With their model looks and photogenic smiles, Spain’s new far-right darlings could easily be mistaken for beauty influencers.
You’d likely never guess that one is a neo-Nazi who branded Jewish people ‘the enemy’, while the other believes life was ‘much better’ under the brutal Franco dictatorship.
These are just two of the extreme views touted by Isabel Peralta, 23, and 25-year-old Ada Lluch respectively.
Sociological and history experts told the Spanish Eye this week that their sudden rise and growing influence online, partly aided by Elon Musk’s X, threatens to wreak havoc in Spanish society, adding that they are ‘genuinely worried about the future’.
It comes after Tesla owner and billionaire Musk ‘liked’ posts by Lluch himself, helping her follower count jump from around 3,000 to well over 300,000 since his takeover of the platform.
Peralta, who is banned from entering Germany after being caught carrying Nazi flags, was suspended from X (formerly Twitter) yet again in February of this year.
She remains active on Telegram, where she has almost 7,000 subscribers. She is also a ‘correspondent’ for a neo-Nazi news outlet and is banned from entering England.
The rise of Lluch, whose views are arguably tame in comparison to Peralta’s, has been nothing short of meteoric.
She went from an unknown university dropout to meeting Donald Trump – twice – and most recently, making her first public speech during the Tommy Robinson-led ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in central London.
The Catalonia native, from Tortosa in Tarragona, told the more than 100,000-strong crowd that European countries were at risk of ‘losing their identities’ due to illegal immigration, before warning of the ‘great demographic replacement’ – a conspiracy theory that falsely claims white European populations are being systematically replaced by non-European, non-white or Muslim immigrants.
‘Aren’t you tired of waking up every single day with the news of yet another innocent woman or child who has been raped, assaulted, or even murdered?’ she asked the crowd.
‘Our nations have been completely invaded and terror has already been unleashed,’ she added, before declaring: ‘We need to start having more babies now.’
She also warned of a future in which daughters might be forced to ‘wear a burqa’, before vowing to ‘make Europe, Europe again!’
When asked by El Pais to define her views earlier this month, she denied they were ‘racist’, insisting she is simply ‘patriotic.’
It’s a far cry from her days spent at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she was studying to become a doctor but dropped out.
She has admitted that she was ‘woke’ and ‘progressive’ at the time, before she moved to the US in 2023 and began dating conservative commentator Joey Mannarino.
Mannarino, whom she married (before separating), is staunchly MAGA, and once tweeted that he would ‘never believe a rape victim again’ after Trump was found civilly liable for the sexual abuse of journalist E Jean Carrol.
During an appearance at a Britain First rally earlier this year, he asked the 600-strong crowd to ‘scream something for Donald J Trump’, before claiming we need to ‘deport the parasites who are raping their way through America, Europe and the United Kingdom.’
It was during Lluch’s relationship with Mannarino that she says she was exposed to and ‘converted from’ so-called ‘woke ideology’.
She also had multiple encounters with Trump, and posted at least two photos with him on her social media channels.
As her popularity grew within far-right circles in the US and Europe, she began to make more extreme statements.
In December 2024, she publicly defended the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, claiming Spain ‘was better under Franco… and every person that lived under his leadership agrees.’
Franco ruled Spain with an iron fist between 1936 and 1975, and is estimated to have slaughtered over 200,000 political enemies – with around 100,000 still unaccounted for due to his system of dumping them in unmarked graves.
In May 2025, Lluch also said she wanted to have an ‘army of children’, and vowed to give up her influencer career if her future husband demanded it.
It came after she branded Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez a ‘narcissistic psychopath’, and Hollywood actor Javier Bardem ‘ret*****’ over his support of Palestine.
Asked if she would join politics herself, Lluch told El Pais: ‘It would be an honour to get involved in politics, but my first priority is to start a family and be a present mother. I believe that is my main calling.
‘I would only fully dedicate myself to politics if I felt I could truly make a difference. I find the current state of Europe unacceptable; if I could do something to change it, I would immediately seize the opportunity… for my future children.’
She said she is ‘a big supporter’ of hard-right party Vox, but is not yet a member.
‘I would probably like to join Vox soon,’ she said, ‘Since I don’t live in Spain full-time, I haven’t done so yet.’
Digital media expert and professor at the University of Barcelona, Juan Diaz Noci, told the Spanish Eye that Lluch’s rise would not have been possible without the support of Musk’s X, where shocking and far-right comments are ‘favoured’.
‘Elon Musk is building up far right figures in Spain and Europe,’ he said.
‘The main platform for far-right views in Spain is X, which has been supporting extreme ideas since he took over the platform and began to support Trump.’
He added: ‘Polarisation gets money, Musk realised early on that extreme positions attract more people to your social media site.’
He said there is a growing ‘radicalisation’ among young people in Spain and Europe due to their growing distrust of ‘legacy media’, which they view as being the ‘voice of the elite.’
He added: ‘Young people right now are going to be worse off than their parents and grandparents and they are angry and disenfranchised.
‘Despite being better educated and knowing multiple languages, they cannot afford a home and fewer jobs are available, they are really frustrated, and many of them want to just break things.’
This frustration, Noci said, makes them more open to supporting extreme parties out of desperation.
‘Many are becoming radicalised,’ he said, ‘I worry for the future if young people continue to feel ignored.
And while more young men are turning to the right, a growing number of young women are too.
‘Ada Lluch and the like are giving simple solutions to very complicated problems, and many fed-up voters are drawn to that.’
While Lluch’s views may be considered extreme by some, they pale in comparison to those of Isabel Peralta.
She is the daughter of high-profile lawyer and TV personality Juan Manuel Medina.
The ex-councillor for the conservative Partido Popular party has disowned her over her views – while her mother, said to be a buddhist living in Lanzarote, is allegedly more sympathetic.
Medina did not respond to the Spanish Eye’s request for comment.
In 2021, Peralta, from Madrid, spoke at an event in the capital that was honouring Spain’s voluntary Division Azul (Blue Division), who fought for Nazi Germany in WWII.
She declared that ‘the enemy will always be the same, albeit with different masks: the Jew.’
She added that Jews were ‘the culprit’ and that ‘communism is a Jewish invention designed to pit workers against each other.’
The anti-Semitic statements sparked a huge backlash from rights groups, who called for legal action on hate speech grounds.
That same year, she used a megaphone to shout ‘death to the invader’ and ‘it’s not migration, it’s an invasion’, during an unplanned anti-immigration protest outside the Moroccan Embassy.
She also pushed the great replacement theory, saying: ‘We are suffering unprecedented racial substitution.’
Meanwhile, a large banner displayed at the protest read: ‘Neither the king, nor the government, nor the European Union will stop Moroccan expansionism. War on the invader.’
The authorities decided to take action and Peralta was charged with inciting hatred, discrimination and violence against a protected group.
She was convicted in April of this year after a court ruled her comments ‘exceeded the boundaries of freedom of political expression.’
But Peralta, who has self-identified as a Falangist, fascist and a ‘national socialist’, appeared unfazed, telling reporters that her year-long jail term ‘didn’t bother her.’
She then quoted Adolf Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels as she refused to retract her statements, saying they were in ‘defence of the homeland’, before giving a Nazi salute upon exiting the hearing.
More recently, she has joined forces with Nucleo Nacional, an ultra-right group that brings together Falangists, Franco admirers and Nazis.
She spoke at a Nucleo Nacional press conference in August, in which the group announced it would be opening a headquarters, with future plans to ‘expand’ across Spain.
Some of Nucleo Nacional’s supporters are suspected to have been among the participants of this summer’s race riots in Torre Pacheco, Murcia.
On her own personal website, she boasts how she is ‘banned in several countries’ and labels herself a ‘national socialist’.
In 2023, she sparked outrage after attending the annual ‘Heritage and Destiny’ gathering, hosted in Samlesbury, Lancashire, by a neo-Nazi publication of the same name.
Dozens of supporters of white nationalist groups were present, including the National Front.
Jeremy Corbyn fumed at the-then Home Secretary Suella Braverman, writing in an open letter that he was ‘gravely concerned’ that Peralta was allowed to enter Britain.
He wrote: ‘Peralta’s reputation precedes her. In March 2022, she was detained at Frankfurt airport for the contents of her suitcase: a swastika flag, neo-Nazi propaganda leaflets and a copy of ‘Mein Kampf’.’
At the same conference this year, Peralta sent a video message, as she is currently banned from travelling to England.
Spanish historian and professor at Madrid Complutense University, Gonzalo Alvarez Chillida, told the Spanish Eye that figures like Peralta should be careful what they wish for.
He said: ‘They will be surprised when the dictatorship is fully established and the freedom to protest against social cutbacks or other policies that harm them disappears, and they can no longer demonstrate against power, as they do now against democratic governments.
‘The example of Putin, who came to power democratically and gradually evolved into a dictatorship, demonstrates this.
‘Similarly, many ultra-right women take for granted that their rights as women will be maintained.
‘Similar to the (not insignificant) minority of Black people who voted for Trump in the United States a year ago, or the larger proportion among Hispanics.’
He added that the current far-right groups in Spain are ‘united in ultranationalism, xenophobia and Islamophobia.’
‘Muslims today occupy the place that Jews occupied 100 years ago, with very similar discourses in both cases, which present them as an existential threat that wants to destroy us,’ he said, ‘and the desire to return to a world of hierarchies that have weakened: whites over blacks, heterosexuals over homosexuals, men over women.
‘For this reason, young men are much more attracted to far-right propaganda than women, even though many of them sympathise with, are active in, and even lead, the new far right.
‘I think many people who support the far right assume that some aspects of the current democratic order will remain, which is completely wrong.’
