The 29N elections will have a new party that will fight to reach the Congress of Deputies. The lawyer Miriam González presented this Saturday in Madrid Democracia21, the new political formation with which she aspires to break with the traditional parties, seduce the center voter and "regenerate Spanish democracy." The lawyer from Valladolid maintains that Spain is experiencing a crisis of State functionality that is impossible to solve through traditional structures.
With a speech thus focused on the regeneration of Spanish politics and the modernization of the State, Gónzalez aspires to bring "another policy" to the Cortes. Born in 1968, González is a lawyer specialized in international trade and has a solid professional career. Before launching this political project, he has toured the entire country with the España Mejor platform, founded in 2023 to promote public policy proposals.
In 2016, she also created the Inspiring Girls International Foundation, a global charity present in 40 countries and dedicated to raising the aspirations of young women, putting them in contact with female role models from all sectors. On the other hand, González has participated in the Boards of several international companies and has been part of the international advisory board of the Círculo de Empresarios in Spain, the European Council on Foreign Relations and several educational institutions.
Throughout her career, González has been a professor of international trade policy at Stanford University, in California, and regularly collaborates in national and international media. She is the author of the book Give Me Democracy, focused precisely on the need for profound political reform in Spain.
González is also no stranger to politics, as she is married to Nick Clegg, former British deputy prime minister between 2010 and 2015 in David Cameron's government, which led González to immerse herself in UK politics and live in those years between London and Brussels, a period in which she also became a media figure in the British country.
A "reformist, ambitious and strategic" project
In González's words, Democracia21 aspires to be a "reformist, ambitious and strategic" project aimed above all at "modernizing Spanish democracy." In her presentation, the lawyer was supported, in addition to her husband, by former members of Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), such as the former deputy in Congress Rafael Calduch, or the MEPs Fernando Maura and Beatriz Becerra.
The lawyer assures that she is running for election because she has "a monumental debt to settle with the country" that allowed a granddaughter of farmers from Olmedo, Valladolid, to go to study in Belgium with a scholarship. In his opinion, Spain's "number one priority" is to "recover social mobility." "Young people have to know that with their effort and work they can go further. That we are going to put the system in their favor, not against them," he says.
"There are many of us in this country who are tired of voting with our noses covered to see that everyone does the same things, taking advantage of the system and forgetting about the people," González highlighted, criticizing a "system that does not respond and politicians who are not up to the task." "In Spain we cannot continue with two iron blocs without anything that favors consensus, because we are going to destroy the country's potential together," he added in the presentation of the party.
Among their measures, this party is committed to reducing all housing taxes for those under 35 years of age, they advocate depoliticizing the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) of the parties that control it and they demand to combat corruption by establishing courts specialized in it. They also choose to eliminate voter elections, cut party subsidies and limit all mandates to two. Its program also includes an "overhaul of education", with more flexible degrees and more practices, the elimination of obstacles to entrepreneurship and a "sustainable policy of wage increases."
In immigration matters, González sees this aspect as an "asset and a competitive advantage", but defends a "sensible and sensible" policy. "We have to banish xenophobic speeches, but deciding who enters, how they enter, when they enter and when they leave if they have to leave," he explained.
