PP revives Feijóo's 'Anotop At' slip with AI memes ahead of 29 November vote

A 2025 slip returns to the campaign

On 12 November the Partido Popular posted a video on its X account showing party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo in a car, smiling as he watched AI-generated images built around the 'Anotop At' slip. The post carried the caption 'First reactions'. The gaffe dates from 26 November 2025, when Feijóo, during a control session in Congress, told Pedro Sánchez that a television series about his years in power would one day be made. Trying to say the title, he stumbled into 'Anotop... At...', and Socialist deputies laughed. His team later said he had meant 'Anatomía de un farsante' (Anatomy of a fraud). The party has now taken the phrase back as the official campaign began for the general election on 29 November.

Memes, a footballer and a Kobe Bryant profile

The party's youth wing, Nuevas Generaciones, shared an AI image of Feijóo as a Barcelona footballer celebrating a goal, captioned 'Vaya farmeo de aura', a Gen Z expression that roughly means accumulating charisma. The wave began with a Nuevas Generaciones post on the night of 11 November, which swapped Feijóo's face onto a photo of the trapper Anuel AA. That tweet answered a video in which the YouTuber Jordi Wild announced that Santiago Abascal would not appear on his podcast. The post was signed 'EL MANUAL' with a blue heart, a nod to tweets by former director of the Office of the Government Presidency Iván Redondo, who uses the tag to promote his book, though with a red heart. The party's TikTok account changed its profile picture to a Feijóo image styled as Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star who died in 2020. Other montages place Feijóo with a World Cup trophy in a style resembling trap album covers.

Abascal's refusal and the Wild interview

Santiago Abascal, Vox's candidate, declined to take part in the Jordi Wild podcast after asking for the audiovisual rights to the interview, according to eldiario.es. Feijóo instead sat for an interview recorded on Thursday in Manresa, which was published on Friday 13 November at 10:00. El Mundo reported that the format was kept, with the interview published unedited, and that Feijóo wants to reconnect with voters aged 18 to 30. When asked about Abascal's refusal, Feijóo said he keeps his word. El Mundo's headline draws on one line from the conversation:

“I don't know English, but I know how to govern.”

El Mundo describes the two right-wing parties as locked in a technical tie in the polls and competing for Gen Z. Some users said the posts were embarrassing rather than helpful, and one commenter claimed, without evidence, that Socialist insiders were advising the party.

Strategy and precedent

Xataka compares the tactic with the Socialists' 2023 'Perro Sanxe' episode, in which an attack was turned into a positive asset. It notes that Feijóo, 65, spent 13 years as president of the Xunta de Galicia, and that his image has been less associated with youth culture. The outlet adds that it is too early to say whether the strategy will work, though it has gained traction online. Both parties are chasing the same younger voters, and the general election is set for 29 November.