Surprise! Surprise!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citize...ast_membership
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Alternative views and past membership
Xavier Casals, an expert on far-right movements, has described Cs platform as
populist. And another expert in far-right movements, investigative journalist Jordi Borrás, characterized Cs as a "
great magnet for the extreme right"—a trait, he alleged, they share with People's Party. Borrás also highlighted, in the same interview, two facts: Cs was
not only the first political party that made a Parliament request to deprive immigrants of universal health care, but also the only party (along with PP) which refused to condemn the fascist coup d'état that led to the Spanish Civil War. Although Cs identifies its core ideology as progressive,
its campaign videos feature notorious right-leaning socialites, journalists and television personalities such as Carlos Navarro, who is known for having voiced
extremely xenophobic views as well as having displayed
sexist and violent behaviour on television. More recently, another member was expelled after allegedly making
xenophobic and anti-Catalan comments on Twitter.
In 2006, the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya revealed that Rivera was a card-carrying member of the conservative People's Party (PP) between 2002 and 2006, and that he had left the PP only three months before running for election for the Citizen's Party; this was corroborated by El Mundo and El Pa?*s. Despite these revelations, Rivera denied having been a full member of PP and implied that he had voted for the PSOE until recently. Past PP membership is common among Cs members. Former PSC activist Juan Carlos Girauta had joined the PP and became a prolific contributor to conservative journalism from his Libertad Digital column, before becoming a Citizens member and candidate in the 2014 European Election. During his long tenure as Libertad Digital columnist and COPE debater, Girauta expressed
strong sympathies for right-wing Zionism (to the point of calling then-president Zapatero an anti-Semite) and lent credibility to the now discredited book by Victor Far?*as dismissing Socialist politician Salvador Allende as a racist and a Social Darwinist, without clarifying that the quotations about genetic determinism in Allende's doctoral dissertation were themselves quotations from other authors (mostly Cesare Lombroso) or the fact that Allende was highly critical of these conclusions in his thesis, which was later published as a rebuttal to Far?*as' position. Far?*as was later sued for this but Girauta never retracted his statements.
In 2015, a member of the Citizens electoral list for Gijón to the city council and regional elections posted
pro-falangist, pro-Blue Division and pro-Hitler Youth messages on Facebook. Those same elections carried news of
at least five other former card-carrying Falange and/or España 2000 members.
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Eigenlijk zijn dat dus de Catalaans/Spaanse 'mestkevers'
Hoe komt het dat dié wél op uw sympathie - en wellicht méér - kunnen rekenen?
