A report links the Empty Spain platform with left-wing ideology, despite its attempt to distance itself

The vindication of national identity and regionalism coexist in the platforms of CyL, Extremadura, Aragón, C-LM and Andalusia

MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A report carried out by four political scientists and researchers from the University of Salamanca places the political platform of the Empty Spain in an ideological current "slightly" located closer to the left-wing space, despite its attempts to distance itself from one side or the other with the objective of behaving as a hinge party in minority governments.

It is a work called "multidisciplinary study of empty Spain: retrospective and prospective", which was presented this Tuesday by the Fundación Alternativas and its four creators: Alvaro Sánchez-García, researcher in Political Geography and Rural-Urban Division; Pablo González, researcher in Political Behavior and Social Networks; Emma Turiño González, researcher in Gender, Democracy and Ideology; Rubén Cuéllar, researcher in Political Communication, Media and Polarization.

In its conclusions, the report ensures that the political platform of the Empty Spain intends to move away from the left-right opposition for strategic reasons, "to reach the largest possible number of voters in the growth phase." The ultimate goal is, according to what they point out, to place the Emptied Spain as a hinge party, which is capable of influencing the policies of governments in parliamentary minority.

However, these four researchers from the University of Salamanca link Emptied Spain with "highly interventionist policies by the State, and therefore, located slightly closer to the progressive space."

Likewise, the study explains that the Emptied Spain is outside the claim of a collective or national identity, for which it thus differentiates itself from regionalisms and peripheral nationalisms, until now co-protagonists of regional and national politics.

Of course, the researchers see certain programmatic meeting points between the two ideological spaces, especially in communities such as Castilla y León, Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha or Andalucía, "where to a greater or lesser extent there was a settled regionalism and that already had some of the measures required by the Empty Spain".

All in all, the report points out that the social and political discourse of the Empty Spain, with respect to the last two decades, "has found part of its legitimacy in the empirical and technical evidence coming from the universities or in the militancy of the academics in the denunciation and the reversal proposals of the problems of the rural environment".