Alvise Pérez no longer controls his MEPs.

MadridAlvise Pérez's party, Se ha Acabado la Fiesta (SALF), unexpectedly won three MEPs in the last European elections, but almost a year later its leader has admitted that he has lost control and is only responsible for himself. Pérez has publicly acknowledged that he has had to ask the other two representatives of his party in the European Parliament, Diego Solier and Nora Junco, for explanations for having voted differently on the matter of rearmament. While the SALF list leader has always voted against; "in the last" votes, the other two far-right representatives voted in favor.

"I don't know if a lobby came behind me and bought one of my MEPs. I know how I vote," he said on the Eclécticos Worldwide podcast, broadcast on Sunday night. In the conversation, Pérez urges his voters to pressure the other two SALF MEPs and confesses to being powerless when it comes to making them respond to his directives. "Go after them and demand explanations. If you see them in a bar, call them 'You're a criminal, corrupt, and you voted for rearmament when we voted for Alvise and you don't even know who you are.' I can't do that. The people who voted for us have to do it," he said.

Despite this lack of unity in the project, woven around the popularity of the far-right agitator who leads it, SALF appears in the CIS polls. In the latest Spanish election barometer, the party obtained an estimated vote of 1.1%, above the percentage obtained by the individual pro-independence parties in the country as a whole. In the last European elections, Pérez obtained 800,000 votes, which he now sees as "betrayed" by the two people who accompanied him on the list. "Do you know how easy it is for you to be bought? That an arms lobby comes and leaves a briefcase next to you. [...] Do you know what a million euros in hundred-euro bills is?" he insinuated.

Investigated in the Supreme Court

Perez makes these accusations after the Supreme Court opened two criminal cases against him, one of them for having accepted 100,000 euros in cash given to him by crypto-entrepreneur Álvaro Romillo for funding his European election campaign. The high court sees evidence of fraud, misappropriation, money laundering, and document forgery. The Supreme Court is also investigating him for falsification of a private document and libel to spread false proof of Covid-19 for Salvador Illa.

"We are aware of the investigations," was the justification given a few months ago, when the Supreme Court had not yet taken the initiative, by sources from the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament led by Italian Giorgia Meloni for not accepting Pérez but instead accepting the other two SALF MEPs. Solier and Junco have been members "individually" since the end of last year and have left the leader of the party they represent on the sidelines, without affiliation to any group.