Macarena Olona, ??or Macarena de Salobreña, as she has been calling herself for weeks to boast of success against those who tried to invalidate her registration in the town of Granada, is the ace that Vox has pulled out of her sleeve to achieve good results in the next Andalusian elections. The ultranationalists have managed to give a blow to the game board that has bothered left and right.
Born in Alicante and “Andalusian by adoption”, she has managed, despite not having lived regularly in the region, to overcome the limit of the Electoral Board’s rule to aspire to take command of the Palacio de San Telmo.
At the end of April, already as a candidate, she greeted all Andalusians with a tweet promising them “real change”. Since then, the iron lady of the Abascal party has not stopped using the tagline “with joy” in her posts on social networks when she shares her stops in different cities of Andalusia, as if she wanted to return the colors green and white to this land of her flag taking advantage of the wear and tear of a PSOE that governed for a long time and left a part of the population exhausted, and of a PP that has not wanted or has not been able to apply the strong hand that she considers necessary.
Several things must be recognized for the Salobreña woman: her ability to adapt the discourse to the needs of citizens depending on where she is; her rabid audacity, which has even led her to affirm that Julio Anguita himself (charismatic Cordovan leader of IU, now deceased) would be proud of the fighting spirit of her formation; and having entered Andalusia through the front door becoming one more coplilla of the Cadiz Carnival, although the voices of Vera Luque’s comparsa questioned whether she knows anything about “the Andalusian feeling”.
The polls predict a good result for her and place her in third place, which is why she has even asked Moreno Bonilla (PP) if he would be willing to act as his vice president. Left and right are worried about his irruption on the game board and the tidal wave that it could cause after 19-J.
Olona has turned out to be Vox’s safe bet to implement its acronym in the most populated region of Spain. Signed in 2019 by Santiago Abascal, leader of the formation, for his knowledge of legal matters and his easy verb, he went from a discreet position in his first stage in the party to being part of the hard core of it thanks to his defense of the traditional values ??of bull skin. That same year, she presented herself for Granada to the general elections, taking over the speaker who gave her the seat in the Congress of Deputies. Her controversial interventions did the rest.
His fame crossed borders. In the South of immigration, of the farmer besieged by drought, of the unemployed youth and of the disenchanted left and right, Macarena managed to move the masses. Thus, Abascal opted for the winning horse.
Originally from Alicante, the State lawyer stationed in the Basque Country for five years (2012-2017) was already standing out for her oratory and her dialectical ease. In the north, it became a resource-generating machine to prevent, among other things, the celebration of tribute acts to ETA members; she came to confront Mariano Rajoy on account of the Basque law on police abuse until he managed to paralyze her; she made the flag of Spain wave in some other town hall and got four civil guards free from the charge of torture (a body that awarded her the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard in 2017). It was at this stage that he participated in the Board of Trustees of the Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism, the same place where Abascal, then a member of the PP, began to outline the idea of ??Vox in 2013 with the support of Ortega Lara, whose kidnapping shocked the entire country
She won all the cases in which she was involved but, in a move by the Rajoy Government to prevent her from interceding in her negotiations with the Basque Government, or at least that was how it was interpreted, she was transferred in 2017 to the general secretariat of Mercasa, in Madrid. It did not take long for him to denounce the “chiringuito” set up by some managers of the public company, fingered by PSOE and PP, through which they carried out substantial contracts abroad and for which they came to collect illegal commissions of 20 million euros. . Before Olona, ??a new front was opened: testifying at the National High Court, something that tried to be avoided with her dismissal but that did not prevent her from testifying against those responsible in 2018. She continued to carve out, with it, her reputation as an ‘all-terrain’.
Macarena de Salobreña could also be known as ‘the woman without fear’, although the networks bet on putting the label of
At great speed he was gaining the trust of his bosses until he sat in Congress, a platform that gave him the opportunity to reach public opinion with his controversial interventions, making devastating criticisms of his opponents and grating the insult towards some of his colleagues. the low camera. The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, and the Minister for Labour, Yolanda Díaz, have repeatedly been the target of his darts.
It was from this seat, but not before saying goodbye as she only knows of the rest of the politicians, when she announced that she was giving up her seat every time she proclaimed herself Andalusian from all sides in a speech that could rather resemble a rally. She closed a stage to start another, that of challenging the traditional parties that, until now, have been sharing the share of power in Andalusia.
Olona from ‘Graná’ wants to be Andalusian president without communion with the State of the autonomies, and it is from here that she wants to turn the Andalusian Statute of Autonomy into a dead letter and launch her revolution.
