When the party is over
Explaining the rise of the Spanish far-right Salf
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6448522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Javier Padilla (0000-0003-4026-9795, City University of New York), Álvaro Canalejo-Molero (0000-0001-7980-0702, University of Lucerne), Alberto López Ortega (0000-0003-2765-7232, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-1680 • E-ISSN: 2053-1680 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20531680251357602 |
| OpenAlex | W4412825189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Can a second far-right party succeed in a country where the radical right was, until recently, absent? Spain’s 2024 European Parliament elections provided a striking answer with the emergence of SALF (“Let the Party Be Over”), a far-right anti-politics platform that captured 4.6% of the vote in its electoral debut, outperforming Podemos and the major regional parties. Through a comprehensive analysis of individual-level data from approximately 38,000 respondents across eleven surveys, we provide the first systematic assessment of SALF’s voters and compare them to other Spanish constituencies. First, our findings reveal an intriguing paradox: while SALF voters self-identify as more centrist than supporters of VOX (Spain’s main far-right party), their positions on substantive policies are similarly extreme. In contrast, SALF’s success stems from a distinctive combination of dissatisfaction with democracy and nontraditional media consumption patterns, especially among young male voters. Notably, while VOX’s earlier rise was primarily driven by Spain’s territorial tensions, SALF’s emergence signals a deeper phenomenon: profound disillusionment with Spain’s political system among specific segments of society
Far right · Political science · Politics · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology
Vox
Log Odds and the Interpretation of Logit Models
The Precarious Generation
A gendered far-right wave among young voters in Western Europe
Young People’s Critical Politicization in Spain in the Great Recession
Explaining the end of Spanish exceptionalism and electoral support for Vox
When far right parties compete
The fight on the right
Strategies of mainstream parties towards their right-wing populist challengers
Challenging business as usual? The rise of new parties in Spain in times of crisis
Marginalisation or legitimation? Mainstream party positioning on immigration and support for radical right parties
Populism and new radical-right parties
New Alliances
Staying in the First League
Blurred positions
The Bukele Model
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society
Estimating parties' left-right positions
Instrumentally Inclusive
Using Predictions and Marginal Effects to Compare Groups in Regression Models for Binary Outcomes
Logistic Regression
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |