The former president of Nuevas Generaciones, Beatriz Fanjul, has decided not to run again as a candidate for the Partido Popular in Vizcaya in the general elections on November 29. She has communicated this to the party leadership, to which she has thanked for considering her again to integrate the lists.
"I am 35 years old and I want to do other things," Fanjul stated in statements to Europa Press, after 'El Correo' reported that the Basque deputy will not lead the PP candidacy for Vizcaya in the upcoming general elections.
From the national leadership of the PP, they explained that Fanjul conveyed to the organization "quite some time ago," before the call for the general elections, her intention to start a new professional stage. "We wish her the best," the same sources added.
Trajectory in Congress and in Nuevas Generaciones
Fanjul (Bilbao, 1991) made the leap to state politics in 2019 with Pablo Casado, then leader of the PP, who placed her as number one for Vizcaya in the general elections of April of that year. In the electoral repeat in November, after the negotiations between PSOE and Podemos failed, she again headed the Vizcayan list.
At first, she was left without a seat, but the PP ended up recovering the mandate thanks to the overseas vote and Fanjul became the only popular deputy from the Basque Country, compared to the six representatives of the PNV. In July 2023, she renewed her seat for Vizcaya and, in that call, the PP also secured a deputy from Álava.
In April 2021, Casado placed her at the head of Nuevas Generaciones. "I am not one to give lessons to anyone, but to learn them," she stated on April 11 of that year in her debut speech as president of the PP's youth organization, a responsibility she held until July 2026, when the Madrilenian Ignacio Dancausa took over the direction of NNGG.
Leap to the private sector and support for the Basque PP
Fanjul has emphasized that she feels "happy" and "grateful" to the Partido Popular for the opportunity to preside over Nuevas Generaciones and hold a seat in Congress. "The PP has given me everything. I am a product of the PP," she has remarked.
Despite the leadership proposing her to continue as a candidate, she has admitted that, at 35, she wants to take the step to the private sector and leave the front line of politics. "I want to work in other sectors," she has indicated, without yet specifying what her new professional direction will be.
In any case, he has made it clear that he will continue to support his party in the general campaign in the Basque Country. He has assured that "of course" he will campaign for the Basque PP. "Wherever Tellado wants," he emphasized, referring to the general secretary of the PP and head of the 'popular' campaign.
Internal recognition and message from the PP leadership
Sources from the national leadership of the PP have reiterated to Europa Press that Fanjul communicated in advance of the electoral date his desire to face "new professional experiences," a decision that, they emphasize, he conveyed "with loyalty and expressing a vocation for professional growth" that has the party's support.
Those same sources have added that Fanjul even offered to resign from his seat beforehand so that another person on the list could access Congress if the party deemed it appropriate.
From Genoa, they emphasize that now a phase of new professional challenges opens up for her and wish her "the best." Likewise, they value that she had "the courage" to resign from heading the list and leave her "comfort zone to develop her career in the private sector." "There is much more dignity in Bea Fanjul's departure than in Sánchez's continuity," those sources have concluded.