Amid right-wing protests in Spain, founder of Spanish right-wing ‘Vox Party’ Alejo Vidal-Quadras was shot and subsequently taken to the hospital.

Right-Wing Spanish Politician Shot and Hospitalized Amid Nationwide Protests

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Amid right-wing protests in Spain, founder of Spanish right-wing ‘Vox Party’ was shot and subsequently taken to the hospital where he is reported to be in stable condition.

Alejo Vidal-Quadras is the former vice president of the European parliament and the former head of the conservative People’s Party (PP) in Catalonia. He has also worked for decades as a professor of radiation physics. In 2014 he joined the Vox Party, a nationalist conservative party that opposes unchecked immigration, feminism, and wasteful spending. He left the party shortly after founding it due to a failed election.

Vidal-Quadras, 78, was strolling down Nunez de Balboa street in the Salamanca district of Madrid around 1:30 PM Thursday when he was shot in the face point-blank from two meters away. The bullet passed through his jaw, leaving him wounded but in stable condition and “without life-threatening risk,” according to the hospital.

Spanish news outlet El Pais reported that two men on a black Yamaha motorbike carried out the shooting. An unidentified man wearing a bike helmet attempted to assassinate the politician and then fled on the back of his accomplice’s bike. A witness claims they saw the same man standing outside the Vida-Quadras house earlier in the day, who began to follow the politician when he came back from mass.

Vidal-Quadras himself suggested to the police that his attack may have been carried out by actors angry with his opposition to Iran and its interests. The politician has a history of working with the Iranian opposition in exile, which the Iranian government is hostile toward. In Jan. 2023, Vidal-Quadras received sanctions from the Iranian Foreign Ministry as did others who had connections to the exiled group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.

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The investigation of who shot the politician has therefore been taken over by a special homicide unit and information officials, according to the police. The King of Spain condemned the attack in a message sent to Vidal-Quadras.

Spain has been experiencing a wave of right-wing protests against acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a socialist who is accused by the right of using amnesty for hundreds of Catalan activists facing legal actions in order to maintain his power.

On Tuesday, about 7,000 protestors gathered in front of the headquarters of Patrido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE) in Madrid. On Thursday, the PSOE formed an alliance with Catalan separatist party Junts to form a new government to the chagrin of nationalist and monarchist factions.

A law giving amnesty to prosecuted individuals involved in Catalonia’s secession attempt is what pushed the deal forward. The deal essentially encourages Catalan separatists to make another attempt at secession, promising turmoil for Spain and its unity as a nation.

Politicians affiliated with the conservative People’s Party (PP) condemned Sanchez, who they described as a “danger for Spanish constitutional democracy” and the “democratic madness” that is his amnesty plan. “The social unrest is the fault of [Pedro Sánchez],” said PP affiliate Nunez Feijoo.

Leader of the right-wing Vox Party Santiago Abascal called for a “permanent, constant and growing mobilization” against the amnesty ruling and told the police to ignore the “illegal” orders from the government to suppress protests. Bankruptcy

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