The reproach to the far right: rallies yes, children no

Having children as a strategy: the reproach that divides the far right

A flag, a loudspeaker and a banner. The scene repeats every time the far-right space calls people onto the street, and the gesture has a cost, has a photo and, on paper, zero translation into new votes. The objection raised from within that same space is different: if the goal is a country project decades ahead, the banner yields less than the cradle.

The reasoning is simple. A demonstration disperses the next day; a child does not. It is argued that the demographic growth of a political project depends more on internal birth rate than on any mobilization, and that attending a territorial rally contributes zero while raising several children would have a real and measurable effect.

Is it true that the leaders of Núcleo Nacional have no children?

The answer is nuanced. Some maintain that several figures of the party do have offspring —Enrique Lemus and Alberto Pugilato are cited— and that others, such as Iván Rico Olivares and Isabel Peralta, do not because of their age. The objection then shifts to the role of women within these organizations: if the like-minded female membership is scarce, the reproductive project does not get off the ground no matter how many rallies are called.

Why are age and birth rate mixed in this debate?

Because the demographic argument clashes with biography. It is recalled that children used to be had in one's early twenties and it is asked whether that is still the declared ideal: young and healthy families. When the most visible figures of the movement are placed in their thirties, the reproach becomes uncomfortable for whoever makes it.

In between, offshoots appear that have little to do with demography: competition for reproduction in the animal kingdom, the conquest of space as insurance for the survival of the species. The disconcerting fact is this: of all the proper names thrown on the table, none is accompanied by a birth figure. Only flags and ages.