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- The party’s over electoral program for the European elections: the measures proposed by Alvise Pérez
The Official State Gazette (BOE) gave a surprise by publishing on May 14 the proclaimed candidacies for the European elections that will be held next June 9. Of the 39 lists presented, 33 made the cut and, among them, is the formation ‘The party is over‘, with Alvise Perez (pseudonym of ‘Luis’ in Italian), far-right activistas a leader.
After presenting, according to Alvise, 150,000 citizen signatures as endorsement (the minimum required is 15,000), Pérez’s candidacy aims to obtain representation in the European Parliament, while shielding himself as an MEP and stealing a few thousand votes from Vox, to the displeasure of Santiago Abascal. In fact, the polls carried out by the CIS and Cluster17 give this party a sixth position in voting intention with an achievement of two deputies.
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This “spreader of hoaxes, for outsidersor tireless fighter of the darkest truths and scourge of politicians, for the faithful“, as the journalist from The confidential Itziar Reyerohas almost half a million followers on Telegram who endorse the discourse of this anti-system who came to the media spotlight as a tweeter.
What did Alvise Pérez do before becoming a politician?
Luis Perez Fernandez, which is his real name, was born in Seville on February 26, 1990, being the youngest of four brothers. He studied a degree in Political Science and Public Administration by the National University of Distance Education (UNED). In 2012 she traveled to Leeds and began working in the communications department of the Cervantes Institute.
At the political level, He joined as a UPyD volunteer, the party founded by Rosa Díez and now disappeared, since she considered that “it was the only party at the national level that could break the two-party system.” During his stay in Leeds he became an international delegate of Liberal Youth, the youth wing of the Liberal Democrats. Returning to Spain, in 2017, joined Ciudadanoswhere he served as chief of staff of the parliamentary group in the Valencian Cortes, led by Toni Cantó, until In 2019 he starts working independently.
Pérez studied politics and worked at the Cervantes Institute before joining Ciudadanos. He is known for his controversies against politicians like Carmena, Ábalos or Illa
Since then has focused all its activity on social networks, specifically on Between his most famous controversies those carried out against politicians of the caliber of Manuela Carmena, Oscar Puente, José Luis Ábalos o Salvador Illa or the journalist Ana Pastor.
