National Democracy
Democracia Nacional (DN) is a far-right Spanish political party, created in 1995, which has never achieved parliamentary representation. He is a member of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom.
Ideology
He has been labeled as a Lepenista (from Jean-Marie), a neo-Nazi and framed in the paradigm of the New European Right. His ideology includes an anti-immigration discourse with xenophobic content. In territorial politics, they defend unity of Spain and a Spanish nationalism, opposing peripheral nationalisms. In European politics they have defended a clearly eurosceptic position, proposing the exit of the Schengen Area and the Euro, even going so far as to consider that the European Union should disappear.[citation required]
History
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The formation was formed in January 1995 by, among others, former militants from CEDADE, the Spanish Juntas and Acción Radical. Juan Peligro, leader of the Spanish Juntas, was its first president.
Later, Manuel Canduela, singer and founding member of the musical group División 250 (included in the RAC/Oi! style) and judicially convicted for his activity, became director of Democracia Nacional in 2004, after serving in its section youth, Democracia Nacional Joven (DNJ), and his time in various organizations, such as the Valencian group Acción Radical, outlawed after his involvement in the murder of Guillem Agulló, perpetrated by one of his sympathizers, A year after Canduela's access to the party leadership led to the abandonment of prominent militants and leading cadres, in disagreement with Canduela.
Controversies
DN's political discourse has led to multiple complaints for xenophobia and racism. In 2007, the media covered a controversial poster for this party, in which several white sheep were shown on the colors of a Spanish flag, while one of them kicked a black sheep out. Similar propaganda techniques had already been used by the Swiss SVP and the German DVU.
In November 2007, the magazine Interviú published a report that included a hidden recording of a concert organized by the youth section of the party in which both the public and members of the party were heard. some groups invited by the party utter shouts such as "Heil Hitler", "Sieg Heil" or "Duce".
Similarly, on November 11, 2007, Carlos Palomino, a young man linked to the anti-fascist movement, was murdered at the hands of soldier Josué Estébanez, who was on his way to a demonstration against immigration organized by Democracia Nacional. he disassociated himself from the murder, but years later, with the murderer convicted, he campaigned for his freedom with the phrase "defending your life is not a crime".
In 2008, the party denounced the director of the newspaper Odiel Información for having accused it of being a Nazi party. The sentence in the first instance, appealed by the party, denied any crime and endorsed, according to his political messages and his actions, said qualification.
In July 2013, he joined the La Falange, Alianza Nacional, Nudo Patriota Español and the Movimiento Católico Español initiative La España en Marcha (LEM); In the Diada of that same year, members of LEM staged some altercations at the Blanquerna Cultural Center of the Generalitat of Catalonia, after which there were twelve detainees.
In 2009, after a complaint filed by National Democracy against Odiel Información and its director for an alleged crime against honor, the courts acquitted the latter, endorsing calling the party a "Nazi".
In addition, David Duke, a former member of the KKK and white supremacist, has been invited to give a conference in Madrid in November 2007.
He has also celebrated solstices and has approached sectors of the extreme right, celebrating the 20-N together with Blas Piñar, former leader of Fuerza Nueva, or José Luis Corral, leader of Acción Juvenil Española.[citation required]
They are closely related to Golden Dawn. In this sense, in 2014 they copied the initiative of the Greek organization by announcing that they would distribute food only to needy Spaniards.
Elections
The first elections that Democracia Nacional ran for were the European ones in 1999. Francisco Pérez Corrales was in charge of the party. They obtained 8,053 votes (0.04%). Subsequently, in the 2000 general elections, they stood for the elections in coalition with the Murcian National Labor Party (PNT), the Republican Social Movement (MSR) and Vértice Español, under the name of Plataforma España 2000 and with Francisco Pérez Corrales again. ahead of the candidacy. They obtained 9,562 votes (0.04%). In the general elections of March 14, 2004, he obtained 15,180 votes, 0.06% of the votes cast. In the general elections of March 9, 2008, he obtained fewer votes: 12,588 votes (0.05%).
In the 2007 municipal elections, he obtained three council positions: one in Tardajos (Burgos province), where he reached a government pact with the Popular Party, and two in Herradón de Pinares (Ávila province).
Democracia stood in the 2009 European elections, with Manuel Canduela as head of the list. It obtained 9,950 votes (0.06% of the votes for candidacies), being the 20th most voted candidacy. In the Community of Madrid it obtained 2,272 votes (0.10%), being the fourteenth candidacy.
Since July 2013, together with Alianza Nacional, Nudo Patriota Español, Movimiento Católico Español and Democracia Nacional, it joined the initiative La España en Marcha (LEM).
In the 2014 European elections, National Democracy obtained 13,079 votes, 0.08% of the total.
In the 2015 Spanish municipal elections, Democracia Nacional obtained a councilor in Cuenca de Campos (Valladolid) reaping 16.67% of the total votes. In addition, in the Valencian town of Benicarló (Castellón), he was on the verge of entering the consistory, obtaining 351 votes (3.12%). On the other hand, it did not achieve outstanding results in the provincial capitals such as: Castellón, León, Huelva or Valladolid.
In the 2015 Spanish general elections, he obtained 1,685 votes, 0.01% of the votes cast. It only appeared in seven constituencies: Ciudad Real, León, Soria, Valladolid, Almería, Huelva, Castellón.[ citation required]
Ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections in Spain, DN ran as part of the electoral coalition "ADÑ Identidad Española" together with Falange Española de las JONS (FE de las JONS), Alternativa Española (AES) and La Phalanx (FE).
Present and future
National Democracy (DN), Spanish Alternative (AES), Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS) and FE-La Falange.
After ADÑ Identidad Española and none of its component parties did not get representation in the 2019 European Parliament elections (Spain), seventeen regional assemblies and Cortes Generales and the zero possibility of obtaining representation, in the face of the elections to the Galician Parliament of 2020, the elections to the Basque Parliament of 2020, the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia of 2021 and the elections to the Madrid Assembly of 2021, decide not to appear.
As of 2020, these political parties have agreed that they will only run in municipal elections where they have a chance of obtaining representation, not in other elections are presented.[citation needed]