Alejandro Fernández breaks the history of the PP of Catalonia

This June, the People's Party of Catalonia has experienced a calm regional congress that has re-elected Tarragona's Alejandro Fernández as president for another four years. The history of the Catalan popular party has been a Dragon Khan since its foundation in the late eighties, and the president's chair burns out tenant after tenant. Fernández has been in office for eight years now, surpassing the average tenure of the long list of predecessors – the most recent being Daniel Sirera, Alicia Sánchez Camacho, and Xavier García Albiol – and if he completes his term, twelve years will become almost an eternity in the temporal parameters of the Catalan conservatives.

Fernández aligned himself with Pablo Casado when the latter ran for the leadership of the PP after Mariano Rajoy's withdrawal. When Casado fell from grace when he clashed with Isabel Díaz-Ayuso, many were already singing the Tarragona politician's swan song. He was seen as being at odds with Alberto Núñez Feijóo and even had to swallow the toad of seeing Maria Mercè Martorell, who is not one of his favorite people, being handpicked from Madrid as a candidate for Tarragona.

But Fernández is a political animal and has managed to survive in the Genoese jungle. He has taken the PP of Catalonia from being a party on life support to surpassing Vox and having fifteen seats in Parliament. And he has written a book, "In a jiffy –extended by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo–, with which he has made a tour of presentations throughout Spain and has established itself as the great scourge of Catalan independence. At times during its reading, to some it seemed like a work of political science fiction, but its followers liked it.

After being re-elected president of the PPC with 97.51% of the votes, Alejandro Fernández has positioned himself on the list of potential ministers for the increasingly inevitable Feijóo Government. The Catalan quota. We cannot deny that, after a political career of almost a quarter of a century, Fernández has certainly earned it.