Alejandro Fernández Álvarez (born 30 May 1976)[1] is a Spanish politician and political scientist who has been the leader of the People's Party of Catalonia since 2018.

Born in Tarragona to a lorry driver father and domestic worker mother, Fernández graduated in Political Science and Administration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

[4] In his campaign for the 2021 Catalan election, Fernández proposed ending Catalonia's separate police and judicial system, ending the region's public-private diplomacy consortium DiploCat ("partisan propaganda with public money"), and ensuring neutrality of TV3, Catalunya Ràdio and universities.

[6] Fernández remained his party's lead candidate for the 2024 Catalan regional election, more than tripling their votes and quintupling their seats to 15.

The PP overtook Vox as the biggest party on the anti-independence right, coming second overall in several major cities and third in Barcelona.