Juan Carlos Girauta lost his seat in the Ciudadanos debacle in the 2019 elections. In the time he has been out of professional politics, he has had his accounts cleaned up thanks to conservative media and Zionist organizations, according to the declaration of interests he presented to the European Parliament, where he has returned, but this time with the help of Vox.
The far-right MEP declares around 10,000 euros of monthly income from his work activity over the last three years, which is the period that the European Parliament requires to be declared when taking up his seat. Girauta definitively left Ciudadanos in 2020 when Inés Arrimadas decided to support the state of alarm in the midst of the pandemic.
3,000 euros a month come from Jewish organisations. Girauta says that he has been an “adviser to a Spanish-Jewish foundation” that he does not reveal, for which he received 2,000 euros a month. He was also a lawyer for the ACOM association, for which he received a salary of 1,000 euros a month, although in neither case does he define the period in which he provided services.
The ACOM lobby (Action and Communication on the Middle East) defines itself as a “Spanish, non-denominational and independent organization that strengthens the relationship between Spain and Israel through joint work with the government, political parties and civil society.”
Girauta earned 6,000 euros a month as a columnist for ABC between 2021 and 2023. In 2024, El Debate raised his salary and paid him 7,000 euros a month for his articles.
The Vox MEP also mentions that he is the president of Pie en Pared (although he was not paid any salary). That was the kind of think tank he set up with Marcos de Quinto, the former president of Coca-Cola who was also a Ciudadanos deputy in Congress. At that time, both assured that it was not in their plans to join any political party and they launched this association to “combat woke leftism”.
Less than two years later, Girauta has ended up on Vox’s list for the European Parliament. The former MEP with Ciudadanos, and therefore a member of the liberal family, is now part of one of the most extreme groups in the European Parliament (Patriots for Europe) together with parties such as Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National or Matteo Salvini’s La Liga. The European People’s Party includes this group in the ‘cordon sanitaire’ around the extreme right with which they are excluded from agreements and representative positions.
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