The former deputy and ex-member of Vox Macarena Olona denounced this Thursday that someone from within her former formation saw her illness -for which she decided at the end of July to leave the party and political activity- as an opportunity to "take her out of the game". He has done so in a message on his Twitter account, in which he has shared an interview with the ABC newspaper, in which he assures that Vox is his "family" and calls for party unity against those who want to sow their division " even if they are inside.
"I hope that some answers (in the interview) will answer your questions. I have one: who saw my illness as an opportunity to get me out of the game? In the answer is the origin of the intoxication that we are seeing these days. Unity. Spain, first.
With this tweet, Olona maintains that since last week he made public on the social network that he would ask for a meeting with the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, to see if they could walk together again "through Andalusia and Spain" he is the victim of a " lynching".
In any case, Olona, who has not yet made public whether or not she will return to politics and join Vox after resigning after the Andalusian elections in June in which she opted as a candidate for the Board, has published another message in which she assures that the Vox crisis may be caused from within the formation. "I ask the entire Vox family, which is my family, not to let those who want to sow division win, even if they are inside," she warns. She underlines that Vox's project is Spain and that "Spain will only find itself again from unity" and she encourages them to endure "whatever is necessary", because "it is worth it".
In the interview, he warns that "some are making a lot of mistakes by breaking the unity that characterized Vox against other political formations." "I know where the stab is coming from," she affirms and says she does not understand that "personal egos come before the purpose of the project."
He insists that a party cannot be exclusive to be an alternative, although he recognizes that the most complicated position of a party is that of general secretary, a position that Javier Ortega Smith has in Vox. He assures that he is not arm wrestling and that he does not conceive that the result of the meeting that he has asked Abascal "is not to walk together" as he understands that there are no reasons not to "continue hand in hand".
He points out that if he finally decides to return it would be in such a way that Andalusia does not feel betrayed and assures that his course is "fixed" and that he already has "an absolutely made decision", which does not involve leading a new project with people who left Vox. "I represent Vox," she says, adding that her former colleagues in Congress see her "as a value within Vox that they hope can be incorporated back into what they continue to see as a family."
Last Sunday, Abascal himself said in Barcelona that in his party they are waiting for Olona to decide whether to maintain his decision to leave politics or resume this activity and rejoin the formation and congratulated himself on "the rapid recovery" of Olona. "A little over a month and a half ago - recalled Abascal - Macarena Olona informed us that she could not fulfill her commitments to the Andalusians for health reasons, and that she had decided to leave politics and go to the State Bar" for which celebrated the improvement of his health of Olona.
This has been seen as the far-right leader questioning the illness of his parliamentary spokesman. "Santi is denying my illness?" Olona answers when asked about the question after acknowledging that she leaves him very worried every time that "I have already heard this analysis these days". "I would like him to say it openly," adds Olona, who anticipates that she is going to ask him at the meeting that they should hold soon.
Olona announced on July 29, 2022 her withdrawal from politics and public life "for medical reasons" and reappeared in August as a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago. On Friday, after a university event in Granada, Olona announced that she will request a meeting with Abascal to ask him if they "walk together" in defense of a "better future" for Andalusia and the rest of Spain.
