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“I am living a ‘Vox History X’”. Former Vox deputy Macarena Olona this Sunday compared her experiences after leaving the far-right party to those of the protagonist of the movie American History X. The film, released in 1998, recounts the harassment suffered by a young man from Los Angeles by his ex-colleagues from the neo-Nazi organization to which he belonged, who come to assassinate his brother. “With this I am not wanting to say that Vox is a Nazi party”, she has explained during the extensive interview that she has starred in the program ‘Lo de Évole’, broadcast by La Sexta. “What I have come across are some attacks by people who praise Hitler and who are in the Vox environment,” she settled, when asked by Jordi Évole.
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Olona left Vox and abandoned active politics last July, after his candidacy for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía failed at the polls. But seven months later, he leaves the door open to return to the front lines. “If I return to active politics, it will be because I think I can occupy a space that is necessary to ensure the governability of this country,” he explained. On the option of returning to politics in a new party that she can found herself in the coming months, the former deputy has avoided giving a concrete answer. “I am with all those Spaniards who have been in abstention who are looking forward to finding a project in which they trust and that will awaken their illusion again. I don’t know if it will be one of the existing projects or a new one, ”she has stressed.
In an interview loaded with insinuations and veiled accusations, but without specifics, in addition to linking what was his party with the neo-Nazi movement, Olona casts suspicion on alleged corrupt practices by Vox, “the party of the alpha male”, through his Fundación Disenso, highlights the “limitations” of Santiago Abascal or Javier Ortega-Smith, with whom he acknowledges his enmity. She has also assured the former deputy that in her old party the decisions are made by agents outside the leadership, although without specifying who she is referring to.
As for Nazism, Évole has insisted in his questions in trying to shed light on EspañaBola, a Telegram account that spreads neo-Nazi messages and praises Hitler that was praised in parliament by the Vox deputy Víctor Sánchez del Real and that published messages threats against Olona after leaving the party. Although the former parliamentarian has insisted time and time again on waiting for the result of the process opened in the courts as a result of her complaint about these threats, Olona has hinted that behind that account is one of the head advisers of Ignacio Garriga, the leader of Vox in Catalonia and current general secretary at the national level.
Against the tension that she herself stirred up
“I have become an obstacle to the current drift of Vox,” said Olona, who has avoided specifying what specific orientation he was referring to. He has also accepted the term “mobster” to describe the inner workings of the party. “When a person leaves the party, a practice is applied of if you are not with me, you are against me,” she summarized. In a kind of redemption from his very recent past in politics, where he was characterized by speeches loaded with insults, disqualifications, personal references and, ultimately, by stirring up tension, Olona is now trying to place himself outside of that environment that contributed to create.
“I have come out of a trench that is the Congress of Deputies,” he said. “National politics has become a tension that practically does not let you breathe. I have come out of a trench and nobody is going to put me in another”, he added. He has also said that he left Vox because he feared that his voice would be “turned off” from within and, without directly discrediting his former boss Santiago Abascal, he has assured the following: “I can only say about Santi that he is a good person but he has limitations.”
“The higher up I was, the more fog I saw around me and it was not clear to me who made the decisions at Vox. It is evident that Santi is not completely free. I have the feeling that the decisions in Vox are not always made in Vox, I am certain that they are made outside of Vox ”, he added. He has not given names. He has only said that they are people who are not part of the organization chart “of the party. He, too, has not wanted to link those decisions with the ultra-Catholic organization El Yunque, which, according to different extreme-right media, is behind the party leadership.
Regarding the alleged corruption within Vox, Olona has focused on the Disenso Foundation, to which the party has allocated nearly 4.5 million public money since it was created, a couple of years ago. During the interview, the former deputy has demanded that “in addition to the annual accounts”, those responsible for the foundation “submit form 347 of the Treasury”. “It is the statement that allows you to find out what other external expenses and services are hidden within the item, that is, the payments you make to other independent professionals for an amount greater than 3,000 euros and that in the private sphere we call the ‘whores’ account and several’. That is where evil is usually hidden ”, she stressed. She has also said that she believes Vox “has gotten into the system” where corruption occurs.
betrayals and contradictions
The “first betrayal” of his colleagues, he said, he saw clearly “after the Andalusians” as a result of “certain leaks from the campaign that came from the Vox headquarters.” “Lies were leaked, that the campaign had been a failure because of my responsibility,” she said, before blaming Abascal himself for that campaign but also Ortega Smith and the MEP and Vox spokesman, Jorge Buxadé. “The result in Andalusia was a true failure of expectations,” she acknowledged. For her, in addition, Ortega Smith “is not the smartest” within Vox. “We are antagonistic,” she has settled.
After insinuating that he shares the reflection that Vox is “a sect in which there is no freedom of expression” or democratic internal functioning, Olona has assured the following: “I am very clear that at a time in which we find ourselves, electoral, I I cannot put the Vox project at risk by paying for a piece of land that could be used to activate the process of making that formation illegal due to the breach of a constitutional mandate”.
During the interview, some of his most incendiary interventions in Congress were reviewed, but Olona now says that he does not share many of the postulates defended by his former Vox colleagues. For example, she has remarked that she does not consider homosexual people “to be sick” and has considered it “disgusting” to put “homosexual and conversion therapies in the same sentence” when she herself was the one who defended these therapies from the lectern in the Chamber a few years ago. just a few months. In addition, she has stated that she has realized that “within Vox” there are those who consider gays and lesbians to be “sick” and “deviant”.
Already in the most personal aspect, Olona has confessed that within what was her party there were those who did not understand that she grew up since adolescence without the figure of her father, of whom she has said that she had addiction problems with cocaine and alcohol . And, without revealing what was the disease that made her leave politics last summer, the former leader of Vox has acknowledged that, at that time, neither Abascal nor Ortega Smith called her to inquire about her health.
