The Secretary General of Vox and leader of the party in Catalonia, Ignacio Garriga, has assured in an act in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) that the formation is suffering “an unprecedented persecution by those who want it to disappear”. It refers to the controversy and doubts between critics and some militants about the millionaire transfer after the publication at eldiario.es of the global of the sums that were transferring from their accounts to dissent, the lobby that Santiago Abascal chairs to finance publications, talks and meetings with other leaders of the extreme right. This same week more ex -directors have accused the dome of demanding them to divert money to the Foundation.
“The attacks will continue and even those who want Vox to disappear will use our partners, as we have suffered, to lie, to manipulate and to poison,” Garriga said. According to the leader of the ultra -right formation in Catalonia, “many believed themselves, even some believe, that they were going to control this party, that they were going to decide who had to be the president, who were going to say where we were going to govern, that they were going to decide with which half we were going to govern.”
“They have been wrong,” he said because, he has continued, Vox is not “like the rest of the games.” “We have not come to the dirty struggle to conquer power for power, so they did not understand that we would leave the autonomous government because we move the convictions, the armchairs do not move,” he said.
Garriga also explained that many do not understand “the honesty of our convictions.” “That is why some have heard some: you should moderate the tone, sometimes you are very radical, that this people will not understand. But what is the use of gaining votes if we betray our principles and our voters? Vox does not use Spaniards as electoral merchandise. We come to defend principles, to reconquer everything and to improve absolutely everything,” he said.
Just two days ago, Three releases from the extreme right party They accused the dome of demanding them to divert “huge amounts” of public money to the dissent private foundation. It was the Balearic Vox export and two other deputies who publicly denounced the pressures they claim to have been subjected.
As published by eldiario.es, Vox has not closed the tap to dissent despite the liquidity problems derived from the fall of quotas and the public subsidy it receives, which is proportional to the number of seats it obtains. In 2023, it received a total of 2.5 million, money that comes in its origin from both the State, and the training positions, as well as companies, supporters and militants who pay fees.
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 the dynamics of recent years follow, and whose final figure will be known at the end of the year. At the end of 2024, the PSOE denounced Vox for illegal financing for a loan from a Hungarian bank and the sale of merchandising. Anticorruption decided to open an investigation to the party, which finally decided to file last June because the Court of Accounts has already sanctioned the party for irregular donations with 862,000 euros in April.
Disensus is a foundation created in 2020 by Abascal and with leadership in the shadow of its Kiko Méndez Monastery Guru. 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, it is the instrument that has served the party leader to organize events, talks and share projects with ultra -right leaders such as Milei or Bolsonaro, through the so -called Madrid Forum.
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.