The leadership of Vox in the Region of Murcia resigned this Thursday en bloc, leaving only the until now regional president of the party, José Ángel Antelo, to force his departure. Sources from the ultra formation have confirmed to EL PAÍS this march in full of the Provincial Executive Committee (CEP) “due to a profound disagreement with the management” of the until now president, and it will be a manager appointed by the national leadership who will now take the reins of the formation.
Specifically, the national deputy Lourdes Méndez, who held the vice presidency of Vox Murcia, has left her positions; Carmen Menduiña, who was his secretary; Antonio Martínez Nieto in charge of Institutional Relations; Antonio Martínez Sánchez, Intermunicipal responsible, and Aida Peñalver, head of Territorial Organization.
The resignation of all of them, the same sources point out, has the “express objective of allowing the national leadership of the party to take the reins and resolve a serious crisis of internal cohesion that has worsened significantly in recent times.”
Since this Thursday morning, the idea that Antelo, who has led Vox Murcia since 2020, would be replaced by another member of the formation has already been considered. The provincial president himself was appointed by the national leadership of Vox to preside over the management company that replaced the previous team, led by Pascual Salvador. He continues to be a deputy in the Murcia Regional Assembly and has already gone through another major crisis for the party: he was the only one of the four deputies that Vox had in the Autonomous Chamber in 2020 who was not expelled from the party due to disagreements with the national leadership over the accounts of the parliamentary group, a matter that ended up in court.
With the resignation en bloc of the CEP, the national leadership will now call for a manager to reorganize the regional formation.
