Vox chooses a candidate with a neo-Nazi past to head the list of Tarragona for 29-N

BarcelonaVox announced on Wednesday the names heading their lists for the Spanish elections on November 29. Most of the current members of Congress are in the top spots, but there are also nearly twenty new faces. And among them stands out the head of the list for Tarragona, where the far-right has decided to place a candidate with a neo-Nazi past. This is Jordi de la Fuente, a councilor in Sant Adrià de Besòs and current leader of Solidaridad, the Vox union.

De la Fuente was a member of the neo-Nazi party Moviment Social Republicà (MSR), dissolved in 2018, with which he was head of the list in the 2010 Parliament elections, and he also passed through the xenophobic Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC), where he even served as organization secretary in 2016, when Josep Anglada had already left the party. A regular at protests in front of centers for migrant minors and a protagonist of Islamophobic protests such as the one in 2017 against a mosque in Nou Barris, he is currently a Vox councilor in Sant Adrià de Besòs and a deputy in the Barcelona Provincial Council.

Regarding the rest of the Catalan constituencies, in Barcelona, Juanjo Aizcorbe repeats as head of the list and former Ciudadanos member Carina Mejías as number two, and they will be followed by the ultra-right's economic guru, Ignacio Fontcuberta, as reported this Wednesday by ARA. Leading the list for Lleida, Santiago Abascal's party has placed Rafael Villafranca –replacing Eduard Pallerola– and as number one for Girona there will be Ignasi Mulleras, who was already a candidate in 2023.

In the rest of the State, and beyond the expected absences of Javier Ortega Smith and Espinosa de los Monteros –expelled from the party after a tense standoff with the leadership–, Vox has also decided to keep José María Sánchez García on the lists, the deputy who confronted the presidency of Congress during the debate on a proposition regarding historical memory and who in September 2021 called a PSOE parliamentarian a "witch" while she was speaking in the Congress chamber. According to what Ser published this Wednesday, he will be number three for Alicante.