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Franco Era Nostalgia
Journalist and writer Nabil Driouch believes that nostalgia for the Franco era is fuelled by a sense among some Spaniards that the present offers neither economic security nor job stability, amid difficulties in finding housing, a precarious labour market, social inequality and declining trust in institutions. This can foster a selective, distorted image of the past that highlights order and stability while overlooking repression and the denial of freedoms. Political polarisation, the spread of reductive narratives on social media and younger generations’ distance from the direct experience of dictatorship all contribute to this view. Yet praising some aspects of the era does not necessarily mean supporting its return. A poll by Spain’s Centre for Sociological Research, published in October 2025, found that the share of respondents who described the years of Franco’s rule as “good” or “very good” had risen to 21.3%, up from 11.2% in 2000; the figure was 61.7% among Vox voters.
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