The former PP mayor in the Barcelona city council and former PP deputy, and former Ciudadanos spokesperson in the Parliament of Catalonia, Carina Mejías, will contest the general elections on July 23 as number 2 of Vox to Congress for the Barcelona constituency, as reported Santiago Abascal’s party.
With his move to the far-right party, Mejías culminates his journey through the different acronyms of the Spanish right since he joined the Popular Party in 1991, a party with which he was a councilor in the Barcelona City Council and deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia in 1999. to 2003 and from 2006 to 2010.
In October 2012, she presented herself as an independent in the Ciudadanos primary process and was elected number three by Barcelona for the Catalan elections, in which she was elected deputy. In January 2014, after the resignation of Jordi Cañas, she was appointed spokesperson for his parliamentary group and in June of the same year she joined the Executive Committee of Citizens as spokesperson for municipal political action.
In 2020, Mejías resigned from Cs in disagreement with the support that Inés Arrimadas’s party gave the Government to extend the state of alarm. Mejías is a lawyer, with a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in humanistic and social studies.
They will accompany Mejías on the list of Vox for Barcelona the lawyer, politician and bankruptcy administrator Juan José Aizcorbe Torra as number one, and Jose Antonio Gilabert, PP candidate for Congress in 2019 and Vox candidate in Sitges on May 28, as number three In Tarragona, number 1 will be the deputy in Parliament Sergio Macián; in Girona, Ignasi Mulleras; and in Lleida, Eduardo Pallerola.
Aizcorbe (Barcelona, ??1959) already ranked number two on the Vox list for Barcelona in the last general elections, in which he won a seat, and became the Catalan benchmark for the party in Congress after the departure of Ignacio Garriga to lead the candidacy for the 2021 parliamentary elections.
The first appearance of Aizcorbe in some lists for the generals dates back to 1982, when he competed as number four for Barcelona of the extinct Fuerza Nueva, a far-right formation led by Blas Piñar. He was also a candidate for the 1989 European elections for the National Front, considered the successor to Fuerza Nueva, as well as a leader of the Spanish Juntas until 1992, which was later refounded as the xenophobic National Democracy.
Signed by Alejo Vidal-Quadras for the Catalan PP in 1995, Aizcorbe ran for president of the popular in Barcelona in 1997, although he was not elected.
On a professional level, Aizcorbe is known for being the lawyer hired by the family of the dictator Francisco Franco in the lawsuit with the Santiago de Compostela City Council for the ownership of two statues from the portico of Glory in the cathedral.
And in 1998 Aizcorbe challenged the Generalitat’s decision to label judicial buildings in Catalan, on behalf of the Association for the Defense of Spanish.
