Macarena Olona is back. Exactly one month after announcing that she was leaving politics for health reasons on July 29, the former deputy, she has resumed her public activity, traveling the last hundred kilometers to Santiago de Compostela.
"I want to serve the Spaniards and I will be there where I can be useful to them (...) I am like the horses before the race, full of adrenaline and wanting the barrier to rise" he said in Saria, Lugo, where he began his career .
Olona announced his retirement from politics due to health problems that he did not specify at the time and that he has now revealed: a serious thyroid disease whose "worst" diagnosis "has been completely ruled out."
Olona, deputy for Vox in Madrid, was sent to fight in the Andalusian regional elections in the conviction that Vox was going to rise like wildfire and that it was going to be decisive in the formation of the new conservative government in the region. However, a very bad campaign and a successful strategy of the PP -Moreno knew how to combine moderation that did not scare the traditional socialist voter and with a dose of Andalusianism- turned the thriving head of the Vox list into a loser condemned to an insignificant role in Andalusian Parliament.
On election night, Olona – who was registered a few months before the campaign at the house of a party member in order to head the list – assured that despite that result the entire legislature was going to stay in Andalusia. However, just a month later she announced that she was ill and that she was retiring from all political activity.
Today in Sarria a 100-kilometer walk has begun to reach Santiago de Compostela. It is not difficult for him to cover that distance, but it will probably cost him much more for his party mates to accept his resurrection as if nothing had happened.
Those who know the insides of the ultra-nationalist party know that, beyond the illness, the row between Olona and Santiago Abascal after the Andalusian elections was tremendous. And probably, that discomfort has no turning back.
Just in case there is any doubt about it, the general secretary of Vox, Javier Ortega Smith, assured this Monday that those who make "speculations" about the public reappearance of the former leader "waste time".
