Alvise: from anti-politics rhetoric to a seat in the European Parliament

Alvise goes from asking his trinc to picturing himself in La Moncloa

A seat in the European Parliament and, in the background, the question that had been circulating for months: has the position gone to his head? Alvise Pérez arrives in Brussels after the European elections and his rhetoric has shifted register. The anti-politics agitator now speaks like a conventional politician, gives interviews to El País and weighs in on foreign policy. The issue always comes back to the same edge: whether his European seat serves as a shield against what he left behind.

European parliamentary immunity: what it covers and what it doesn't

The immunity of a Member of the European Parliament, once sworn in, only covers acts performed in the exercise of their duties, not anything from before, as argued in the thread. A seat does not wipe out pending cases, that reading adds. Anyone claiming otherwise is mistaken, according to the same criterion: in the face of a serious crime, an MEP answers just like any other citizen. The discussion, then, is not whether the seat makes him untouchable, but how much real margin it adds to his legal situation.

The shift in his rhetoric: from polling his audience to picturing himself in La Moncloa

The leap shows in the tone itself. He would have gone from asking his trinc whether he should enter politics to picturing himself directly inside La Moncloa, the Spanish prime minister's residence. The conversation swings between two readings. Some appreciate his anti-politics rhetoric and, even so, did not vote for him, considering it marketing and manipulation; on the other side, those who see a project with real staying power. Some have spent four years waiting for him to truly shake things up and, so far, the tally is a string of announcements.

Why is Alvise compared to Pablo Iglesias?

The comparison stems from an electoral pattern, not a personal resemblance: a face known from social media and television who makes the leap in a European election. Hence the label of a right-wing clone. For others, the resemblance is nil and sustaining it requires a real stretch: they share neither origin, nor rhetoric, nor social base. At most, the method, never the content.

Zelensky, NATO and the cost of a long war

On foreign policy, the register has also moved. The MEP is credited with criticism of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, which part of the audience reads as a turn towards positions aligned with Moscow. The corruption accusations against the Ukrainian leader circulate without judicial backing and should be treated for what they are: unconfirmed claims.

The analysis turns economic when it comes to NATO's role. One line of thought holds that the Alliance is already wearing Russia down without mobilising a single soldier, simply by selling weapons that generate activity in Western economies, and that this balance could hold for decades. Others counter that, if the Alliance had the slightest chance, it would already have entered Russia, as it has in other countries.

The essential question remains unresolved. Whether Alvise's turn is a pose to make the most of his seat or the first stage of something bigger, no one in this part of the conversation has managed to settle it.