The exploitation of multicultural conflict by the new extreme valencian right

Abstract

The exploitation of the alleged threat of multiculturalism for coexistence from the political party España 2000 is an obvious symptom of the discourse modernization of the extreme right Valencian. In addition, it is one of the elements for the identification of this typology of political parties.

This article analyzes the exploitation of the multicultural debate by España 2000 by a monument that contained Hindu figures. The party became an actor capable of generating a conflict and influencing the political and media debate in the city of Valencia on immigration, identity and coexistence. We then examine the characteristics of the most prominent testimonies of party leaders through newspaper articles and social media publications applying the Ideological Totalism model formulated by Robert Jay Lifton. The objective is to verify if the España 2000 discourse groups, in a different degree but in a clear way, all the components that make it possible to define it - for the first time in the academic sphere - as it is characteristic of the contemporary extreme right.