2019 Oh stale Christmas
"At the International Space Station they are dazzled by the lights of Vigo
. They have just put on their sunglasses, because Vigo's Christmas light has already reached 400 kilometers in height."
The phrase was pronounced on Saturday, November 20, by Abel Caballero and it is just one more in the list of hundreds of interventions that have made him who he is today, the most viral mayor and the king of Christmas lights.
He came to challenge the mayors of Paris, New York, London, Berlin and Tokyo for Christmas lights and not even the pandemic stopped him in his growth until he installed this 202
1 eleven million led lights
, showing off self-confidence and in his city, which on Saturday led him to assure that, with the lighting of the lights of Vigo, "we are starting Christmas all over the planet".
This is Abel Caballero, who this Monday premiered in 'El Hormiguero 3.0'.
Even before his Christmas became famous and he released the slightest bit of change
"Santa Claus is going to stay in Vigo", he
began to carve out a fame of populist and folksy that nowadays no one disputes.
Since in 2007 he became mayor of Vigo for the PSOE, he has smashed all the records that lie ahead of him.
His electoral support has been increasing until
in 2019 he became the most voted mayor of a large city in democracy.
Almost 70% of the voters gave their support,
making it unbeatable and supporting a political project based on the unlimited defense of the benefits of their city and on promoting to unsuspected levels the pull of Christmas in the main city of Galicia.
A personalist policy in which everything is about selling, selling Vigo and, incidentally, also selling himself.
But Caballero is much more than the viral mayor who has imitators bowling all over Spain and monopolizes with his speeches, mainly those in English, minutes on television programs such as
Buenafuente's 'Late Motiv', 'Zapeando' or, now , 'El Hormiguero'.
He has extensive experience as a teacher, economist and politician, and his resume even includes a ministry.
Between 1985 and 1987 he was responsible for Transport, Tourism and Communications during the Government of
Felipe González.
Doctor of economics and showman
His training has nothing to envy that of the most prestigious academics. The same politician who inaugurates a Primark in the purest 'Welcome, Mister Marshall' style
- "Viva Primark. Long life to Primark at Vigo. Viva Vigo"
, said in October at the inauguration of the new shopping center in the city - he is a doctor in Economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Santiago de Compostela and has a master's degree in Economics from the University of Essex, in addition to the official title of the Merchant Marine.
Caballero developed his work as a teacher in various Spanish and European universities and has made his academic career compatible with politics since the 1980s.
In his youth he had belonged to the Communist Party and in 1980 he joined the PSOE
, a party with which, in addition to being minister He was a deputy in the Congress of Deputies for 15 years and in the Parliament of Galicia for another four.
Accustomed to winning elections and having academic and political recognition, he also knew the troubles of public life in 2001, when he tried to take the presidency of the Xunta de Galicia from Manuel Fraga (PP) and was left with
the worst results in the history of the PSOE in the community.
After this blow, he left public life for four years and took refuge in teaching, but returned in 2005 as president of the Vigo Port Authority and with batteries so charged that at 75 years old he is still in top shape, reinvented as a mayor 'showman' who
does not hesitate to dance the 'swish swish'
when it was fashionable or the "Rasputin Challenge" of TikTok.
The 'mayor of mayors'
Author of numerous books both in the literary and professional fields, a contributor to various scientific journals and a partner in the development of different research projects related to transport, he is currently also president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP).
"The mayor of mayors,"
says one of his most faithful defenders, the president of the Pontevedra Provincial Council, Carmela Silva.
Populist is one of the adjectives most dedicated to him, although he prefers to say that it is "popular."
In his city, nobody disputes that it is.
And he has earned it hard, because since he is mayor, every day he goes for a walk through a corner of Vigo, talks to all the neighbors, takes notes when they ask for a new bank or a light point and gets to star in 15 events up to date.
Accustomed to victories, he is not characterized by accepting criticism well, and for years he
has had a public confrontation with the Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo
, although he always ends up getting out of trouble with a joke or with a phrase that, poorly pronounced in English Despite his doctorate at Cambridge, he reports a new viral video.
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