Jorge Verstrynge
{{Short description|Spanish politician, activist and political scientist}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jorge Verstrynge
| image = File:Jorge Verstrynge 2013 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Verstrynge in 2013
| office5 = Secretary General of People's Alliance
| term_start5 = 1979
| term_end5 = 1986
| predecessor5 = Manuel Fraga
| successor5 = Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
| office6 = Member of the Congress of Deputies
| term_start6 = 1982
| term_end6 = 1989
| constituency6 = Seville and Madrid
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1948|09|22}}
| birth_place = Tangier
| spouse = Mercedes Revuelta{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}}
| children = Lilith Verstrynge
}}
Jorge Verstrynge Rojas (born September 22, 1948) is a Spanish former politician, activist and political scientist, professor in the Complutense University of Madrid.{{Sfn|González Castillejos|2014|p=125}} Close to neofascist movements in his youth and Secretary-General of People's Alliance in the 1980s, he experimented along his political career an ideological switch towards leftist positions.{{Sfn|Chicote|2016}}
Biography
File:Alfonso Guerra conversa con el secretario general de AP en el Congreso de los Diputados.jpeg in 1982]]
Born 22 September 1948 in Tangier,{{Sfn|González Castillejos|2014|p=125}} he is son of a Spanish mother and a Belgian father, Willy Verstrynge-Thalloen, follower of Léon Degrelle during the Second World War.{{Sfn|Vicent|1983}}{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}} During his youth in Morocco and Algeria he was also influenced by his stepfather, a French communist called René Mazel.{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}} He moved from France to Spain in order to finish his secondary education and entering the University.{{Sfn|Barbó|2014}} He became one of the proponents of Nouvelle Droite ideas within People's Alliance (AP).{{Sfn|Casals|1995|pp=235-239}}{{refn|group=lower-alpha|According to César Vidal, he was allegedly close to CEDADE neo-Nazi group before becoming Secretary General of People's Alliance.{{Sfn|Vidal|2000|p=105}} Xavier Casals argues his entry in the Spanish extreme right scene —despite signing an article in the CEDADE journal (actually a work by his father)— was not actually through the CEDADE ranks.{{Sfn|Casals|1995|p=238}}}}
Secretary General of AP from 1979 to 1986,{{Sfn|González Castillejos|2014|p=125}} he was considered the protégé of Manuel Fraga, leader of the party. He also was, within People's Alliance, one of the promoters of the Club del Sable ("Club of the Sabre").{{Sfn|González Cuevas|2009|p=274}}
He ran as AP's Mayoral candidate in the 1983 Madrid City Council election, but his candidature was beaten by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), led by the Mayor Enrique Tierno Galván.{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}} After a rift with Fraga, he left AP in 1986;{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}}{{Sfn|González Castillejos|2014|p=125}} he became member of the PSOE in 1993.{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}}{{Sfn|González Castillejos|2014|p=125}} He left the party, and became advisor of Francisco Frutos, leader of the United Left.{{Sfn|Rodríguez|2014}} In 2014 he became an advisor of Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos.{{Sfn|Chicote|2016}}
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References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/politica/201406/21/verstrynge-extremo-20140620184405.html|work=El Correo|date=2014-06-21|first=Jorge|last=Barbó|title=Los extremos de Verstrynge|access-date=2015-07-23|archive-date=2017-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518090830/http://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/politica/201406/21/verstrynge-extremo-20140620184405.html|url-status=dead}}
- {{Cite book|first=Xavier|last=Casals|isbn=84-253-2804-7|title=Neonazis en España. De las audiciones wagnerianas a los skinheads (1966-1995)|publisher=Grijalbo|year=1995|location=Barcelona|author-link=Xavier Casals}}
- {{Cite journal|url=https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-verstrynge-neofascista-aliado-natural-revolucion-bolivariana-201604060008_noticia.html|first=J.|last=Chicote|journal=ABC|title=Verstrynge, de neofascista a «aliado natural de la revolución bolivariana|date=16 April 2016}}
- {{Cite journal|journal=Cuadernos de Estudios Manchegos|issue=39|pages=121–146|year=2014|issn=0526-2623|title=Gestación y desarrollo de Alianza Popular en la provincia de Ciudad Real durante los años de la Transición (1976-1982)|first=Jorge|last=González Castillejos|url=http://biblioteca2.uclm.es/biblioteca/Ceclm/ARTREVISTAS/Cem/CEM39_gestacion_jorge.pdf|access-date=2015-07-23|archive-date=2015-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723221654/http://biblioteca2.uclm.es/biblioteca/Ceclm/ARTREVISTAS/Cem/CEM39_gestacion_jorge.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite journal|title=Las "otras" derechas en la España actual: teólogos, "racionalistas" y neoderechistas|first=Pedro Carlos|last=González Cuevas|journal=Bulletin d'histoire contemporaine de l'Espagne|issn=0987-4135|issue=44|year=2009|pages=263–278|publisher=Université de Provence}}
- {{Cite journal|url=http://www.tiempodehoy.com/espana/la-insolita-evolucion-politica-de-verstrynge |last=Rodríguez |first=Antonio |journal=Tiempo de Hoy |title=La insólita evolución política de Verstrynge |year=2014 |issn=0213-1951 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914133938/http://www.tiempodehoy.com/espana/la-insolita-evolucion-politica-de-verstrynge |archive-date=September 14, 2014 }}
- {{cite journal|journal=Los judíos en la España contemporánea: Historia y visiones, 1898-1998|others=In: Uriel Macías Kapón, Yolanda Moreno Koch, Ricardo Izquierdo Benito (Eds.)|title=El antisemitismo en la España contemporánea|publisher=Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha|year=2000|isbn=9788484270447|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8byG0JA3hyoC&pg=PA105|first=César|last=Vidal|author-link=César Vidal Manzanares}}
{{Commons category|Jorge Verstrynge}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://elpais.com/diario/1983/05/07/sociedad/421106402_850215.html|work=El País|date=1983-05-07|title=Jorge Verstrynge o el ardor|first=Manuel|last=Vicent|author-link=Manuel Vicent}}
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Category:People's Alliance (Spain) politicians
Category:Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid
Category:Spanish political scientists