Abstract

MANUCCI, Luca. The shadow of the authoritarian past in the Iberian Peninsula: failures and success of radical right populist parties. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2020, n.67, pp.41-56.  Epub Dec 31, 2020. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2020.67a04.

Since their transition to democracy in the mid-1970s, Spain and Portugal were considered immune to populist radical right (prr) parties. In the last two years, however, the so- -called Iberian exception seems to have come to an end. Long-lasting authoritarian regimes governed both countries, but while Spain transitioned to democracy through a pact between elites that protected members of Franco’s regime from trials and prosecution, Portuguese democracy was the result of a coup started by the armed forces which then evolved into a social revolution. These different patterns of democratization produced different collective memories of the authoritarian past, with Spain that tried to silence its past for over two decades and Portugal celebrating the revolution that ended the Estado Novo. In turn, these different collective memories can contribute to shed a light on the resounding success of Vox at the 2019 elections compared to the more modest but still significant electoral breakthrough of Chega in Portugal.

Keywords : populist radical right; Spain; Portugal; authoritarian past; collective memories..

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