VOX puts a former neo -Nazi -leader related to Putin at the head of his union | Spain

Vox has decided to put in charge of its union, Solidarityto Jordi de la Fuente, former leader of MSR neo -Nazi party (Republican social movement) and related to Vladimir Putin, for whom the prosecutor asks two years and two months in prison for the Assault on a minors center at Masnou (Barcelona) In July 2019. Although his formal election is not scheduled until the Assembly of the union next Saturday, March 15, De la Fuente has already received the endorsement of the Vox apparatus and has given his support the still general secretary of Solidaridad, the Andalusian parliamentarian Rodrigo Alonso; the Vox spokesman in the Parliament and president of the match in Barcelona, ​​Juan Garriga; and the head of the Ultra delegation in the European Parliament, Jorge Buxadéamong others. Formation sources rule out that an alternative candidate is presented to the official, which is very difficult, since at least he would have to collect the guarantees of 20% of the union affiliates, according to their statutes. In the presentation of his candidacy, the future general secretary of the union promises his followers « go down to mud », « return to the megaphone » and launch with them « to action and conquest. » The country requested this Saturday without success to speak with De la Fuente and with some solidarity spokesman.

The rise of De la Fuente in the Vox organizational conglomerate It occurs in the context of the entrance of the party into the orbit of Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor OrbánMoscow's main ally within the EU. The future general secretary of Solidaridad is an admirer of the Russian ultra -nationalist Alexander DuguinPutin's header ideologist, from whom he has extended the Spanish version of any of his books. After the Annexation of Crimeain 2014, De la Fuente collaborated with Kremlin media, as RT, in which he defended the Russian position in the conflict.

In 2016, in a talk at Russia's house in Barcelona, ​​he justified Moscow's intervention in Ukraine, claiming that the Russians consider her her « rear homeland », and expressed his desire that « the way of understanding things » of Russia to be western to the West through parties that serve as « Troy » horses « of the Kremlin. When in August 2022 there was the murder of Duguin's daughter, De la Fuente wrote on social networks: « Rest in peace, warrior. »

Another conflicting edge of the future Vox union leader is his old affinity with the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and his public comments against Israel. In February 2021, he published a statement on social networks in which he assured: « My militancy (in Vox) is symptomatic of the evolution of my way of thinking. » And he added: “Like everyone in Vox, I reject anti -Semitism and social -communist attacks on Israel. Vox is a game that does not ask where we come from in the past, but where we want to go in the future. ” However, accompany (action and communication on the Middle East), an organization that defends Israel's interests in Spain, demanded from Vox its dismissal claiming that some of its “manifestations of hate to the Jews, where it spread liberated and distilled fierce hatred to the state of Israel”, were recent and that the source had only apologized « Given the evidence of the scandal ».

Assault on Masnou

An especially problematic ballast of the former neo -Nazi leader is the request of the prosecution of two years and two months in prison that weighs on him for him Assault on the center of foreign minors not accompanied by Masnou (Barcelona) in 2019the year he entered Vox. According to the prosecution of the Fuente, de la Fuente participated in a concentration of Skins and neo -Nazis in which slogans like « Moors of shit » were chanted, « we are going to burn the shelter » and « we are going to kill you », and then led – always according to the Prosecutor's Office – the group that went to the Children's Center to assault it.

Both he and the other defendants acted, according to the Prosecutor's Office, within the framework of « a set of setting intolerance in social networks, moved by contempt for migrant minors, generating a climate of anguish, anxiety and panic. » De la Fuente boasted in the social networks of his participation in the assault on the shelter, which resulted in four injured.

The prosecutor imputes a crime of « incitement to hatred, hostility, violence or discrimination for national origin » and asks for two years and two months in jail, with an accessory of disqualification of passive suffrage (presenting himself to a position of popular election), five years of special disqualification for trades related to minors, nine months of fine and prohibition of approaching less than 300 meters of the shelter. After almost three years of dispute over the competent court, the case is now pending trial in a criminal court in Mataró (Barcelona).

From MSR to Pxcat and Vox

All these background, which include having been « national secretary » of the MSR, have not prevented the source from climbing in Vox. Member in 2014 of the candidacy for the European Parliament for the MSR – a party considered Neonazi, of ultra -nationalist, socialist and republican ideology – of the source entered in 2016 in 2016 Per Catalunya Platform (PXCAT)where he reached the position of Secretary of Organization and where he shared militancy with Juan Garriga. He sponsored him to enter Vox in 2019 and became a man of maximum confidence of his cousin and now general secretary of the party, Ignacio Garriga.

After a long season in the shadow, as Deputy Secretary of Organization of the Party in Barcelona and an advisor in the campaign of Ignacio Garriga to the president of the Generalitat in 2021, De la Fuente first presented as a Vox candidate in 2023 and became councilor of Sant Adrià de Besòs (38,000 inhabitants). After those local elections, Vox designated him to occupy his only seat in the Provincial Council. He is currently responsible for the intermunicipal area of ​​the leadership of the party in Barcelona. It is expected that its definitive launch will take place next Saturday in a rally in which Santiago Abascal himself.

Alliance of « Patriots Unions »

For its part, the until now leader of the Ultra Union, Rodrigo Alonso, plans to “flag”, according to his words, the Confederation of European Patriotic Trade Unions. This new international trade unionism was born last October in Budapest (Hungary) in a meeting in which representatives of organizations from Spain, Italy, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, Serbia, Finland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Holland participated.

Solidarity has ensured a seat in the management body of this new Confederation, which is born under the sponsorship of Orbán. The act of Budapest was attended by the Policy Commissioner of the Hungarian Prime Minister Kinga Gálwhich holds so much the vice presidency of the Patriots party, which chairs Abascal, as of its group in the European Parliament, which the French directs Jordan Bardellanational regrouping, Marine Le Pen's party.