User:Basque mapping/sandbox/Alvise Pérez

Luis "Alvise" Pérez Fernández (born 26 February 1990) is a Spanish internet personality, politician and former political advisor.

He served as chief of staff of former leader of Citizens (Cs) in the Valencian Community Toni Cantó and lead candidate of Se Acabó La Fiesta in the 2024 European Parliament election.

Pérez joined Union, Progress and Democracy during his studies at university.

Luis Pérez Fernández was born on 26 February 1990 in Seville, the youngest of four children.

His father was a local businessman and his mother a housewife.

After ending secondary school, he had to take care of his ill grandmother, which forced him to attend the National University of Distance Education.

He enrolled to a double degree in Political Science and Public Administration.

In 2011 he joined the centrist Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) and hold some minor responsabilities in the regional branch of Andalusia.

In early 2012, at 22 years of age, Pérez moved to Leeds with his girlfriend and for a time worked as a dishwasher.

He later worked as a consultant for the Cervantes Institute while studyng a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Leeds.

Eventually, he left UPyD and joined the Liberal Youth, the youth wing of the British Liberal Democrats.

He became the first ever Spanish delegate at the International Federation of Liberal Youth general assembly not to be a member of a catalan nationalist party.

In late 2017, Pérez joined Citizens (Cs) attracted by the proposals of its leader Albert Rivera.

After passing a selection process, Pérez moved to Valencia in December 2018 and dropped out from university to start working as chief of staff of Cs at the Corts Valencianes.

Following the election, Pérez became criticized within the parliamentary group of Cs over the dismissal of some employees and his controversial statements on inmingration and gender-based violence.

Fellow former member of UPyD Toni Cantó, at the time a member of the Congress of Deputies, encouraged Pérez to return to Spain to be his campaign manager in the 2019 Valencian regional election.

In July 2019, Pérez drew attention over his insults against left-wing politicians and islamophobic commentaries in Twitter.

After Cs' collapse in the November 2019 Spanish election, Pérez was dissmissed as the chief of staff of Cantó less that a year after taking office.

Shortly after, Pérez resigned from the remaining of his positions and left Cs due to its "turn to the centre-left".

Subsequently, he moved to Madrid and announced being working on a new private project.

Shortly after leaving Cs, Pérez worked in a political consulting firm until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subsequently, he started preparing campaigns for lobbies and established Resistencia Popular S. L., a company through which he receives confidential information and then disseminates it on his social networks.

Due to the dissemination of these pieces of information he has been deemed as a propagator of fake news.

Thanks to his political activism Pérez became an online celebrity within the Spanish alt-right and began collaborating in Javier Negre's far-right Youtube channel EDATV.

In May 2020, he installed several placards in Madrid which depicted the face of the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez imitating the Big Brother and the text: "A good citizen obeys".

On 22 November 2020, his Twitter account was briefly suspended for a few hours over the spread of fake news.

Pérez received support from several public figures of Vox and used to express his support for the party until he criticized Vox MP Juan Luis Steegmann for his pro-vaccine stance.

On 13 December 2023 Pérez published in his Youtube channel an the first interview to former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales since his forced kiss to Jenni Hermoso.

Alvise himself had leaked a video of the footballers celebrating their victory in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and commenting the kiss, which lead to the suspension of his X (formerly Twitter) account.

After his X account being again suspended, Pérez began spreading his messages through his Telegram account, which as of May 2024 has almost 450,000 followers.

He used his Telegram account to promote the 2023 Spanish protests and led one of them towards the Congress of Deputies alongside founder of Desokupa Daniel Esteve.

On March 31, 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pérez tweeted that the former mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena had received at her home a personal ventilator from the company VitalAire to avoid going to a public hospital.

That same day, Carmena denied the information, calling them a slander and later that year she filed a lawsuit against Pérez.

Finally, on 16 March 2023, the Court of First Instance No. 59 of Madrid ordered Pérez to delete the tweet and pay €5,000 to Carmena.

Pérez has enganged in several legal feuds with jounalist Ana Pastor for statements he made in Twitter.

In January 2023 Pérez was fined €1,000 for insinuating in Twitter that Pastor's fact-checking company Newtral had committed irregularities and had not paid sufficient taxes.

Nonetheless, in February 2024, the Supreme Court annulled the sentence stablishing that his statements "were supported by an adequate factual basis".

Moreover, in July 2023 the Provincial Court of Madrid ordered him to pay €10,000 in damages to Pastor for publishing a picture of Pastor having dinner at a restaurant with her husband.

In January 2021, Pérez posted on his Twitter account two pictures of minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos in which he appeared alone on the terrace of his house next to a cage of birds along with the text "What would you think of the mental health of a Minister who spends all afternoon staring at a pair of caged birds?".

Although the tweet was deleted shortly after, the Ábalos sued Pérez.