"The enlightened gentlemen of Europe are always coming up with new things," thundered Socorro Cuevas, 63, a long-time farmer who is the far-right Vox party's agriculture councillor in the central municipality of Socuellamos."
"A farmer cannot dedicate himself to agriculture," he told AFP as tractors rumbled past and dogs snoozed on the ground at a party supporter's farm. "You have to tell them what you do every day, what you prune, if you collect the vine shoots, if you plough, if you fertilise... freedom no longer exists."
"'Globalist policies' such as the Green Deal and the 2015 Paris climate agreement 'strangle our agricultural system', said Ricardo Chamorro, a Vox MP who sits on the Spanish parliament's agriculture committee."
Vox has positioned climate skepticism as a core message to win rural votes by framing EU environmental rules as dictatorial and damaging to agriculture. Campaigners and local officials argue that measures like the EU Green Deal and Paris agreement impose burdensome reporting and restrictions that limit farmers' autonomy and everyday practices. Rural supporters describe a loss of freedom and increased interference in routine farm work. Vox's approach mirrors similar right-wing movements across Europe that politicize climate policy along right-left lines. Spain experienced an extremely hot summer, providing context for the contested climate debate.
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