![]() ![]() Vox leader Santiago Abascal has said it supports same-sex civil unions but not marriage, and is against LGBT activism even though he said it has “many gays and lesbians” in its ranks. “Those intolerant (of the LGBT community) had lacked a voice that would represent them. ![]() “Vox has broken the consensus,” said Ruben Lopez, head of the Observatory for anti-LGBTphobia in Madrid. Some of its politicians have come out as gay and married their partners. Since the 2005 approval of the same-sex marriage bill by the parties of the left, center-left and center-right, even the main conservative People’s Party (PP) which vehemently opposed it has changed tack, approving various bills in defense of LGBT rights. It now hopes to enhance its clout in Sunday’s new batch of elections, and in its hunt for votes has shifted the focus of its attacks away from Catalonia’s independence drive and on to the LGBT community. The nationalist, anti-immigration Vox won about 10 percent of the votes in a national election last month to become the first far-right party with a significant number of lawmakers since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. ![]() In the campaign for this Sunday’s local, regional and EU elections, Vox has pledged to curtail gay pride parades, heaped ridicule on diversity lessons it wants to scrap in schools and has even drawn parallels between homosexuality and bestiality. FILE PHOTO: Santiago Abascal, leader of far-right party VOX, attends the first session of parliament following a general election in Madrid, Spain, May 21, 2019. ![]()
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