Workers' Front (Spain)

Workers' Front (Spanish: Frente Obrero, FO) is a Spanish political party. The party was founded as a mass organization by the anti-revisionist PML(RC) in October 2018 and registered as a separate political party in March 2019.

Not to be confused with Frente Obrero (Nicaragua) and the Workers' Front of Catalonia.
Workers' Front
Frente Obrero
AbbreviationFO
LeaderRoberto Vaquero
Founded13 March 2019
HeadquartersCalle Gascó Oliag 6, PTA 42. 46010 Valencia
NewspaperUNIÓN
Ideology
Political positionSyncretic
Party flag
Website
https://frenteobrero.es/

History

The Workers' Front was established on October 14, 2018, at the Ateneo de Madrid as a front organization of the PML(RC).[1] Subsequently, the Workers' Front expanded to several cities in Spain, such as La Coruña, León, Ponferrada, Zaragoza, and Cádiz.[2]

On June 12, 2022, their first congress was held. During the congress the decision to become a political party was approved by the members. Representatives from other organizations, such as the Polisario Front, spoke during the congress.[3]

Ideology

Despite being strongly connected with the PML(RC), the FO is not explicitly communist. Their political ideology is a syncretic combination of left-wing economic positions and usually right-wing and far-right social viewpoints.[4]

In their program A Spain for the Workers, they defend national sovereignty, Hispanic identity, free university education, the nationalization of strategic economic sectors, energy sovereignty, nuclear energy, increasing the minimum wage, supporting the rural sector, promoting birth rates, creating more public housing, introducing rent control and limiting immigration.[5]

They oppose capitalism, the European Union, NATO, surrogacy, feminism, deindustrialization, queer ideology, the Trans Law, positive discrimination, islamization,[6] cosmopolitanism and political correctness.

Criticism

The party has been criticized by other organizations as transphobic, reactionary and racist, as well as compared (negatively) to the radical right-wing party Vox.[7][8] It has also been accused of giving credit to the Great Replacement theory.[9]

In 2023 FO was accused of having received money from the Algerian government by Euromagreb. This was later denied by the party.[10]

Elections

The FO participated in elections for the first time in the 2023 Spanish local elections. They ran in Villalba de los Arcos, Santa Margalida, Mislata, and Mandayona, winning one seat in Mandayona.

Election results
2023 Spanish local elections
Municipality Votes % Seats
Villalba de los Arcos 27 7.6% 0
Santa Margalida 100 1.8% 0
Mislata 255 1.1% 0
Mandayona 42 21.6% 1

The FO then contested the 2023 general election, fielding candidates in 50 of the 52 constituencies.[11] They received 46,605 (0,19%) votes, but no seats.

See also

References
  1. "Presentación del comité pro-Frente Obrero España" (PDF). UNION. October 2018. p. 6.
  2. "LA MARCHA DEL FRENTE OBRERO" (PDF). UNION. January 2018. p. 10.
  3. I CONGRESO DEL FRENTE OBRERO, retrieved 2023-07-09
  4. "Return of the Old Left: A Look at the Spanish Worker's Front". europeanconservative.com. 2023-03-25. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  5. "PROGRAMA". Frente Obrero España (in Spanish). 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  6. "The Workers' Front revives the «they will not pass» warning that «Islamism wants to conquer Spain»". The Objective (in Spanish). 2023-07-19.
  7. "Frente Obrero, un discurso político homofóbico y racista que promueve la división de la clase trabajadora". La Izquierda Diario - Red internacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  8. "El partido de los escraches a Sánchez y Podemos se presenta a las elecciones por primera vez en Castilla y León". El Español (in Spanish). 2023-06-21. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  9. https://aldescubierto.org/2023/02/03/desmontando-las-mentiras-de-roberto-vaquero-y-la-ultraderecha-sobre-la-inmigracion/
  10. https://www.atalayar.com/en/articulo/politics/frente-obrero-denies-being-in-the-service-of-algeria-and-having-received-money-from-the-north-african-country/20230720104111188485.html
  11. "BOLETÍN OFICIAL DEL ESTADO" (PDF). JUNTAS ELECTORALES PROVINCIALES. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
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