2023-10-02 23:06:11
The management of Vox has avoided giving explanations about the information published this Monday by elDiario.es regarding the financing of Disenso, the Foundation promoted in 2020 by the far-right party chaired by Santiago Abascal. The accounts accessed by this media reveal that the far-right party has transferred almost seven million euros to its think tank in four years. The last transfer is 1.5 million and was made this same year, between January and June.
Vox prevents elDiario.es from asking about the millionaire transfers to Abascal’s foundation
Santiago Abascal has not referred to this matter in his appearance this Monday afternoon in the Congress of Deputies after his reception with King Felipe VI with whom he met on the occasion of the new round of contacts that the monarch has started with the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups in view of the possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez. The leader of Vox has not admitted questions “due to the discreet nature of the conversations” with the king. Nor has any of the trustees of this Foundation denied or clarified these income.
In the morning, the general secretary of the far-right party, Ignacio Garriga, held a press conference at the national headquarters on Bambú Street, but he also did not refer to this information, which no journalist asked him about. The veto that Vox maintains against elDiario.es and other media outlets prevented anyone from asking about it.
On the other hand, several former Vox leaders have spoken out. The first to react has been the former deputy for Granada Macarena Olona, who abandoned the formation amid harsh criticism of the party leadership and its leaders after her failure in the Andalusian regional elections, in which she was the candidate of Vox. In a first, brief comment on Twitter, Olona linked the information from elDiario.es and limited himself to pointing out that “the accusations of corruption” of his former formation “can be settled with a stroke of a pen: by showing model 347”, that is, a declaration to the Treasury of the operations that the party has carried out “with third parties”.
Allegations of corruption can be settled with a stroke of a pen: by showing the #modelo347. https://t.co/wOWLbyqHYe
— Macarena Olona (@Macarena_Olona) October 2, 2023
Olona, who already denounced these practices in an interview with Jordi Évole, insists on that idea in conversation with this editorial team. “Accusations of corruption can be settled with a stroke of a pen, showing model 347. That is what the party I believed in would do,” he says. “They say that whoever warns is not a traitor. I warned and I regret that some saw me as a traitor then. “She was just a grassroots supporter disappointed by the drift of Vox who hoped that the plan for Spain that the party represented for many would not become a pension plan for some,” she adds.
“Abascal’s retirement insurance”
Juan José Liarte, the former regional representative of Vox Murcia, also supports his former party partner and believes that the Disenso Foundation “is Abascal’s retirement insurance.” “The amounts that the party receives from the institutions and its members for the development of political activity are diverted to Disenso, which becomes, in practice, a private pension fund for Abascal and his colleagues,” he maintains. he.
Liarte was expelled from Vox in June 2022 along with two other regional deputies of the far-right party in Murcia, but Justice annulled the decision and forced the management to reinstate them, although both he and Francisco José Carrera –another of those purged- They ended up requesting their voluntary withdrawal from training. Precisely the expulsion of the three Murcian deputies was due to the fact that the party accused them of “unilaterally deciding to dismiss four workers from their parliamentary group and of” removing national leaders as holders of the group’s accounts, including Ortega Smith. . In a letter they sent to Abascal, the dissidents denounced that the Organization Secretariat “ordered them to carry out illegal management of the parliamentary group’s funds” and that in the Region of Murcia “acts of illegal financing of the party were carried out.”
The Alicante coordinator of the formation, Carmen Gomis, has also intervened in the matter, who left Vox disappointed with its “non-transparent practices” and promoted a new party: TúPatria. “When Vox entered the political scene, it always announced the rejection of public subsidies, stating that parties, associations and foundations should be financed with money from their members,” says Gomis. “But all this changed when they obtained their first public representatives: claiming that they had to fight on equal terms, their principles of ending the expense generated by politics for the Spanish people ended up in a drawer,” she laments.
The president of TúPatria believes that “now everything has changed and Vox would have to give transparent explanations of the reason for this drift in their financing and the destination they are giving it.”
Another former member of Vox who has given his opinion is Alfonso Galdón, who promoted the Valores party in Murcia. Galdón chaired the Family Forum in that region and more than a year ago he left Santiago Abascal’s formation after running to lead the party leadership there. In the end he ended up denouncing irregularities in the process and contested the primaries, but the party rejected his claim. It was then that he left Vox and announced his intention to found a new political project.
Regarding the information published by elDiario, Galdón points out: “I neither remove nor add anything new to what the article says” in elDiario.es. “But it is interesting to see how those who came to put an end to the beach bars supported by public money have created one.”
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