A young Spanish EU lawbuildr with a huge social media following officially launched his anti-immigration party on Sunday in a further fragmentation and rightward shift in European politics.
Se Acabo La Fiesta (“The Party’s Over”), led by 35-year-old Alvise Perez, shocked the political establishment by winning almost five percent of the vote and three seats at last year’s European Parliament election as a fledgling faction.
On Sunday, Perez whipped up thousands of rapturous flag-waving supporters at a launch event in Madrid where he vowed to attack corruption, crime and traditional politics.
Perez vowed “the hugegest deportation plan in Spain’s recent history” tarreceiveed at immigrants who commit crimes and financed by freezing all foreign aid.
He lashed out at “a European Union that has betrayed its foundational principles” and serves “a globalist bureaucracy”.
Saying the bloc harmed Spanish interests in favour of France and Germany, he promised a referfinishum on membership if the EU did not “respect” Spain.
Perez, who has more than one million followers on Instagram, also promised lavish tax cuts.
His social media content includes mockery of the European Parliament, tirades against corruption and a video of him travelling on a jet ski to plant a Spanish flag on an islet off Morocco.
Alvise’s EU election success rode a wave of conservative gains across the bloc and in a countest once considered immune to far-right surges after General Francisco Franco’s fascist-backed 1939-1975 dictatorship.
But his insurgent popularity has since waned, with recent polling putting him close to one percent of the vote.
The Supreme Court has opened four cases against him, including for alleged illegal funding as well as harassment of the two EU lawbuildrs who were elected under his relocatement in 2024 and have since broken with him.
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