If your name is Luis Pérez Fernández and you want to dedicate yourself to an activity with public impact, you would do well to find a name that is more unique, less frequent and more memorable. If you don’t do this, you risk going unnoticed: according to the National Statistics Institute (INE), there are 179,088 people in Spain called Luis, 775,938 who have Pérez as their first name and 912,224 who have Fernández as their first name. first name. their second last name.
Perhaps it was all this that pushed Luis Pérez Fernández, born in Seville in February 1990, to adopt a singular, unusual and memorable name: Alvise. He borrowed it, it seems, from a character in the 15th-century Italian philosopher Agostino Nifo. And by simply calling himself Alvise, without even a last name, he managed to become a “debater” a few years ago – that’s what Wikipedia calls him – and an alleged scourge of the corrupt, he became a few months ago an MEP and a few days ago he became a suspected corrupt person under investigation by the Supreme Court prosecutor’s office.
An expert in semantics, or appellationor in reputation, will one day study as a business school case the rise and fall of the attributes of the name Alvise or of Alvise himself.
The best of the “Alvise case” These are the explanations that the hunter gave when he saw himself hunted. He himself says that he accepted that a cryptocurrency businessman paid him 100,000 euros in cash “in order to have more savings so as not to enrich himself from my political activity” and that for this he had to make “a sacrifice of morality”. . Poor! He lives without living in himself and dies because he does not die, he is a mystic immersed in a baroque contradiction. He is a man allegedly corrupt in spite of himself, like Molière’s doctor in spite of himself.
Alvise calls her constituents squirrels, and considers herself a sort of elder squirrel, queen of the swarm. “I am alive, / I am active, / I move, / I walk, / I work, / I go up and down, / I am never still”, says a squirrel in verse to a sorrel in a fable by Tomás by Iriarte. “So many comings and goings, / so many twists and turns / (I want, my friend, / for you to tell me), / is that of any use?”, replies the sorrel.
Well yes, until now, Alvise had been very useful with his many comings and goings, his many twists and turns, as a propagator of hoaxes that he disguised as the scourge of the corrupt: 803,545 votes and three seats for his party in the legislative elections. . the European Parliament since last June. But the real news of its illegal financing or its fiscal irregularity – or both – will now be very useful to the Supreme Court, that honest court in which the PP – one of the main victims of Alvise’s political emergence – has practically no influence.
