The weeks prior to the enthronement of Santiago Abascal as president of Vox are generating important movements in the party that governs the Generalitat Valenciana with the PP and important town councils such as València, Elx or Castelló. Internal recognitions and rudeness that denote the fight for supremacy in a party that is not going through its best moment despite having achieved its greatest share of institutional power.
This week, the president of Vox in the province of Valencia, the historic Ignacio Gil Lázaro, announced the constitution of a Vox coordinating Commission in the city of Valencia and placed the second deputy mayor and spokesperson of the municipal group at its head. by Vox, Juanma Badenas.
A maneuver that has been interpreted within the party as a way to “reinforce” the figure of the municipal leader and “to recognize the line of the Vox project” in the capital. Beyond the intention to “rearm” the organization in the city and strengthen its presence in the neighborhoods, those around Badenas highlight the good connection between the municipal spokesperson and the provincial president who, they say, is “totally trustworthy.” in the work carried out by the councilor “despite the poisoned dice of the opposition and other sectors.”
The ways of Badenas, who has not hesitated to publicly show his differences with the mayor of the PP, María José Catalá (with whom he does not have a good relationship), have generated doubts in some sectors of the party. However, with this appointment, Gil Lázaro sends a clear message of support.
A notice that has also been interpreted within the party as an attempt by the provincial leader to shield himself from a hypothetical growth of his predecessor in office, José María Llanos, who since January 1 has served as spokesperson for the party in Les Corts Valencianes, replacing Ana Vega.
Llanos and Gil Lázaro do not have a special feeling and, as this newspaper explained, the new provincial leader dispensed with him in his new executive. “Gil Lázaro is an experienced politician and he has invented this commission that did not exist to keep everyone happy and make it clear who his trusted people are in the province,” explains an authorized voice of the party.
The constitution of the commission has not been the only internal movement this week. Last Tuesday the names of the future woman who will accompany Santiago Abascal after the assembly scheduled for January 27 were known. An address in which territorial quotas are taken into account with the inclusion of the vice presidents that Vox has in different regional governments. In the current organization chart there is no Valencian, but there will be in the future.
The name of Vicente Barrera, number two in the Valencian Government, is also added to that of the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó. The latter is interpreted as a commitment to the most ultra-Catholic currents of the party, in the same line of argument that led to the change in the Receivership of the parliamentary group.
These two names – Barrera (from València) and Massó (from Castelló) – also have a territorial reading that Alicante does not like. And the fact is that the province – which is the one that achieved the best results of the three constituencies in the last general elections – will not have any representation in the new executive of Santiago Abascal. And it rains in the wet, since it does not have representation in the regional government, in the Les Corts Board and, in addition, its provincial president, Ana Vega, has been relieved of the spokesperson for the parliamentary group.
