Elections in Spain: Argentine candidates or of European origin – 28/04/2019

Argentinian blood runs through the veins of the general elections being held this Sunday in Spain. It is a curiosity that the origin (on their own or that of their parents) in the Río de la Plata has given rise to candidates of all colors: from the extreme right to the most radical separatism.

Listen Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, candidate for the Congress of Deputies of the Popular Party in Barcelona, ​​looks like a woman from Buenos Aires. With this irritating accent for some Catalans and the initials of his name (CAT), which coincide with the denomination of Catalonia on the Internet, the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, appointed him to resurrect the party. in danger of extinction in the independence countries.

She is the daughter of a Spanish Marquis, Juan Illán Alvarez of Toledo and Giraud, of a Marqués XII of Casa Fuente, and an Argentine aristocrat: Patricia Peralta Ramos, member of the family package. he founded Mar del Plata.

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Regarded as "the Messi of the PP" by Casado, Cayetana provoked throughout the electoral campaign until the signing of copies of the Spanish Constitution on the Ramblas of Barcelona.

She spent her childhood and adolescence in Buenos Aires, where she studied at Northlands School. There, he met and became friends with Máxima Zorreguieta, the Argentine queen of Holland.

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"There are only two options: the continuity of the constitutionalist Spain that Casado represents or the uncertainty and atomization that characterize the socialist Pedro Sánchez and his separatist partners," repeated Cayetana, 44, who resisted without being intimidated when he shouted. "Fascist", "facha" and "marquesa" trying to give a lecture at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

"The more they say that I, for Madrid, for Argentina, for not Catalan, no matter the reason, I do not have the right to present myself for Barcelona, ​​but they expose the dirty face of their project, xenophobia, segregationism What is racism? Plus they say: "Cayetana is from the outside, he does not speak Catalan, does not have the right to represent us, more powerful will be the meaning of this candidacy of the PP and what the PP does today. "

"Hello Cayetana, how nice you are here! How are your things on the beach of Mar del Plata? Che, let's see if we get together to drink pals, " he quipped in his account Twitter The Argentine Albano-Dante Fachin, former general secretary of Podemos (the party of Pablo Iglesias presented this Sunday in the general elections under the title United Podemos) in Catalonia, which is proposed as a candidate for the new coalition of independence Catalan: Front Republic.

Former journalist, like Cayetana, Dante Fachin heads an anti-system platform formed of Som Alternativa (his own group), Poble Lliure and Pirates of Catalunya, currents that are part of the CUP, the party of the separatist Assembly Catalan. more radical.

He was born in Bahía Blancain 1976, and at 16, his family emigrated to Spain. His grandparents are from Galicia and Andalusia, but he has been in Catalonia for nearly four decades. He studied English philology at the University of Barcelona, ​​but he did not finish his studies and engaged for five years in politics.

"The three parties that coincide in the Front have a common goal: to block the Congress and prevent the ERC and the successors of Convergència from agreeing with the Spanish government," his proposal said in a statement. countryside.

Dope Fachin's antipodes, Vox's secretary general, Javier Ortega Smith, he is the son of an argentine and, although he was born in Spain, he has dual nationality. Those who know him say that before devoting himself to politics, Ortega Smith He spent seasons in Argentina attending family businesses.

He is a former soldier (it was a green beret), karateca and an athlete who, as a lawyer, has succeeded in opening legal proceedings against the leaders of Catalan independence who are judged by the Supreme Court. Thus, Vox represents, through Ortega Smith, the popular accusation in the trial lawsuit.

A grandson and son of a lawyer, he is a candidate for the Vox list in Madrid behind his leader, Santiago Abascal.

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Abascal seems to have forgotten the dual nationality (Spanish and Argentine) of Ortega Smith when last year proposed to expel from Spain to the Secretary of the Organization of Podemos, Pablo Echenique, to be "foreign" and encourage "the destruction of the rule of law".

"We will do our utmost to expel the foreigners from Spain who, although they have obtained their nationality, are dedicated to attacking freedoms and ending the democratic system," Abascal said.

Echenique was born in Rosario In 1978, he arrived in Spain at the age of thirteen and settled in Zaragoza, where he topped the list of candidates Podemos Podemos for these elections.

Spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic and hereditary disease that that did not stop him from graduating and getting his doctorate in physics nor obtain a position as a senior scientist at the Rocasolano Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).

He joined Podemos in 2014 after a brief activism in Ciudadanos and, although he has almost lost the Argentine accent, he retains dual nationality.

Argentina has thus infiltrated the Spanish elections. This Sunday evening, when the results of the survey will be known, we will know how much the future Spanish government will participate.

GML