- The FAES is the ideological instrument used by the former President of the Spanish Government, José María Aznar, to spread his neoconservative thinking. The foundation has been financed in recent years by construction companies, technological multinationals, casinos, financial institutions, energy companies and telecommunications companies, among others.
According to the documentation obtained by Senator Compromís Carles Mulet, between 2012 and 2015, the Foundation for Social Studies and Research (FAES) received donations from the main Spanish companies amounting to three million euros, according to the Weekly El Temps.
Mulet has assured that the construction companies ACS, OHL and Ferrovial, the banking entities Santander and BBVA, the supermarket Mercadona, the energy company Iberdrola and the multinational technological company Google, among others, have financed initiatives of the Aznarista foundation.
The 'think tank' of pp separated from the right-wing party FAES in 2016 and the relationship between Rajoy and Aznar grew more and more cold. Now, from the hand of Pablo Casado and become an ideologist of the parties of the Spanish right (pp, Citizens and VOX), it seems that the new golden age of the Aznarismo has come.