While Gabriel Rufián travels the State defending his idea of unity of the left, the right also has someone preaching the same. Less popular, retired, but capable of filling the auditorium of the select Círculo Ecuestre between his obsessions with ETA and conspiracy theories. Jaime Mayor Oreja, former Minister of the Interior and former leader of the Basque PP, who boasted in 2009 that his great-grandfather had banned Basque at home to "get out of the barn," has managed to gather leaders from the PP (Alejandro Fernández at the forefront) and Vox (Joan Garriga). All in all, to send them a message: "There is an 85% of things that unite us, let's be capable of offering an alternative".

I read in ARA a very good interview by David Miró with a politician who, without me agreeing with him at all, I find brilliant. Alejandro Fernández, a man who I think loves music and cooking. Talking about the frigate that Pedro Sánchez has sent to Cyprus, he says: “It doesn’t matter, John Lennon isn’t there singing Imagine

Alejandro Fernández (Tarragona, 1976) feels strengthened at the helm of the PP of Catalonia and has left behind his differences with Alberto Núñez Feijóo.Can you explain to us what the PP's position is regarding the war in Iran?

This week saw a shake-up in the Catalan People's Party, with changes in the leadership of two of the four Catalan provinces: Tarragona and Girona, two districts where the state leadership and the party itself in Catalonia identified urgently needed replacements for different reasons. But these changes, particularly those in Tarragona, have brought back memories of old battles involving the new leader, Maria Mercè Martorell, and the current president of the party in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández—who is further weakened by the structure. Specifically significant is the loss of the Salou councilor who until now was president, Mario García, who enjoyed Fernández's utmost confidence and campaigned for him when very few did in the battle with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. He is replaced by a team of opposing views because it embraces the "constitutional Catalanism" that the Galician leader would like, according to various sources, and because it places Martorell, who is also a councilor from Tarragona - protagonist of notorious past clashes with the Catalan leader when he was also a councilor and local leader - as the new leader, accompanied by Josep Piqué. In Girona, on the other hand, a new fire is chosen to replace Jaume Veray with the young man from Empordà Daniel Ruiz, who was his number two.

The disarray and the struggle continue within the Catalan People's Party (PP), despite attempts to reverse it, at least in appearance. The party attempted to return to normality after the parliamentary elections of 12-M, in which quintupled the results until catapulting itself into the fourth largest party with fifteen deputies, alongside Alejandro Fernández as its candidate. Since the beginning of Salvador Illa's presidency, it has sought to establish itself as the alternative and has revived practices that are part of the daily routine of all parties, such as Monday press conferences—abandoned since the pandemic until this term—but with very limited normality, especially because the internal battle continues. It is not only the fact that the leadership is expired for more than three years –the Catalan congress should have been held in 2022 and it is not planned thatthat will be done until Alberto Núñez Feijóo can become Spanish president - but the management committee has not met since Isla became president and goes back much further than a year ago, according to what ARA has learned from several sources.

Alejandro Fernández had his moment of glory at the PP congress when it became known the amendment he presented to rule out any pact between the PP and Junts and the pro-independence partiesHowever, the negotiation with the state leadership ended with the leader of the Catalan Popular Party yielding to the proposal of Genoa, in which the pacts with the sovereignty movement were not explicitly vetoed, but were framed within "the defense of the State, the nation and the constitutional order"Fernández's amendment has already generated discontent among several members of the Catalan PP who, now that the congress is over, see their president's tactics failing. They point out that the "isolation" of the PP leader within the party continues. "It was an unnecessary conflict; it wasn't the time," notes another leader. The state leadership is not willing to start the melon of the postponed congress of the Catalan PP, because right now the party's strategy is subordinated to one thing: Feijóo becoming president of the Spanish government. Until this happens, the case of the Catalan PP will not be addressed, and Fernández is aware that the majority of the Catalan PP members are not aligned with him and do not view him favorably, just as they do not view him favorably within the state leadership. Furthermore, it has always been noted that this weekend's congress would not represent "any change" in terms of their internal position. Nor did many leaders who were asked to do so foresee this.

What could further deteriorate the relationship between Fernández and the state leadership is the entry of new faces from the Catalan People's Party (PP) into the state executive, who could be the link between the Catalan People's Party (PP) and Feijóo's leadership. This is the case of Daniel Sirera, leader of the PP in Barcelona City Council.although there are many critical voices within the party in the Principality–, and also the PP spokesperson in the Parliament, Juan Fernández, former right-hand man to Xavier Garcia Albiol – the mayor of Badalona was the person who presided over the PP congress this weekend. Specifically, Albiol and Juan Fernández, in interviews on TV3 and RTVE respectively, explicitly distanced themselves from Alejandro Fernández and defended the possibility of exploring pacts with Junts.

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The day after the imprisonment of former Socialist party organization secretary Santos Cerdán for alleged corruption, a tense face-to-face confrontation erupted in the Catalan Parliament: the leader of the Catalan People's Party (PP), Alejandro Fernández, attempted to link the president of the Generalitat (Catalan government), Salvador Illa, to the alleged irregularities in the purchase of the ballot box, which he called "unintentional." "He'll regret it," Illa said, addressing Fernández in a serious tone: "I reserve my right to act." Salvador Illa was outraged and declared that Fernández had made a "serious mistake." "What he said is completely false; he deserves the award for political fiction," he concluded, making it clear: "I don't even know who this person you mention is, nor have I spoken to him through any app or had any conversation with him. He's driven by the passions of some people," he retorted. However, the PP leader remained silent from his seat.

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The Catalan People's Party (PP) has not presented any amendments or stated a position on the proposals and their possible changes at the party's state congress. However, this was not the case for its leader, Alejandro Fernández: the top leader of the PP in the Principality has decided to amend Alberto Núñez Feijóo's course alone, without the approval of the rest of the Catalan leaders. This Wednesday, according to several sources consulted by ARA, no one else knew the content of the modification proposals he has presented when the deadline expires today. A stance that has generated unease among the leadership.

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Alberto Núñez Feijóo has decided to advance the party congress this JulyA congress that aims to be the electoral and ideological rearmament to unseat Pedro Sánchez from the presidency of the Spanish government, but which has also raised thorny issues affecting the party. To begin with, internal democracy: the Popular Party leader wants to eliminate the method of electing the party's state president through primaries, which will also affect the system at levels such as the regional level—the state system links the autonomous regions, which have the same model. How could this change affect Alejandro Fernández's leadership in Catalonia? He must fear for his position, considering that the Catalan leader has become one of the main critical voices With Feijóo?

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It's unusual for a party's leadership to not allow the president of a region to present a book at its stand. And even less so in Catalonia on Sant Jordi Day. But it's also unusual for him to publish a book to attack the state leadership for appointing and removing regional leaders by fingerThe fact is that Alejandro Fernández has finally been able to sign his book, In underwear off (La Esfera de los Libros, 2025), at the PP parade and not just at the student platform's "It's Over," as planned just two days before Sant Jordi.

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"If anyone was expecting a controversial headline about the turbulent internal life of the PP, they will be disappointed," warned Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo at the beginning of the presentation of Alejandro Fernández's book, that has shaken the partyAt the event this Monday night at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the leader of the Catalan PP has sorted out some of the most controversial phrases it contains. In underwear off(La Esfera de los Libros, 2025) - he has not spoken of "tutelage" from Génova nor has he described her as a "human crusher of Catalan leaders." "My commitment to the party and to my president is indisputable," Fernández assured. "It was not written against Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but for Feijóo," Álvarez de Toledo insisted.

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It's one of the few certainties in Catalan politics: Alejandro Fernández is very likeable. I'll say more: he's a good speaker, knows how to combine firmness with a sense of humor, and has dared to disagree with his Madrid mentors, which in his party is a risky sport. For all these reasons, Fernández is highly regarded in the Catalan press, and I'm not going to say he hasn't earned it.

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"It's been a bombshell"; "there's anger and discontent." Alejandro Fernández's book, in which he resumes the war with the state PP commanded by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, It hasn't left anyone indifferent within the party. Sources within the conservative party explain that the more moderate sector, or those who simply align themselves with Feijóo, not only feels uncomfortable with the essay published this week, but also violated because it represents the reopening of wounds that never fully healed. And, of course, because it's a test of the leadership of the more hardline sector. In the book, Fernández criticizes Madrid's "tutelage" and the "shredder" of Catalan leadership. He, in fact, has been on the ropes on several occasions since becoming president of the PP in Catalonia in 2018.

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In a political party, a war can be fought in several chapters, including truces and armistices. This is what happened with the battle between the leader of the Catalan People's Party (PP), Alejandro Fernández, and the national PP led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, which has now resurfaced with a book by the Catalan leader that went on sale this Wednesday. In underwear off (La Esfera de los Libros, 2025). The message is clear: stand up to Feijóo, demand an end to Madrid's "tutelage," and denounce a "human shredder of Catalan leaders." He even asserts that his closest circle has suffered a dirty war and cites two complaints of mistreatment and sexual assault involving close leaders: the case of Albert Fernández Saltiveri and Daniel Serrano's respectively.

]]> The PSC has won the elections to the Catalan Parliament with more than 625,000 votes, but has tied at 33 seats with ERC, which collects more than 580,000 votes. The socialists' result is well above the 17 seats they had in 2017. The Salvador Illa operation has worked and has capitalised on the non-independence vote under the PSC umbrella, because the socialists have recovered 16 seats, especially in the metropolitan area, cities where Ciudadanos had won in the last elections. The latter, who were victorious in the 2017 elections, are shrunken on the map: they get only 6 seats, 30 less than in 2017. The setback is unprecedented: Cs has gone from first to seventh force in the hemicycle.

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