Spanish Alternative (Spanish: Alternativa Española, AES) (listenⓘ) is a far-right political party in Spain. It describes itself as "social Christian and cross-sectional".[9] Its Secretary General is the lawyer and businessman Rafael López-Diéguez, former member of the far-right New Force, active formation during the Transition and managed by his father-in-law, the historic leader Blas Piñar, who was named honorary president of AES, a post which he held until his death in January 2014.[10]
History
Spanish Alternative was founded with the support of Fuerza Nueva Editorial; it was in its registered office where the party had its first headquarters. AES was founded in 21 of April 2003. According to its General Secretary, AES aroused "because the PP betrayed its Catholic voters and the Spanish people as a whole".[11] It maintained contacts with the party Navarrese and Spanish Right (DNE).[12]
Ideology
AES holds its program declaration and its public action in four principles: the "defense of life" (opposition to any type of abortion), the "pro-family", "Christian roots" and the "unity of Spain". When the party has to place itself on the political spectrum, AES defines itself as a cross-sectional party that is positioned on the right in moral matter and on the left in social and economic matter.[11] Thus, AES considers homosexual adoption to be an attack on the family and is against same-sex marriages and even same-sex civil unions.[13] It has been described as akin to "fundamentalist Catholicism".[14][15]
Spanish Alternative takes a hard line on the Autonomic State by proposing to abolish the autonomous communities.[16] To the party's mind, the State of Autonomies is unviable and unsustainable because it constitutes an economic catastrophe, because it has been the main contributory factor to the present crisis, because it promotes the breach of the national integrity and cohesion in its continuing development and because it entails unequal rights among Spaniards depending on their place of birth or residence.[17] However, AES would keep the provincial privileges of Navarre and the Basque Country.[18]
Although AES doesn't use symbols of Franco's regime,[10] the party has been described as neo-Francoist as well as being considered to be inheritor of New Force.[3]
^"Alternativa Española defiende "valores sociales basados en las raíces cristianas"". La Verdad (in Spanish). 6 March 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2017. Como «una opción transversal de orientación social cristiana» define la propuesta de Alternativa Española (AES) su portavoz nacional, Francisco Torres García, que participó en sendos actos electorales en Elche y Alicante
^ abCasals i Meseguer, 2009, p. 252. «Finalmente, del ámbito fuerzanuevista surgió también una nueva formación en el 2003, Alternativa Española [AES], que se desvinculó oficialmente de discursos nostálgicos. Su líder, Rafael López-Diéguez (yerno de Piñar), definió así su meta: «[AES] debería ser el partido que obligara al PP a no deslizarse hacia ese centro en el que confluyen todos y por lo tanto carente de toda ideología y principios, salvo el de ‘todo vale’»»
^ abVaquero Oroquieta, Fernando José (2005). "Entrevista a Rafael López–Dieguez: la conquista de un espacio". Arbil. Vol. 97. ISSN1697-1388. Retrieved 20 October 2017. Si tuviera que definir AES con los estereotipos de la sociología política actual, estaríamos posicionados a la derecha del PP en materia moral y a su izquierda en materia social y económica. En definitiva, somos un partido transversal
^""AES y el fracaso": Esta es la carta que han recibido los militantes de AES". Diario ya (in Spanish). 29 March 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2017. Pero pese a nuestro interés de aunar esfuerzos y el rechazo de Vox a construir una alternativa, la unión por el momento desafortunadamente se ha vuelto imposible al haber confirmado recientemente el Sr. Abascal que se reafirma sobre la legitimidad de las uniones homosexuales, para nosotros uno de los principios no negociables
^Alonso y Kaltwasser, 2014, pp. 3-4. «At the same time, there is also a traditional extreme right in Spain, represented by myriad Falangist parties, by the openly Francoist party Fuerza Nueva (New Force), founded by Blas Piñar in 5 1976 and which experienced relative—though ephemeral—success in 1979, and by the new party Alternativa Española (Spanish Alternative). These parties share a common worldview that is clearly totalitarian»
^Büttner, 2011, p. 184. «Parties like Alternativa Española and Movimiento Católico Español link up with the Catholic-fundamentalist spectrum»
^Alternativa Española. "¿Está usted de acuerdo con la supresión de las Autonomías?"(PDF). alternativaespanola.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2017. En la certeza de que el actual Estado de las Autonomías no sólo es inviable sino que además resulta insostenible; que constituye una lacra económica; que ha sido elemento coadyuvante fundamental -como factor propio- de la actual crisis, que en su permanente desarrollo impulsa la ruptura de la integridad y la cohesión nacional, que conlleva la desigualdad de derechos entre los españoles en función de su lugar de nacimiento o residencia
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