Vox opens a file against Iván Espinosa de los Monteros to expel him from the party | Spain

Vox has opened a file to expel its former general secretary Iván Espinosa de los Monteros from the party, as he himself announced this Thursday. In a publication on the social network

The former leader of the far-right formation thus joins other heavyweights who have been removed from the formation. On March 6, the ultra party announced the expulsion of Javier Ortega Smith, one of the founders, and the opening of disciplinary proceedings against the until now leader of the party in Murcia, José Ángel Antelo. He was also suspended from his rights as a member and disqualified from holding or performing any position or function in the ultra party, thus canceling his status as a member of the National Executive Committee. And just a week ago, he opened a file against the former vice president of Castilla y León Juan García-Gallardo for pointing out the payments made by the president’s wife, Santiago Abascal.

About fifteen prominent former Vox leaders, led by Espinosa de los Monteros himself, and among whom were a dozen former deputies, some public officials still active such as Ortega Smith, or the vice mayor of Toledo, Inés Cañizares, one of the most relevant institutional officials of the formation, and founders of the party, such as Ignacio Ansaldo, holder of membership card number 1, launched a manifesto on March 18 in which They demand the holding of an extraordinary congress to Abascal.

The manifesto denounced “the existence of a parallel network of opaque entities, unknown to the majority of members, not subject to sufficient scrutiny and linked to economic interests and exchanges that demand transparency,” in reference to the companies linked to Abascal’s two main advisors, Kiko Méndez-Monasterio and Gabriel Ariza, son of Vox’s media godfather Julio Ariza. “Whoever asks for exemplary status for Spain must begin by guaranteeing it within their own project.”