Núcleo Nacional vs Frente Obrero: membership numbers nobody can count
With no official figures, the rivalry between Spain's Núcleo Nacional and Frente Obrero plays out through spying accusations and social media. Are there any real members at all?
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Which group has more members: Núcleo Nacional or Frente Obrero?
Which of the two Spanish far-right formations attracts more members? The question, which circulates in political circles, has no simple answer. There are no reliable headcounts, no official figures, and everything said about it swings between suspicion and paranoia.
Infiltration and background noise
One line of thought holds that both groups are packed with agents from the CNI (Spain's National Intelligence Centre). Another, more conspiratorial one, points to foreign intelligence services. The result is that the difference between actual members and social media trinc gets buried. One claim keeps coming up: the group with the biggest online presence is not the one that shows up on the street.
The distrust is mutual. Some accuse the leaders of spreading content copied from the United States; others reply that the structure leaks cops like a sieve. In that climate, any number is suspect. If everyone is an agent, real membership is zero; and even so, the security apparatuses would keep arguing about whom to spy on.
Which of the two Spanish far-right formations attracts more members? The question, which circulates in political circles, has no simple answer. There are no reliable headcounts, no official figures, and everything said about it swings between suspicion and paranoia.
Infiltration and background noise
One line of thought holds that both groups are packed with agents from the CNI (Spain's National Intelligence Centre). Another, more conspiratorial one, points to foreign intelligence services. The result is that the difference between actual members and social media trinc gets buried. One claim keeps coming up: the group with the biggest online presence is not the one that shows up on the street.
The distrust is mutual. Some accuse the leaders of spreading content copied from the United States; others reply that the structure leaks cops like a sieve. In that climate, any number is suspect. If everyone is an agent, real membership is zero; and even so, the security apparatuses would keep arguing about whom to spy on.
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