Alvise Pérez, new ‘ultra’ star from Spain, enters EU Parliament to ‘destroy the system’

Popular on social media among Span’s far-right, Luis ‘Alvise Pérez’ achieved what the polls had forecast in Sunday’s European elections polls, his ‘ultra’ party the Se acabó la fiesta (The party is over), making history by winning three seats in the European Parliament, by deploying disruptive rhetoric that captivated his 800,000 voters disillusioned with mainstream Spanish politics.

The victory for Se Acabó la Fiesta has been at the cost to the far-right party VOX, currently the third largest party in the Spanish Parliament.

Though he left them a few years ago, Vox led by Santiago Abascal, still managed to double its representatives to the European Parliament,  from three, in 2019, winning six in last night’s elections.

“I’m not coming to reform anything, I’m coming to blow up the system,” expressed Pérez, a 34-year-old political analyst and consultant from Seville.

Who in his own words is dedicated to “persecuting corruption and criminals.”

“Spain has become the party of criminals, of the corrupt, mercenaries, pedophiles and rapists,” said Pérez on Sunday evening.

His party came sixth after Partido Popular (PP/EPP), who won the most seats in Sunday’s election, only by a narrow margin, then socialist party (PSOE/S&D), the far-right VOX party, Sumar, junior member of the coalition government with the PSOE, and the far-left Podemos party, EFE reported.

His surprising and strong entry into Spanish and European politics has emerged as a significant phenomenon, drawing keen analysis from political scientists across the Iberian Peninsula.

Pérez claims that in just four days he managed to get 136,000 signatures of support, much more than the 15,000 required, to be able to participate in the European elections. Word of mouth together with his presence on social media did the job.

During his campaign he toured many cities across Spain in a black van, distributing by hand up to two million voting ballots for his candidacy, easily identifiable by the group’s logo: a squirrel with the mask from the movie ‘V for Vendetta..’

The system must be “destroyed”

The ‘main squirrel’ as he likes to call himself, claims to be a rebel against “corruption and party politics (partitocracia),” and has promised his followers that with his entry into politics “the party is over” for “criminals”, among them, in his view, Pedro Sánchez.

“Don’t ask me to make them resign. I don’t want that, because then they flee to the Dominican Republic. Here we want to put the corrupt, pedophiles and criminals in prison,” he recently controversially said.

In his opinion, “the system is too corrupt to be reformed” and “must be destroyed with a sledgehammer, the shit thrown out of the structure.”

He knows how to play  the powerful anti-establishment symbolism of ‘V for Vendetta’, the famous film starring Natalie Portman and based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore.

His tough political stance knows no limits. Often repeating “I am a destroyer”, along with his controversial publications against various politicians, many of them debunked as hoaxes by fact-checkers.

He also targets migrants, “Homosexuals suffer homophobia from foreign groups and women suffer rape and sexual assault from those same groups,” he said on Sunday night.

[Edited by Rajnish Singh]