The PP’s headache for attracting the young vote, which according to all the polls is going to Vox, reaches its internal structure. The general secretary of New Generations of the Popular Party, Carlo G. Angrisano, announced this Sunday his resignation from office and his withdrawal as a member of the Popular Party. He has also openly asked for the vote for Vox. Sources from Genoa point out that Angrisano, who is also the nephew of Vox MEP Juan Carlos Girauta, had not served as de facto general secretary of the organization that brings together the young people of the PP, for months.
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The resignation message of the general secretary of NNGG of the PP
“I belong to a generation that suffers the effects of uncontrolled illegal immigration and an economy suffocated by bureaucracy and wokismo”, assures Angrisano in a video distributed to make his decision public. “For this reason, like so many young Spaniards, I have had to go live abroad to build a better future, for myself and my family. I want to say it bluntly. I ask to vote for Vox. I do it because my ideas remain firm and my principles immovable. The place from which they can defend themselves without asking for forgiveness has changed, I will continue in the same battle, now, where Spain defends itself without complexes,” he adds.
New Generations of the PP has been chaired since April 2021 by the Basque deputy Beatriz Fanjul, 34, who entered Congress in 2019. While Angrisano, next on the organizational chart and who is 29, has a Law degree from ESADE and served as a parliamentary advisor in the European Parliament. He has also chaired the student organization of the European People’s Party and has been part of the National Executive Committee of the Popular Party.
“He hasn’t worked for a long time, at least for the PP. If from now on he works for Vox at least he will know what it means to get paid for doing something,” sources from Genoa say in a statement. “He asked to be on the PP lists to become an MEP and was told no. He then asked to be an advisor in the European Parliament to have a job, salary and connection with politics. He was granted that possibility although in recent times he stopped exercising his duties due to spending almost all his time outside of Europe, since his partner is of Ecuadorian nationality and spent most of his time in Ecuador,” they say in the national leadership of the PP. Officially, Angrisano continues to appear as general secretary of Nuevas Generaciones on the party’s official website. “Resign before they resign,” they say in Genoa.
Concern about leaks
According to the latest survey of 40dB. For EL PAÍS and Cadena SER, Vox is the first party in voting intention in the three groups of voters from 18 to 44 years old, a leadership boosted by its success among men in those segments. Among men of generation Z, from 18 to 28, they have 41% voting intention. Among the men millennialsfrom 29 to 44, drops, but is still clearly ahead with 31.2%.
Concern about the leakage of votes from the PP to Vox among young people has led the popular parties to recently teach a TikTok and Instagram course to their deputies and senators. In addition, regional officials assure that they are greatly increasing the budget on social networks due to the concern of the young vote. “Parties do not begin to lose when they stop winning elections, but when they stop knowing what they are defending and when a political project is fearful,” Angrisano points out in his publication.
