Neos: This is the radical network that tries to unite the PP and Vox | Spain
Neos is an acronym for « north, east, west and south. » There is a reason for that name. The foundation that has part of a premise, to which its president has put words, Jaime Mayor Oreja: Occidente – Suffularly Spain – has lost its moral compass, which leads to normalize the « crime » of abortion and put « the story of evolution » Darwinista to « the » the truth of creation « . The alleged abandonment of Christian roots is not the only fixation of former Interior Minister of the Popular Party. The disappearance of ETA, usually insist, has been a mere dissimulation to hide its last triumph through the new « popular front », which puts the Spanish nation at existential risk. This is the worldview of the greatest ear, which these days monopolizes spotlights in the Spanish right with the proposal of Neos to unite the PP and Vox in a “minimal program” not to disperse strength before such an gloomy panorama. But, beyond the former leader of the Basque PP, what is neos? Who is behind the group that wants to be the glue between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal?
Registered in the National Foundations Registry with greater ear as president and the also Historical of the Basque PP María San Gil As vice president, its promoter is the Catholic Association of Propagandists, known for being behind the CEU universities and colleges and that has been since the arrival of Alfonso Bullón de Mendoza to the Presidency in 2018, gaining political presence based on campaigns against the Government, to which it advertises through its newspaper, The debate. In that medium last Sunday, one of his interviews presenting Spain in the abyss, The report that has served Neos to ask the PP and Vox to « leave differences » aside. « Spain is not dead, but agonizes, » he says. In an article in ABCGreater ear glimpses « a new disaster like that of 98 ».
Neos is on the report of the report. Only this week, he has had acts in the Palace of San José in Bilbao and at the College of Physicians of Malaga, in this case with the presence of Esperanza Aguirre with Major Oreja and María San Gil. « When Neos was born, in 2021, they promised to boost a conservative 15-M. But their activity today is more in halls than in the street, » says a former collaborator who has marked distances. « They are first of all conservatives. Only later, Catholics, a feature that they see necessary to be a real conservative, » he adds. Both traces, the Catholic and the conservative, are clearly seen in the amalgam of allied groups of Neos. One of US is a European Federation of Anti -abortion entities. We will collect crosses demolished by the Memory Law. Rooted claims the legacy of Isabel the Catholic. All these entities of the radical self -domening « provida » converge in Neos, a network with which the Church also collaborates through the Catholic University of Valencia.
In the Board of Trustees, with 14 men and six women, along with Major Oreja and San Gil there are exparliamentarians of the two great right -wing games. Of Vox, Francisco Contreras, who in Congress was dedicated to disregard the threat of climate change. Of the PP, Luis Peral, who in 2021 sued the Constitutional Court before European Justice for its delay in the Judgment on the Abortion Law. The former UCD minister Ignacio Camuñas, who, after an ephemeral step in the Vox foundation, in an act of the PP in 2021 with Pablo Casado said that Franco had not given a coup d’etat in 1936 and that the culprit of the civil war was the Republican government. And there are names of the business field (Francisco Salazar, former general director of the Association of stock market companies; Juan Félix Huarte, president of Uriel Inversiones) and educational (María Calvo, defender of the separation in different classrooms of children).
It is also in the Lola Velarde Board, close collaborator of Major Oreja and director of another entity, political network of values, of which the former minister himself is honorary president. Formed by ultraconservative politicians and activists from Europe, America and Africa, this entity celebrated a summit anti -abortion who mobilized half a hundred speakers, including defenders of the homosexual conversion therapies and oppositors to abortion even after violation.
If neos tries to give a certain appearance of neutrality between the PP and Vox, the inclination towards the Ultra family is more evident in the Securities Political Network, which gives international radio to the conglomerate of greater ear. Although in his advisory council there is a high position of the Government of Cantabria of the PP, Javier Puente, his links with extremist political organizations are much more abundant and narrow. Not in vain, José Antonio Kast’s Policy Network, leader of the Chilean ultra -right pardon a career of sexual abuse of minors.
In 2023 and 2024 Securities Political Network, donations of 18,000 euros were made to a Congress in Croatia organized by European conservatives and reformists, the extreme right group of the Eurocamara to which the last legislature belonged Vox, according to the annual reports of the EU on the finances of the parties. The relationship of neos with a value network, organization under strong Hungarian influence, is more than narrow: up to 2022 shared the same CIF, and only then the international branch became a separate entity, they explain to El País spokesmen of both organizations.
Savater, Ayuso, Álvare de Toledo
The activity of Neos consists of a continuous dissemination of messages, articles and reports, as well as acts of acts. Although the network priority picture is marked by the historical fixations of greater ear – « ETA has won » and is the « main ally » of Pedro Sánchez, has maintained during the promotion of his proposal -, gradually gains the immigration alert and the complaint against the « culture of cancellation. » To his report against the 2030 Agenda, which warns of the « totalitarian dyes » of the « culture Woke“Neos added in March the invitation to Spain of Agustín Laje, head of Javier Milei in Argentina, which presumes to be the maximum expression of the“ political incorrectness. ”All that fits in neos: from the traditionalist conservatism of solemn speech of major, to the systematic“ provocation ”to the“ left -handed ”of Laje, which in his act with neos last month Feminists are fought « with personal hygiene. »
Despite his ideological proximity to Vox, Neos tries to contribute some variety to his actions, in which he has managed to involve Fernando Savater and PP figures. This is the case of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso – who participated in the act in December Mexico and Spain, friends forever—, The deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo and the president of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, who this week claimed to have read Spain in the abyss with « attention, respect and a lot of concern. »
It has not been the dominant tonic of the party. Except for cases like Esperanza Aguirre, excited about the report, in the PP has dominated silence. The management did not respond to this newspaper about its position before the unit proposal with Vox. As for the Abascal party, the reception has been cold. His spokesman, José Antonio Fúster, has affirmed that the idea of Neos is « well -intentioned », but « naive » because the PP, he maintains, is close to the PSOE. From Neos, a spokesman avoids criticizing the reactions: « It is not for us to judge the matches. »
Despite the effort of Neos for showing diversity of ideological profiles, Just Sernawho has been a professor of History of the University of Valencia, has detected in the texts of the entity a “ultramontane” matrix that would connect with the cleric Rafael de Vélez, precursor of the “reactionary thought” already more than two centuries ago. And he adds: « The name is not a coincidence. At the end of the 19th century, their most exalted liberal opponents called ‘the ultra -matolic’ » ». » Serna sees the discourse of neos dyed of « apocalyptic » ideas with « guerracivilist resonances. » Under a layer of constitutionalism, in his texts there are, however, « echoes », he says, of thinkers such as the Frenchman Joseph de Maistre, opposed to the ideas of the Enlightenment. It is a « nationalCatholic background » with which, concludes Serna, Neos « aspires to ideologically nourish » to the PP and Vox, which at the moment resist the call to the unity of this foundation. The most ear trajectory leaves a certainty: it will continue to insist.
