2023-11-09 16:22:01
The Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadrasfounder of Vox and reference of the Popular Party (PP), was shot in the face on a street in Madrid. He was urgently hospitalized.
Vidal-Quadras, 78, chaired the conservative party in the Spanish region of Catalonia in the 1990s and then was an MEP until 2014, after which he briefly moved to Spain’s far-right Vox party.
These sources explained that Vidal Cuadras received shot in the face around 1:30 p.m. local time (12:30 GMT) in the central Núñez de Balboa street in the capital of Spain.
The Police are looking for a person who he fled on a motorcycle with a black helmet after shooting the politician.
The investigation is being carried out by a homicide unit and at the moment there are no arrests, these sources indicated.
The Samur-Civil Protection emergency service reported that the injured man He was conscious and was taken to a hospital in Madrid.while the local police cordoned off the area.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, in a photo from 2009. Photo: AP
Vidal-Quadras had a notable role in Spanish politics, not only Catalan politics, until after a disagreement with the conservatives’ pact with Catalan nationalists to govern in Spain, he moved to Brussels, where in addition to being an MEP he was vice president of the European Parliament. between 1999 and 2014.
That last year he left the PP, after thirty years as a member of the party, alleging a lack of internal democracy and disagreements with its national leadership, and joined the far-right Vox, although he only spent one year between differences also with the leadership of this formation. EFE
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