SMITH & Wesson revolver-owning Spanish far-right leader Santiago Abascal likes to trot around on horseback spouting his firebrand rhetoric.
Seen as his nation’s Donald Trump, he is keen to wrest Gibraltar from British hands and has called for an end to the “Muslim occupation” of Spain.
The Vox Party leader was heralded as Spain’s potential political kingmaker before Sunday’s general election delivered a hung parliament.
Vox actually lost seats compared to 2019 yet it’s still Spain’s third biggest party, attracting around three million votes.
The snap election was called by prime minister Pedro Sánchez after his Socialist Workers’ Party did badly in May’s local elections.