From Puerto Rico, Antonio Carmona Báez teaches Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the The Netherlands and is a member of the Dutch section of the Fourth International, Socialist Alternatief Politiek.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.