Vox financed the campaigns of last year’s general and municipal elections with separate loans for a total amount of 9.2 million granted by the Hungarian bank Magyar Bankholding (MBH), the second in the country.
Sources from Santiago Abascal’s party confirmed this Monday that they turned to MBH, a bank that the newspaper The Confidential relates to information with the Hungarian prime minister, the far-right Viktor Orbanwhose government is the largest shareholder of the banking entity. From those around Abascal, they justify these credit operations in the refusal of Spanish banking entities to finance them, unlike the PSOE and the PP and despite being the third party in the country.
Vox’s management report for the 2023 financial year revealed that owed the banks 9,229,444 euroscorresponding to credits requested to face the general and municipal elections. For the general ones, it requested a credit of 6.5 million, while the amount of the credit for the municipal ones amounted to 2.6 million.
Some “absolutely legal” loans, which have already been returned by Vox and which were duly communicated to the Court of Accounts, have assured the sources, who have stressed that, if it becomes necessary again, they will appeal again. to foreign banks for financing. “We have done it and we will do it again if necessary,” stated the sources, who have thus downplayed the importance of the loans granted by the Hungarian bank.
After Vox sources confirmed the loan, the spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Millán, has also alluded to the impossibility of obtaining this financing in Spain and to the delay, “deliberate or not”, of the general administration when paying for electoral expenses as reasons to go to the Hungarian entity. “I don’t know if that bank is close to Orban or not, I know it is a Hungarian bank,” Millán also pointed out, when asked by journalists in the halls of Congress.
On the other hand, at Vox there is no concern about the MEP’s insinuations from Se Acabó La Fiesta Alvise Pérez that Santiago Abascal also collected money from the company Madeira Invest. According to the State Attorney General’s Office, this investment platform paid 100,000 euros to Alvise to promote it at public events, a payment that the MEP has admitted he did not communicate to the Treasury.
In statements to journalists in Congress after meeting with the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, the leader of Vox confirmed this Monday that he has filed the announced complaint against Alvise. Abascal has expressed, however, his respect for the 800,000 people who voted for him in the European elections and that “fed up with corruption” they thought that “they did not have to trust other political forces.” Vox sources believe, however, that the tax fraud “will take its toll” on Alvise, since it not only harms him personally but also those who have voted for him as “last hope.”
News prepared by EFE
