Just a month ago, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, commissioned Pablo Vázquez, lawyer and doctor in economics, who chaired Renfe during the presidency of Mariano Rajoy and has chaired the Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea), to reorganize the Foundation Concordia y Libertad, created by Pablo Casado to replace the Faes, which broke ties with the PP.
The slogan of the popular leader was to design the work groups and selection of profiles that have to turn this foundation, whose name is still in the air, into “an essential tool to configure the party project”. For this, he asked Vázquez to sign “talent from outside the world of politics”, he does not want them to be people from the PP, but to contribute ideas.
Vázquez was commissioned to identify profiles with management experience who can complement the PP’s political ideology and contribute their knowledge to “enrich the project that the party offers Spanish society as the only government alternative.”
With this mandate, Gil Casares has already incorporated Toni Nadal, technical sports director of the ‘Rafa Nadal Academy’, and the journalist and president of the Querer Foundation, Pilar García de la Granja, into the foundation. To these signings, the president of the PP added on Tuesday those of a professor of constitutional law, Teresa Freixes; a former ambassador, Ramón Gil Casares; a former Portuguese minister, Nuno Crato; a lawyer from the Council of State or a member of the codification commission. Mercedes Strong; or a lawyer from the Council of State, Noemí Gámez.
The Catalan Teresa Freixes, president of the civil organization Concordia Cívica, has extensive experience in the field of Law. She is a professor of Constitutional Law, and she chairs the organization Concordia Cívica. She has participated as a legal expert for the European Union, in the Amsterdam Treaty, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty. With the Council of Europe, she has collaborated in the democratic consolidation and the formation of Thursdays in various Eastern European countries.
The diplomat Ramón Gil-Casares, graduate in Law and Philosophy and Letters from the Complutense University of Madrid, also joins the foundation of the PP. He was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 2002 and 2004 and Spanish Ambassador to the United States between 2012 and 2017, a role he has also held in Sudan (2011-2012), and in the Republic of South Africa (2005-2008). with multiple accreditation in the Republics of Mauritius, Madagascar and Comores, and in the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Among the additions, Nuno Crato stands out, with a degree in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. Crato was Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal in the Government of Passos Coelho, defender of knowledge and effort, and architect of Portugal’s educational success. During his tenure, Portuguese students obtained the best results in their history in PISA.
Feijóo has also signed Javier Santacruz, PhD in Economics, specializing in Macroeconometrics and Finance, university professor and collaborator in various media. He is a researcher at the Think Tank Civismo and a member of the platform “La España que reunites”, promoted by Nicolás Redondo and Joaquín Leguina, among others.
In the field of Administrative Law, Feijóo has included Mercedes Fuertes, professor of this specialty at the University of León and permanent member of the General Codification Commission of the Ministry of Justice. He has numerous publications in the field of Administrative Law and has collaborated with specific studies in different legal works, with fifty articles in specialized magazines. She is patron of the Hay Derecho Foundation, she is a contributor to El Mundo, Expansión and La Nueva España.
The PP also highlights the incorporation into its foundation of Noemí Gámez Moll, a Law graduate from the University of Malaga and a lawyer for the Council of State since 2016, who joined the Corps of Lawyers at only 28 years of age.
