{"id":55717,"date":"2024-05-03T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55717"},"modified":"2025-05-03T00:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:41:35","slug":"alejo-vidal-quadras-and-the-shameless-maneuver-that-the-popular-party-has-made-at-his-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/03\/alejo-vidal-quadras-and-the-shameless-maneuver-that-the-popular-party-has-made-at-his-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejo Vidal-Quadras and the shameless maneuver that the Popular Party has made at his expense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been interested in politics as a defense of ideals for many years, but there is a certain vision of politics that makes me nauseous.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/13\/the-crime-against-vidal-quadras-and-the-striking-absences-in-a-vox-initiative-in-the-eu\/\">The crime against Vidal-Quadras and the striking absences in a Vox initiative in the EU<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/08\/the-suspicious-favor-of-the-sanchez-govt-to-the-criminal-who-shot-alejo-vidal-quadras\/\">The suspicious favor of the S\u00e1nchez govt to the criminal who shot Alejo Vidal-Quadras<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The PP leaked to Ok Diario that Vidal-Quadras wants to run in its candidacy<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, Ok Diario published <a href=\"https:\/\/okdiario.com\/espana\/vidal-quadras-ofrece-pp-ir-lista-elecciones-europeas-12768464\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a piece of news<\/a> with this headline: <em>\"<strong>Vidal-Quadras offers himself to the PP to go on its list for the European elections<\/strong>.\"<\/em> According to the news, the former MEP of the Popular Party and former Vox candidate <em>\"has proposed to the Popular Party the possibility of running as a candidate in these elections.\"<\/em> <strong>The news affirms this offer as something pending a response<\/strong>, pointing out the following: <em>\"The possible incorporation of Vidal-Quadras would complete a list that will be closed by the philosopher Fernando Savater, as announced by Feij\u00f3o this very Wednesday.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The PP rejected Vidal-Quadras' request but it was not published by Ok Diario<\/big><\/p>\n<p>That news was published in the morning. In the afternoon <strong>Vidal-Quadras told what happened in<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/opinion\/profunda-decepcion.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> in VozP\u00f3puli, with this title: <em>\"<strong>Una profunda decepci\u00f3n<\/strong>\"<\/em> (A deep disappointment). Vidal-Quadras begins by pointing out that both the headline and the content of the Ok Diario news <em>\"are correct and absolutely true\"<\/em>, and then explains the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"Given that <strong>someone among the very few people, all of whom are close to the president of the PP, who are aware of this matter has leaked it with malicious intent<\/strong> to the aforementioned digital website against my intention of keeping it completely confidential, I consider myself entitled to expose the details of this frustrated operation so that my position on the matter is known.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Vidal-Quadras points out that he made this offer to Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o on February 28<\/strong> in a meeting held in his office at the national headquarters of the PP: <em>\"I expressed my desire to return to Parliament European on the PP list,\"<\/em> comments the former MEP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reasons alleged by Vidal-Quadras for this request are six:<\/strong> his work supporting the Iranian resistance (something that seems commendable to me), <b>providing \"a clear signal of the ability to unify the center-right\"<\/b>, the sympathy towards him generated by the assassination attempt he suffered on November 9, 2023, his vast experience and abundant contacts, his political activity from civil society and, finally, <strong>increase its level of protection against another possible attack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Vidal-Quadras adds: <em>\"<strong>Yesterday morning I was notified of the rejection of my offer due to my age<\/strong>, a criterion that I am told has been applied to the majority of the list.\"<\/em> That is to say, <strong>the PP leadership rejected his offer on Tuesday and immediately leaked it to a related media<\/strong>, to take advantage of it and perhaps try to capture some votes from Vox, <strong>but that yes, without saying that they had already rejected their offer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Vidal-Quadras denounces \"an intention to humiliate me lacking all humanity\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Vidal-Quadras does not hide his anger: <em>\"<strong>the leak to a media outlet of my claim a few hours before rejecting it reveals an intention to humiliate me lacking all humanity<\/strong> in light of the dramatic connotations of my suggestion\"<\/em>, despite which he recognizes that he will be in Barcelona this Saturday to support the PP candidate in the Catalan elections, because <em>\"unlike others, I am always loyal to my principles.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The admirable work of Vidal-Quadras in support of the Iranian resistance<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I am not going to question Vidal-Quadras' principles because he supports the party he decided to leave a decade ago. <strong>This man has suffered an assassination attempt for defending those principles<\/strong> and for that, in my opinion, he deserves the greatest respect. I also believe that <strong>his work in support of the Iranian resistance is worthy of praise<\/strong>, and I hope that he continues with this activity in favor of freedom in whatever organization, media or platform from whoever decides to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Although he mentioned her last, <strong>I understand that concern for his safety must be very important to him after the crime he suffered a few months ago: I understand and respect it<\/strong>, especially considering that we live at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/26\/israel-criticizes-that-sanchezs-govt-allows-pflp-terrorists-to-demonstrate-in-madrid\/\">a country whose government allows Palestinian terrorists to demonstrate in the streets of Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Today's PP is even worse than the PP that Vidal-Quadras abandoned 10 years ago<\/big><\/p>\n<p>All in all, <strong>I am saddened that Vidal-Quadras has offered to Feij\u00f3o to unify the \"center-right\" while the PP insists on allowing itself to be dragged ideologically by the left-wing<\/strong>. Just yesterday, without going any further, Feij\u00f3o once again reaffirmed that attitude <a href=\"https:\/\/gaceta.es\/espana\/feijoo-pide-renovar-ya-en-el-congreso-el-reconocimiento-del-estado-palestino-20240502-1059\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supporting a recognition of Palestine as a state<\/a>. We are talking about a party that has bought the discourse of the left on issues such as <strong>abortion, gender ideology, criminal discrimination against men<\/strong>, immigration policy, ecological radicalism and a long etcetera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feij\u00f3o is not only a clear representation of that ideological drift of the PP<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/10\/efecto-feijoo-todo-esto-es-lo-que-alguna-gente-de-derechas-esta-ansiosa-por-votar\/\">but he also added the ingredient of linguistic nationalism<\/a> during his time as president of the government of Galicia. <strong>With Feij\u00f3o at the helm, the PP has done nothing other than accentuate this leftist drift.<\/strong> Today's PP is even worse than the PP that Vidal-Quadras abandoned 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><big>No Spanish MEP from the PP signed a petition for Vidal-Quadras<\/big><\/p>\n<p>But in addition to allowing itself to be dragged by the left in matters of principles, <strong>the PP also exhibits a way of treating people that is purely disloyal<\/strong>. Vidal-Quadras already confirmed this in person in 2009, when Aznar <strong>removed him from the presidency of the Popular Party of Catalonia as payment for the support of the Catalan nationalists<\/strong> for his government.<\/p>\n<p>In January of this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/13\/the-crime-against-vidal-quadras-and-the-striking-absences-in-a-vox-initiative-in-the-eu\/\">Vox asked the EU to include the criminal who shot Vidal-Quadras on Europol's most wanted list<\/a>, after it became known that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/08\/the-suspicious-favor-of-the-sanchez-govt-to-the-criminal-who-shot-alejo-vidal-quadras\/\"> The S\u00e1nchez government excluded him from that list<\/a> in a suspicious favor treatment towards this evildoer. <strong>That Vox petition was signed by 28 MEPs from four groups.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/13\/the-crime-against-vidal-quadras-and-the-striking-absences-in-a-vox-initiative-in-the-eu\/\">Among the signatories there was no member of the Popular Party of Spain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, <strong>after rejecting his request to be included in the lists, they are using him in the media<\/strong> to try to subtract votes from Vox, but hiding that they had already rejected him, so that the leak would be more successful. Seriously, Don Alejo: <strong>do you think that a party that behaves like this and that exhibits this lack of principles deserves your support?<\/strong> I think not, but you have more experience than me in life and it is you who must value it. In any case, <strong>I did not start voting for Vox because of a name, but because of its principles<\/strong>, and as long as Vox remains faithful to those principles, I will continue to vote for Vox. <strong>I'm already tired of the PP's deceptions<\/strong> asking for center-right votes and then making the same policies as the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been interested in politics as a defense of ideals for many years, but there is a certain vision of politics that makes me nauseous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[753,21490,641,11462,7535],"class_list":["post-55717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-alejo-vidal-quadras","tag-european-elections-2024","tag-partido-popular","tag-spain","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}