The war between Macarena Olona and Vox is still open. The former leader of the party, through a hard interview of more than two hours granted this Sunday to Jordi Évole, lashed out harshly against his former colleagues, hinted at the direct link between the formation and people of neo-Nazi ideology, opined that Santiago Abascal has no the last word on the most sensitive organic matters and outlined possible irregularities with public money at the Fundación Disenso, dependent on Vox.
This last point, on which Olona already expressed his suspicions last November in an interview with EL MUNDO, has reactivated the battle between the State lawyer and what until a few months ago was his party. In fact, Olona challenged the party leadership this Sunday to provide the necessary documents, specifically the one known as model 347 of the Tax Agency, which proves the correct financing and use of the 4.5 million euros that Vox has transmitted to Fundación Disenso in recent times through two donations.
Some accusations that Vox rejects outright. The formation of Santiago Abascal, who woke up this Monday with graffiti of “traitors” and “queers” on the facade of his headquarters in Madrid, minimizes Olona’s offensive and calls his statements a “bad joke”. “It’s a matter of primary education. Look at the annual accounts, really,” summarized Vox’s Vice President of Political Action, Jorge Buxadé, who defended the “transparency” of the foundation and linked it to the “scrutiny” to which it is constantly subjected to the formation of the three letters: “Dissent is Vox”, he sentenced.
The foundation, Buxadé insisted, “has its annual accounts audited with the control of Vox’s own audit.” In addition, party sources add, it is not only subject to the Party Financing Law, but also to the control of the Court of Accounts. The two donations that Olona mentioned in his interview, they emphasize, have been reflected respectively in the income statements of the previous year or in the Assembly that will be convened in the coming days and that is expected to be held in March.
The number three of Vox, in his usual intervention at a press conference, as every Monday, avoided hand-to-hand with his former party partner and pointed directly to the press for “orchestrating a campaign” to “attack” and try to sink to the “alternative” that Vox supposes. Jorge Buxadé was accompanied in the press room by various senior party officials and leaders in Congress and the Senate, such as Iván Espinosa de los Monteros.
Through this two-hour interview in prime time, Macarena Olona reappeared after a couple of months keeping a low profile. After disembarking with her civic platform in Madrid at the beginning of November, the former leader of Vox reduced her appearance in the media and even rejoined the State Attorney’s Office after a period of leave. In these months, she registered in Congress the popular legislative initiative (ILP) that she herself led against “gender ideology” and continued, although to a lesser extent, holding conferences at universities and debate centers on the legality of states of alarm.
Those appearances, added to the Camino de Santiago that he made at the end of August with his followers, were understood in the Vox apparatus as a pulse against the leadership of Santiago Abascal and his team. In fact, Olona took advantage of the focus of his calls to challenge what until a few months ago was his party: “This is only the beginning of the road, it will be the Spanish who decide when I go home. I continue on the path that I aspired to follow with Vox”, she asserted in Murcia, after facing several dozen radicals who were trying to prevent her access to the university, and just a couple of days after Iván Espinosa de los Monteros rejected the reinstatement that she had requested of Abascal with that already mythical “this is the end of the road”.
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