Sánchez del Real, another 'purged': "In the founding principles of Vox there were many sensibilities, now there is only one"

“One of the saddest days I remember”. This is how Víctor Sánchez del Real, one of the founders of Vox and one of the most active Vox deputies in Congress in the last legislature, responds to the news of the departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros from the leadership of Santiago Abascal's party. Sánchez del Real admits that the departure of one of his main references in the game is one more blow to the drift that the formation has been suffering in recent times, although he is not “surprised” either.. It is true, he recalls, that the family situation that Espinosa de los Monteros has gone through is a factor to take into account, but he does not hesitate to ensure that “to this day, those who defended certain ideas have left voluntarily and others are out without knowing why». Among the latter he refers to himself.

It is not only that he belonged to the small group of people who came together to form Vox -he put money out of his pocket-, it is that he also directed the electoral campaign in Andalusia, that of 2018, where this formation achieved a result as surprising as it was extraordinary, in addition from being in charge of creating and molding this party in Extremadura from scratch, until getting five deputies in the last regional elections, being the decisive key for the new government. But suddenly, a few days later, specifically on June 16, they invited him to pick up his things from his office.. To this day, he has not received a single explanation for this dismissal, which also included other people close to Espinosa de los Monteros, who formed the working group of the economic area in recent years.. Those branded as liberals, at least those who came from the private sector. «You always supported me, you understood, you guided. And it has always been an honor to break the gap by your side,” Sánchez del Real, a communicator by profession, wrote on his Twitter account.. “The best parliamentarian that Spain has had in this century has been lost and surely one of the best in the history of Spanish parliamentarianism,” explains the former deputy to EL MUNDO.

Sánchez del Real explains that “now there are only people left within Vox who only represent certain ideas when in the founding manifesto of Vox all the sensibilities that represented a balance of ideas were represented, which no longer exists, now they are no longer found” and He does not know if Abascal's formation “will regain that balance and if the necessary vehicles exist to recover those equitable ideas that previously existed in Vox and that have disappeared with the exit that is taking place, some voluntary and others not,” he acknowledges. .

Asked what types of ideas now exist in Vox, exclusively, Sánchez del Real avoids a direct and forceful answer, but encourages us to review those who have left the group for one reason or another and who defended “certain ideas that now They are not seen, now there is only one». and stays there. “Now they say that there were no different sensitivities in Vox, of course there were, as in all parties,” he recalls, and for this he again cites the founding principles of Vox, a stage in which he was not only a direct witness, but a protagonist .

On social networks, the former deputy added messages in an internal code in his tribute to Espinosa de los Monteros: “With the complicity of those who do not even have to speak to move forward together. Faced with so many who did not believe and left or came giving lessons when “we were already on TV”. That's why, with you, always. Anywhere. One way or the other. At any cost again” to remember that he entered Vox on the eve of its founding “because of you.”