Alfonso Rueda (Pontevedra 1968) has not only revalidated the absolute majority of the PP in Galicia with 40 deputies. The Galician dolphin has saved the leader. The popular Galicians have experienced their most atypical campaign. They have been fifteen days of heart attack in which not only the Xunta was at stake, but also the project of Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the head of the PP.
Rueda was facing his first elections as head of the poster, since he has always been Feijóo's number two, in whose shadow he has been forged since in 2005 he asked him to be his general secretary in the Galician PP, in charge of preparing the party for the post-Fraguism , and above all put an end to the provincial baronies in a Galicia too accustomed to provincial presidents setting the pace. In fact, Alfonso Rueda's main decision as president of the Galician PP was to remove José Manuel Baltar from the presidency of the Ourense Provincial Council, which he had inherited from his father, José Luis Baltar. The president of the Xunta de Galicia had the mission of keeping the PP in power and adding a new absolute majority to the four successive ones that Feijóo achieved.
The membership of his father, José Antonio Rueda Crespo, to the Galician Coalition, where It did not last long and in 1993 he was already president of Nuevas Generaciones de Pontevedra, the youth branch of the PP. He was already studying law in Santiago de Compostela, he had already met his wife, Marta, and after working some occasional jobs, such as selling investment funds and doing military service, he followed the family's advice and prepared the exams for secretary of the City Council, which allowed him to dedicate himself to politics, contravening his father's recommendations.
During his stay in Nuevas Generaciones he caught the attention of the then general secretary of the PP, And it was the name that Palmou gave to Feijóo when, once at the head of the PP, he asked him for advice on who to appoint as the party's number two to recover the Xunta, and he was the architect of the campaign that ended with the bipartite of PSdGa and BNG to end of 2005.
Since then and until the current president of the PP left the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda has been his shadow, first as Minister of the Presidency, Public Administrations and Justice; then vice president, and finally his successor. Although few people knew him when he became president not two years ago after Feijóo left for Madrid, Rueda has dedicated himself to visiting every corner of Galicia and making himself known, and he achieves it, they say, with a beer and a skewer of tortilla in the middle, because he is close, frank, a good person, “a super normal guy,” say his daughters, Beatriz and Martes, 19 and 17 years old, in a video that the PP recently released. However, they do not spare him any criticism “he is very unpunctual,” they say.
A long-distance runner, not only in politics, but in real life, since he continues training to run, a passion that he shares with the bicycle and the motorcycle, with which he gets lost when he wants to disconnect.
