Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, who will be third on the far-right party Vox's list of candidates for the Congress in Madrid, has today proposed banning parties based on their ideology. Speaking on the television program Espejo Público, Spanish channel Antena 3's morning current affairs magazine show and currently the second most-watched in Spain, Espinosa said that "some day" it will be necessary "to look at whether those who don't believe in the unity of Spain or who don't renounce Marxism have the right to be in the political game".
Espinosa, who is also the party's vice-secretary for international relations, says he has voted for PP before, but that "you get over everything, like drugs". In terms of policy, he said his party would strike down the law on historical memory which, among other provisions, condemned the Francoist state and removed still existing symbols from public spaces, recognised the victims on both sides of the conflict, declared the sentences of the military courts void and gave state help for finding those still missing.
He also took aim at specific figures on the left, like Íñigo Errejón (Podemos), whom he described as one of their "most dangerous enemies" since, in his opinion, beyond looking like "a good boy", he has "a radical, anti-Spanish bile" inside.