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Santiago Abascal

Role
Spanish Vox leader
Lived
1976–
Country of activity
Spain Spain
Strongest axis
Nationalism 83%

Santiago Abascal is a Spanish politician who left the People's Party to found Vox in 2013 and has led it since 2014. A member of the Congress of Deputies since 2019, he campaigns on immigration limits, Spanish unity and lower taxes.

In the 12 Axes register, Santiago Abascal leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Nationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.

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The twelve axes

Where Santiago Abascal sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

FederalUnitary 83%

Centralized

Wants to recentralize powers from Spain's autonomous communities

DemocraticAutocratic

Centrist

Sits in Congress; wants to ban separatist parties

SecurityFreedom

Centrist

Law-and-order platform; won court case against 2020 lockdown

Diplomacy

InternationalismNationalism 83%

Nationalist

Led Patriots.eu; sovereigntist toward the European Union

Militarist 68%Pacifist

Military-Focused

Vox supports increasing military spending

Assimilationist 83%Multiculturalist

Monoculturalist

Calls for deporting all illegal immigrants; prefers Hispanic American migrants

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize 83%

Capitalist

2023 program proposed two income tax rates, 15% and 25%

PlannedMarkets 68%

Markets

Backs labor-law liberalization and lower taxes

Isolationism 68%Globalism

Limited Trade

Platform includes protectionist stances and criticizes globalization

Society

IrreligiousReligious 83%

Religious

Vox promotes a Catholicism-inspired national culture

ProgressiveTraditional 83%

Traditionalist

Wants to repeal gender-violence and historical memory laws

AccelerationBioconservative

Neutral

No distinct position on technology

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Planned – Markets

On Planned – Markets, Santiago Abascal is at Markets 68%. The register median is Planned 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Security – Freedom

On Security – Freedom, Santiago Abascal is at balanced 50%, almost the register median of balanced 50%.

Who is closest in the register

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Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: Vox España, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].