Spanish radical right's discourse on the environmental issue: political polarization and cultural battle

In recent years, several trends have converged in the European politics: the levels of polarization of our democracies are continuously increasing, issues such as the environment are gaining prominence on the public agenda and the cultural battle is reactivated around these new issues.

The study of the attitude and discourse of the radical right on the environmental issue helps us to understand the referred dynamics of polarization and cultural struggle, being the radical right parties the privileged actors of this new context.

We will study the main party of the Spanish radical right, Vox, starting from a content analysis of its leaders' discourse that seeks to locate the keys to their positioning on the environmental issue as well as to analyze the mechanisms used to build cultural hegemony and its implications at the level of polarization of the political space.