“My team has convinced me that it is good for you to get to know the person behind it better. Feijóo”. This is how the PP candidate for the presidency of the GovernmentAlberto Núñez Feijóo, in a video that the popular have spread this Sunday to reveal the intimate profile of the conservative leader who aspires to electoral victory on 23J.
Filled with photos of his childhood and his son Alberto, the PP leader reveals in the 10-minute recording that he did not want to “get involved in politics.” In addition, he underlines the advice that he tells that his grandparents and his parents transmitted to him and that he affirms that he has tried to apply throughout his life, also in politics. “Do things well, be serious and think of others & rdquor ;, he reiterates on several occasions in the recording, shot in the streets and in the mountains of the village where he was born, Los Peares, in the province of Ourense.
Over the course of 10 minutes, the popular candidate reels off seven key episodes in his biography, from when they called him Albertito, to later being called Alberto and “to be known today by the majority as Feijóo,” he says. After remembering a childhood who looks happy in a town of no more than 300 inhabitants, Feijóo confesses the shock that leaving the family caused him to enter a internship.
The leader recreates himself recounting some anecdote of adolescence, like the time they punished him for washing the breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes of all his roommates for a prank that he does not detail. “I also learned that being serious pays off. The teacher ended up lifting the punishment when he saw that I was left alone fulfilling it & rdquor ;, he recounts.
“Away” from politics
During his youth, Feijóo comments that he tried to “be on the sidelines & rdquor; of the political turmoil of the 1980s, while studying Right In the Univertisty of Santiago, with the illusion of becoming a judge and enjoying the Vigo movida party as one more night owl. However, he admits that he voted for the PSOE in Philip Gonzalez in those years in which socialism took control of the absolute majority after the Transition. “I don’t regret it, it seemed to me that it was what Spain needed at that time & rdquor ;, she affirms.
Feijóo explains that, for his career, it was decisive that his father fell into the unemploymentwhich led him to take a competitive exam to find a job as an official of the Xunta de Galicia, recently constituted at that time. He tells that, after the first reluctance to get involved in politics, he agreed to be appointed secretary general of the Ministry of Agriculture, his first public office. He came to him from the hand of counselor José Manuel Romay Beccaría, with whom he would make the leap to Madrid. During the government of Jose Maria AznarFeijóo held positions in the Ministry of Health and chaired Mail.
The popular presidential candidate also appears in the video together with the former Galician president Manuel Fraga, of whom he was a counselor. “I joined the PP because nobody demanded it from me. If they had, I might not have accepted it. Offering me important positions without requiring my membership told me two very good things about this party. So I decided to join & rdquor ;, he maintains.
Four absolute majorities
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Feijóo stops at his stage at the head of the Xunta. “It absorbed me in such a way that for almost 14 years it was 100% of my life. The Galicians rewarded me with four absolute majorities. I will never be able to thank him enough & rdquor ;, says the PP leader, who declares himself “proud” to be part of the “people humble of small villages & rdquor; like yours, “of towns bigger or the neighborhoods of the cities & rdquor ;. “They are not in extremes nor do they go through life offending. They know how to live together and they teach us that two do not fight if one does not want to & rdquor ;, she describes.
Feijóo closes the video with an assortment of endearing images with his wife and their son, Alberto, a minor. “When he grows up, I will go back to my town with him, I will show him where we came from, where his great-grandmother’s store was, the grandparents’ house and where his father played. Only knowing where we come from can we know where we are going& rdquor ;, concludes the popular. Before melting into black, the candidate passes a poster in which he emphasizes that he intends to become president “of all & rdquor; the Spanish.