Time for Pacma
Source: Wikipedia Anti-bullfighting party set for Spanish election breakthrough As the right enlists bullfighters as candidates, animal welfare champions are polling well If the polls and pundits are correct, Spain’s Vox party will achieve its much-prophesied breakthrough in Sunday’s general election, becoming the first far-right grouping to win more than a single seat in parliament since the country embarked on its post-Franco return to democracy. Although Vox’s chances of attracting about 11% of the vote have hogged the headlines , another small party – and one with a markedly different worldview – is also gearing up for a historic day at the ballot box . The animal rights party Pacma, founded 16 years ago to put an end to bullfighting, could win two seats in the congress of deputies, according to the most recent poll by the country’s Centre for Sociological Studies (CIS). Like Vox’s looming breakthrough, Pacma’s arrival in the arena of national pol...