The former Andalusian candidate does “an autopsy of her political corpse” in a book that concludes that Abascal is a “slave” of “the interests of people infinitely more powerful than him”
The former spokesperson for Vox in the Congress of Deputies, Macarena Olonagoes with everything in his brand new book. “I’m Macarena. “My life, my ideas, my path,” published by La Esfera de los Libros, is a review of his political career and He leaves no puppet head in what was his party for two terms. “In this life you have to go with the truth first,” she writes as a new vital maxim.
In this book, Olona reviews all the insides of Vox and even goes back to the origin, to how “Santiago Abascal and Javier Ortega Smith had stabbed Vidal-Quadras in the back to steal the match”. The former spokesperson in Congress assures that Abascal went to ask for help from the founder of Vox and former president of the PP in Catalonia when he left the popular ranks, which occurred in November 2013, and “he gave him a salary of 6,000 euros per month and made him general secretary of that first Vox.” This is how he narrates that Vidal-Quadras’s then secretary, Lydia Bedman, now Abascal’s wife, “leaked sensitive information that helped Ortega and Santi to gradually weave their betrayal.” He maintains that what they did was “boycott” his European campaign and they created, province by province, “the breeding ground” to kick him out when the Catalan politician was left out of the European Parliament, where he was a deputy from 1999 to 2014.
“A slave to power”
“This is how political professionals act, those who have been suckling from the udders of the parties since they were kids,” Olona concludes. Abascal was appointed president of Vox in September 2014. Months later (February 2015), Vidal-Quadras requested his removal as a militant. Abascal had already publicly asked him to leave the party after the former Catalan leader opted to bring Vox closer to Cs and UpyD.
Olona assures that he lived for years “emotionally kidnapped” by “Santi”whom he claims to have professed unwavering loyalty and whom he ends up firing by stripping him of his diminutive and ending up calling him “Santiago Abascal, politician by birth, activist of New Generations of the PP, puppy of Esperanza Aguirre, secretary of Vox, Bruto de Vidal-Quadras, orchestra director of the souls of Vox, toy in the hands of the darkness that begins in (Julio) Ariza and that ends I don’t know if in El Yunque, in Miami or in Iran”, he relates in the book. “Santiago is a slave to power,” she concludes, and “to the interests of people infinitely more powerful than him.”
“The ultra wing”
Originally, the book was going to be a long interview led by Kiko Méndez-Monasterio, and thus it began to be written during the Andalusian campaign in which Olona was a parachute candidate for Granada. The narration of that campaign and its subsequent days, after Olona’s departure, give a good account of the internal differences in the party and how difficult that path was, which ended up undermining her health. She narrates how she is accountable to herself. Méndez-Monasterio and Gabriel Arizason of Julio Ariza, president of the Intereconomía group, both linked in Tizona Communication, the communication agency that Olona points out as “brain” of Vox in the last two years. The “chiringuitazo”, as she writes.
If after her various interviews and public interventions there was something left to uncover, it appears in the book, although Olona is a skilled lawyer for the State and knows perfectly well how much she can tell and how much she can uncover without losing a lawsuit. She assures that she has spoken to many people, has pulled many threads and has many deep throats with which she has contrasted many impressions that were recorded during her “loyalty” stage. to the match.
She is convinced that this demand will not come because then she could request papers to which she has not had access. As the famous tax model 347 of the Disenso Foundationattached to Vox, or the private company Tizona, where you can analyze the “other expenses” section, which she calls “the account of whores and various”. “Are the 7 million (intended from Vox) to Dissensus a science fiction story? Are they 2.7 in the “other expenses” section from Tizona? Whenever the Intereconomía Clan gang wants, we’ll see each other in court. They dress silence as indifference, but in reality it is fear,” says Olona.
Your friend Ivan
The former Vox spokesperson speaks especially well of one of her former colleagues, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, with whom he formed a duo in Congress and who is now also out of office. To both, Abascal he stopped picking up the phone given the rise of what Olona defines as “the ultra wing.” The current deputy Ignacio de Hoces, today national deputy secretary of Institutional Affairs and then parliamentary advisor, is called “the Trojan horse” which they use to gain control of the congressional group. Olona places in the hard core to Abascal, Kiko Méndez-Monasterio, Gabriel Ariza, Enrique Cabanas and Hoces himself.
Jorge Buxadé and Ignacio Garriga also win in this promotion, whom their former partner considers “straw men.” For her, Abascal is “the conductor of the orchestra,” protected by Cabanas and the deputy for Guadalajara. Angel Lopez Maraver, chief of staff and shadow of Abascal. “However, the pinnacle of power that I have had contact with is Julio Ariza”Olona relates in her book, from then on, she says, “the fog is getting thicker and thicker.” and “you can’t see anything behind him.” “I don’t know what’s behind his figure,” and she appears convinced that he is the one who “she dictates.” in Abascal’s ear.
Her black month as an Andalusian deputy
From her Andalusian stage, the book recounts all the interior details of her campaign and the dark days of being an Andalusian deputy, barely a month, when she clearly saw that she had been cornered and betrayed in all the promises she had received from Bambú, where the Vox headquarters in Madrid.
He assures that after the election night, where Vox It went from 12 to 14 deputies but ended up becoming an irrelevant force due to the absolute majority of the PP, one of the so-called “most affectionate” members; that he received was that of the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno. He also recounts a lunch in Madrid with Elias Bendodo, today general coordinator of the PP, and Kiko Méndez-Monasterio to negotiate the renewal of Radio Televisión Andaluza (RTVA) after the last elections. According to Olona, Bendodo reproached the Vox advisor for saying that the party had “demanded a game for the framework.” from Julio Ariza, president of the Intereconomía Group, as payment to approve the Andalusian Budget for 2019. From then on, she says, she was separated from any dialogue. There were days left for Olona to leave the Andalusian Parliament, she would leave the party and start a new life.