Published by Politico.

The far right has made the battle against ‘supremacist feminism’ a key part of its message.

MADRID — There’s a new force in Spanish politics and it has its sights set on women’s rights.

Support for feminism has snowballed in recent years, but now there’s a backlash led by the far-right Vox party, whose success in a regional election in Andalusia has propelled it into the mainstream.

The party recently posted a video onlinethat shows women’s rights activists shouting “abortion is sacred” in the parliament and a politician from the leftist Podemos party bemoaning the situation of women in modern Spain and their vulnerability to violence at the hands of men. After each clip, female Vox supporters respond by saying: “Don’t speak on my behalf.” The video ends with the words: “I am a woman and I don’t want your ideological burqa.”

Andalusia has become the epicenter of Spain’s gender debate…(See article)