Vox has had to resort to foreign financing twice in order to deal with its operation in the face of liquidity problems derived from the fall in quotas and the public subsidy it receives, which is proportional to the number of seats it obtains. According to their 2024 accounts, which have to be approved this Sunday in their general assembly, last year requested a loan of 7 million euros to a Hungarian bank, MBH Bank, which has as its greatest shareholder Corvinus International Investment, a 100% controlled investment firm by the Magiar state chaired by Viktor Orbán. It is the same entity to which he had already resorted to 2023 to finance, when he asked for another 6.7 million to deal with the general elections convened on July 23, 2023 surprisingly by Pedro Sánchez.
Despite the problems in their coffers to face expenses for the general elections, but also for the regional elections of Galicia, Euskadi and Catalunya and those of the European Parliament – all them held in 2024 -, Vox did not close the tap for its foundation, dissent. The start -ups of the party (which in 2023 had lost two million euros compared to the previous year) were not reflected in dissent, which received a total of 2.5 million in 2023, money that comes in its origin from both the state, as well as from the positions of Vox, as well as companies, supporters and militants who pay quotas. The following year, in 2024, the Foundation received some less money from Vox, according to its accounts: two million. Since January of this 2025 he has advanced a million euros, an amount that could increase in the coming months, if he remains ladinamia in recent years, and whose final figure will be known at the end of the year.
Un ‘think’ tank ultra
Disensus is a foundation created in 2020 by Abascal and with leadership in the shadow of its Kiko Méndez Monastery Guru. Among its purposes, considered of general interest, are officially the “promotion of the defense of life and family”, “the claim of the inheritance of Western civilization” or “the defense of freedom, unity and sovereignty of Spain.” For practical purposes, the money that enters from Vox is used to publish articles in La Gaceta and promote the ideas of ultra -right in Spain but also outside. In fact, dissent is the instrument that has served Abascal to organize events, talks and share projects with ultra -right leaders such as Milei or Bolsonaro, through the so -called Madrid Forum.
The controversy and the doubts between critics and some militants about the opportunity of these millionaire transfers after the publication at eldiario.es of the global of the sums that were being transferred to the Secretary General, Ignacio Garriga, to have to defend by letter to all its militants the importance of continuing to finance the foundation: “Vox is dissent and dissent is vox.” “How the foundation and the party were not going to be the same!” However, the ends are different, as well as the legal form. A foundation linked to a party is a private non -profit institution and has tax advantages. In addition, Abascal is president of nominative dissent.
Critics with these transfer practices, as in their day Macarena Olona, who was the one who focused on dissent, even warned of opaque movements. For example, much of that money transferred from the party to the Foundation goes to dissent salaries and to pay suppliers, companies that provide them with service and of which there is no public information. Although it hangs all accounts on its website as it is mandatory for the foundations, those of 2024 have not yet made public.
According to the latest available accounts, of 2023, Disenso spent almost everything on two items: personnel expenses (1.2 million in 2023 compared to the million he had spent in 2022) and “other expenses” (1.4 million compared to 1.3 of 2022). Of the latter, the “independent professionals” services are carried the bulk. According to its own accounts, Disensus has 26 employees and only one is senior management: its director, Jorge Martín Frías (since June also Eurodiputa), which in 2022 charged 85,000 euros and that in 2023 he saw his salary raise to 91,000. The average in personnel expenses of the think tank It is 46,000 euros per worker (the average salary in Spain that year was 26,500 euros)
While every year he sends money to that foundation, Vox has come to the Hungarian financial entity and had to disburse interest – in 2023, the interests of the credit they requested exceeded one million euros. The PSOE denounced this financing before the Prosecutor's Office, together with other irregularities in anonymous donations that were filed because the Court of Accounts had already imposed a fine of almost one million for those facts. The complaint was also based on the fact that the law prohibits any financing “by governments and foreign public entities, entities or companies or directly or indirectly related to them.” MBH Bank is “a financial giant formed from the fusion of three entities” and that in part “is owned by Lőrinc Mészáros, the richest businessman in Hungary and friend of Orbán's childhood”, as revealed at the time VSQUARE research medium
The accounts that will undergo approval on Sunday have required another mass letter to the militancy sent on Thursday, in which the secretary general of Vox justifies the foreign loan and explains that the national entities do not want to finance them, although in their own accounts there are loans with Spanish banks: two to Santander and another to the BBVA worth 955,000 euros and 1.8 million, respectively. The three have been returned in the course of 2024. It has also explained the liquidity problems of the party in a delay in the payment of the political subsidy that corresponds to them and that quantifies in more than three million euros.
Although the 2023 credit with the MBH Bank Hungarian returned it in 2024 through 8 money remittances and on the same day, the 2024 remains in a pending part: they need to pay 1,455,629 euros, according to the accounts that it has sent to its militants, which will decide in the General Assembly of the party if they approve them, something that will predictably happen. Abascal control in the party is almost total after critics and even the statutes were changed to strengthen it: fines were proposed to members who spoke evil of Vox, in addition to formalizing telematic votes and imposing that secret is kept on what happens in that assembly, also to the militants, under penalty of expulsion of the party.