Vox tries to turn the page at full speed on the departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros and close the internal crisis that has caused the resignation of Juan Luis Steegmann as a consequence. Since then, several names have been heard in the pools to replace Espinosa de los Monteros at the head of the party in Congress, such as the young figures of José María Figaredo or Ignacio Hoces, as this newspaper has reported.. Also María Ruiz, number two in the lists for Madrid after Abascal. “We are clear about it,” Garriga asserted without revealing the identity of the leader.

“They are trying to bury us,” Garriga denounced in an interview with RNE in which he harshly charged the press, which he accused of building “science-fiction stories” to try to “demonize, stigmatize and corner” Vox.

Thus, the party's general secretary avoided self-criticism, denied that there was a fire within the formation and lashed out at the media to justify that the news published in the last few hours about the departure of Espinosa de los Monteros and Steegmann They are “conspiracy attempts” and “gross lies” that do not respond to internal reality: “Vox is stronger than ever,” he promised.

The truth is that the storm unleashed in the heart of the party is already exceeding the walls of the headquarters on Bambú street and threatens to destabilize Santiago Abascal's formation like never before.. The fall of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros shows the struggle between families in Vox and the escalation of the hard wing of the party, personified in the political vice president, Jorge Buxadé, and in Garriga himself.

It is not the first time that the secretary general directly points to the press as guilty of the evils of Vox. In his landing in Madrid almost a year ago after the crisis derived from the break with Macarena Olona, which led to the fall of Javier Ortega Smith and the arrival of Garriga in control of the formation, he accused the media of being responsible for speculating with “palace intrigues” that only sought to harm Vox.