The former deputy of Vox Macarena Olona, who left active politics in the summer and later returned to her position as a State lawyer, has revealed today, through a tweet, her salary with a screenshot of the bank's mobile application. It is an amount of €7,850.94 paid by the Ministry of Justice. In this way, Olona responds to her criticism of her interest in continuing in politics, especially as a result of changing her position on sexist violence or discrimination against homosexuals.
The list displayed by Olona on Twitter is reminiscent of what ex-soccer player Gerard Piqué did, when he was still at Futbol Club Barcelona, to deny journalistic information about his salary. The €7,850.94 per month that the former Vox leader receives represents an annual salary of around €100,000, well above the €60,000 average salary of State lawyers.
Faced with the criticism that Olona has been receiving that she wanted to continue in the world of politics, she has responded that "I choose to continue serving the Spanish, since my independence." "We are not all the same", he stressed, alluding to a sometimes general feeling that all politicians act in the same way. Shortly after, the former deputy has argued that her tweet is a matter of transparency.
Olona returned to the State Attorney's Office at the beginning of 2023, where she had worked before entering politics. This decision came after her departure from the front line, justified by a disease that she suffered from. The Alicante march coincided with the poor results of her party in the Andalusian elections, in which she led the candidacy of the far-right party despite not living there. The tensions between Olona and the rest of the Vox leaders began in private and surfaced in public, and the crossed darts have been frequent in recent months. She herself denounced that someone in the formation saw her illness as an opportunity to "take her out of the game."
In November, she presented a personal project outside of Vox, which is a lobby that aims to deal with "gender ideology".
In several public appearances, she has not ruled out her return to politics, but at the moment she occupies a position as an official in the Lawyer's Office. Since her departure from Vox, she has taken a radical turn in her speech; In some cases, she has positioned herself very far from what she defended while she was part of the party headed by Santiago Abascal. On different occasions, she has denounced sexist violence and discrimination against women and homosexuals. She also claimed the visibility of trans people. She even condemned the attempted coup in Brazil.
All these pronouncements have generated confusion among his extreme right-wing followers, and in many cases have provoked animosity. The criticism of these for a possible change of discourse to continue in politics has led Olona to show his payroll. In his opinion, a way of highlighting his economic “independence”.
