Alvise Pérez, a political agitator and social media personality in Spain, managed to collect the 15,000 signatures needed to run in the European elections in just two weeks. He did so by mobilising the hundreds of thousands of followers he has accumulated on his Telegram and Instagram channels. For years, Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez Fernández has built up a huge virtual community around his controversial videos in which he denounces the alleged corruption of politicians and the institutional and moral deterioration he believes Spain and Europe are suffering. An agitator of protests, such as those agai…