The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has presented himself as “the candidate for the Presidency of all Spaniards” in a video in which he reviews his political and personal biography ahead of the July 23 elections, in which He remembers how when he was young he did not want to get into politics.
In this video, Feijóo narrates his childhood, his university studies and his fatherhood while visiting different places in the Galician village where he was born, Os Peares, all with the motto of “do things well, be serious and always think of others”. “.
“I was a happy child,” he recalls about his childhood in the village, with photographs of the time, to later address his stage in a boarding school in León “where he did not know anyone” and ended up doing “typical pranks of age.”
At that moment he was inspired by a phrase that his family used to say, “be serious”, recalls the leader of the PP, who also narrates his time at an institute in Ourense and, later, at the Law School of Santiago de Compostela, where he began his studies. university studies with “the illusion of one day being a judge”.
From that time as a university student, “of a lot of political activism”, he highlights that he had fun “as much as possible” and that he voted for the socialist Felipe González “because it was what Spain needed at that time.”
Feijóo also tells how a dismissal letter received by his father makes his dream of being a judge “fade away”, and explains that given the need to contribute to the family economy, he goes to work with the aim of being a civil servant for the Board.
Thus, he recounts how he approved an opposition from the Ministry of Finance in five months, only to receive his first proposal to enter politics a few years later: the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, a position of political designation that he initially rejected.
“It was a position of political designation and that meant something that I did not want, to get into politics. And I said no,” he explains. However, his strong vocation for public service led him to accept that proposal two months later because “miraculously the position was still vacant.”
The author of that offer was the then counselor José Manuel Romay Beccaría, whom he later accompanied to Madrid when he was appointed Minister of Health in the government of José María Aznar. Thus, Feijóo remembers his time at Insalud and at Correos, the first public company in Spain.
The video also shows what were the first elections of the current president of the PP as a candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta, a campaign in which he toured his land “from town to town” and assumed that “he had to do whatever was necessary so that those people could live better”.
After dedicating “100%” of his life to this responsibility for 14 years, Feijóo remembers how he met Eva, his wife, and became the father of “little Alberto”, his son, all while interspersed with images from the family album .
In the video, Feijóo also stresses that when his son grows up he will share with him the same phrase as his parents and grandparents: “Do things well, be serious and always think of others.”
The presentation ends with Feijóo passing in front of a sign that reads: “In April 22 Alberto Núñez Feijóo was elected president of the Popular Party and candidate for the Presidency of all Spaniards.”
