Vox, a far-right party that bases a good part of its political strategy on populist and confrontational messages, has once again targeted environmental measures with alarmist claims. On this occasion, its secretary general and leader in Catalonia, Ignacio Garriga, has stated that the low-emission zones implemented in some municipalities in Catalonia "attack equality" and create "first-class and second-class citizens".
Garriga made these statements during a protest called by Vox this Saturday in Barcelona, where several vehicles gathered in front of the Columbus Monument, **causing traffic disruptions on one of the city's main thoroughfares**. The mobilization is part of the far-right party's frontal opposition to emissions reduction policies and the fight against climate change.
In his address to the media, the Vox leader described low-emission zones as "unfair, classist, and revenue-generating", a common rhetoric in the party's discourse, which usually presents environmental or social measures as attacks on individual freedoms. He also announced that his party is filing appeals in court with the aim of halting the implementation of these initiatives.Garriga's statements align with Vox's discourse, which systematically rejects environmental policies promoted by local and regional administrations and by Pedro Sánchez's government, resorting to simplified and polarizing messages that go against scientific consensus on the necessary urgency of tackling climate change.
