Feijóo does not agree but confesses that his real pain is “the shock” of his son for coming to Madrid

Alberto Núñez Feijóo It has been this week that the great protagonist of current politics ends. The former Galician president has defended his decision to suspend the negotiations on the CGPJ with the excuse that Pedro Sanchez he was going to reduce the sentences for the crime of sedition to please his parliamentary partners and because of the imperative need to stay in government.

From the left, the opposition leader is accused of giving in to pressure from the far right wing of the PP or even Vox and of losing the category of statesman and the legitimacy to structure a government option from the center right.

But in addition to this Feijóo, the magazine Esquire In its November issue, it offers us a much more personal image of the politician born in Orense 61 years ago. With whom he was able to agree on a life project almost ten years ago is with Eva Cardenas (1965), the businesswoman from Coruña, former director of Inditex and mother of her five-year-old son.

“I am at the beginning of my last quarter, but I have already played three”, says Feijóo in the interview granted to the aforementioned publication, in which, in a way, he regrets having left his land to serve his country and his party : “You drag many things with you. You leave Galicia that has given you everything, a family rooted there accompanies you,” explains the popular leader. “From the family point of view it has been hard. Notice that we had to put a child in a car on a Saturday to bring him to Madrid and start at a new school on a Monday”, recalls the popular senator.

“At his age he left everything behind: his city, his friends, the square where he played. It affected me to see it. It’s something I experienced myself because at the age of nine I went as an intern from a town in Ourense to León. I remember perfectly what it was like entering a huge, new school, where you got lost in the corridors, you didn’t know how to go to class, how to go to the dining room or return to the bedroom. It had to be hard for him, “says Feijóo.

“It is also not easy to tell your mother that in a matter of days we left everything to go to Madrid,” he admits. “But despite the impact I am convinced that this is an opportunity. I am sure that one day my son will understand. His mother, Eva, already knew the change well, she was already working in Madrid and knows well what this is,” he says.

“I was in Madrid from 1996 to 2003, and I have to admit that at first I didn’t want to come and then I didn’t want to leave here. What has affected me the most is the shock for my son, 5 years old. Then, it is true that the sea is missed. There he had been president for 13 years and had won four elections with increasingly better results. Now I have gone from that to being head of the opposition and pretending that they vote for me. It’s true, the sea is far, the forest is far, but Madrid is an amazing city and the kid will forge himself with more strength, he will get to know another environment”.

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In addition to how the change has affected him personally, both him and the woman he lives with and his son, Feijóo speaks in the magazine about other aspects that have nothing to do with politics. For example, he reveals that for him “the perfect drink is water” but admits that “a toasted non-alcoholic beer has no contraindication” and that he drinks “wine for dinner at home with friends”. He is not very long-drinking, he says: “Little distilled beverages, except for a gin and tonic from time to time.” His musical tastes range from Luis Eduardo Aute, Leonard Cohen or Sabina, to the Who, Supertramp, Creedence. or C. Tangana.

Father at age 55

But where this personal and unusual Feijóo is most bare and honest, with turtleneck in the hottest October of the century, it is when referring to your little one. “Me I always wanted to have a son because I think that a person who has the possibility of being a father and is not loses something indescribable. And the truth is that now, when I see him, I see myself. “Having a child is the most important thing a person can do. Having him at 55, in the last quarter of the match, has made me immensely happy. Nothing fills you up more and nothing completes you more. And it also forces me to see cartoons, which is something I haven’t done since my earliest childhood! He gives me a reason to get up every day. For a long time my drive was to have to do this or that, go to Parliament, give a speech, approve such a budget. Now my first concern in the morning is, “How’s this guy? The first question I ask his mom is, “Hey, how’s he doing?” When he gets home from school and I can see him, unfortunately so often It’s the best of the day.”