Girauta's nephew who ignored his uncle's warnings

Madrid"What are you doing joining the PP?" is what Juan Carlos Girauta, former leader of Cs and now MEP for Vox, remembers telling his nephew when in 2012 he explained that he had decided to join the youth ranks of the Popular Party. At that time, Carlo Angrisano Girauta (Niça, 1996) was only fifteen years old, but had a very firm "conservative and right-wing" conviction. Although his uncle – with whom he has a "very close" relationship, as confirmed by both to ARA – tried to attract him to Cs, Angrisano resisted. "I am more right-wing than you," he used to tell me, Girauta continues, lamenting that his nephew did not let himself be influenced and ignored his warnings. "The PP is shit, if you stand out they will drown you so you don't cast a shadow on anyone," he told him.

Fourteen years later, Angrisano, who since 2021 was the second-in-command of Noves Generacions del PP, has fallen out with Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party,has resigned from his position and has asked for votes for Vox in a message on X.

The former secretary general of the PP's youth wing assures ARA that his decision is "purely ideological" and denies the version spread by Génova. Feijóo's team has accused him of being resentful for not having been placed on the European Parliament lists and of dereliction of duty in the last stage of the year and a half he has been an advisor to an MEP in Brussels. Angrisano defends that, for him, this was a "very good professional position," but that he no longer believed in Feijóo's message. He prefers Santiago Abascal's leadership, although he states he has not received any offer from the far-right party nor does he plan to join it, just like his uncle, who remains an independent and with whom he finally agrees. "That they relate us is a medal for me, but I have never decided my political affiliation because of him," he claims.

The former number two of Noves Generacions now lives in Ecuador with his partner, who is a senior official in the government of the conservative Daniel Noboa, and their daughter, who is a year and a half old. Trained in law at Esade, he says he wants to focus on the private world with various business projects, one of them related to sports. "I'm not just a politics geek," he assures.

Languages and Berlusconi

One of the characteristic traits that Girauta highlights about his nephew is his command of languages. He is a native speaker of Spanish, Italian, and French, and also speaks English and Catalan. He was born in Nice and lived in Monaco until he was eight years old because his father, a prestigious Italian admiral, presided over the International Hydrographic Organization during that period. The family then moved to Barcelona and he studied at the French High School.

He exhibited his multilingualism in a speech at the congress of the European PP in Zagreb (Croatia) in 2019, as president of the EPP's student organization, in which he railed against Catalan independence – "they point us out and attack us for defending unity," he denounced –. The intervention impressed the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who called him to congratulate him afterwards. A good memory for an Angrisano who defines himself as "very Berlusconi-esque" and is also a defender of Giorgia Meloni.