Santiago Abascal is rearmed with a granite team in the background and in the form to lead Vox for the next four years. The president of the ultra party has announced on Saturday, through social networks, the candidacy with which he is eligible for a re-election that is taken for granted at the assembly on March 7 in Vistalegre (Madrid).
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The main novelty is the rise of MEP Jorge Buxadé to the political vice presidency, which makes him de facto in number three of the organization. Buxadé was already the head of the Vox campaign in the 10-N elections and also joined the political action committee, the Sanhedrin who runs the day-to-day game.
Although this body is not yet listed in the Vox statutes, Abascal presents a candidacy for the same integrated, in addition to him, by Javier Ortega Smith, who remains as secretary general; Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, spokesman for the group in Congress; and a person in charge of the communication team that does not specify.
Another novelty is the creation of a “vice presidency of the social area”, which reveals the interest of the party to approach popular sectors that have so far turned their backs on measures such as the payment of 100 euros per child. The head of this new area will be Reyes Romero, the Sevillian deputy who premiered in the control session to the Government asking the head of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, for "the increase in crime driven by groups of foreign origin", a Question that the minister labeled Xenophobe.
Abascal has pulled the parliamentary group to recruit full-time professional politicians, unlike the previous address, in which many could only dedicate their free time to the party. Deputies such as Rocío de Meer (Almería), Ignacio Garriga (Barcelona), Juan Luis Steegman (Madrid), María Ruiz (Madrid) or Pedro Fernández (Zaragoza) join as members of the national executive committee (CEN), which also include Víctor González Coello of Portugal, economic vice president; Enrique Cabanas, director of the Abascal cabinet; and Pedro Sáez, treasurer.
But as important or more than the members of the CEN are the vice-secretaries, who go from four to 12. Among them, the general secretary of the parliamentary group in Congress, Macarena Olona, one of the Vox figures with the greatest public projection; its communication manager, Manuel Mariscal; or Espinosa de los Monteros himself, who is still in charge of international relations. Also included in the list, as Deputy Legal Secretary, Marta Castro, although she is part of the electoral committee, the body that must ensure the cleanliness of the internal electoral process of Vox, in which the militants must pronounce on the continuity of Abascal ( Canarian militant Carmelo González is running as an alternative candidate) by telematic or postal vote.
Among those who leave the dome, MEP Mazaly Aguilar or Rafael Bardají, former international advisor to José María Aznar, who happens to be one of the ideologues in the shadow of the party.