Vox's economic exportavoz warns that an electoral repetition would be "deadly" for the party

Rubén Manso criticizes the "interventionist Catholic national" drift in the party, says that Espinosa de los Monteros had been "relegated"

MADRID, 9 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former deputy of Vox Rubén Manso believes that those of Santiago Abascal would achieve "very bad" results in the event of a repetition of the general elections as a consequence of the crisis generated with the departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros from his leadership, leaving him in a situation even "mortal" from which it would be difficult to recover.

Manso, deputy in the previous legislature and removed from the lists for the 23J elections, has acknowledged in an interview on Cadena Cope, collected by Europa Press, that the departure of Espinosa de los Monteros has not been a "surprise"; since the one who was a spokesman for Vox in Congress had been "relegated" during the last year. "When one is a spokesperson, if they are being relegated, emptied or prostrated, the normal thing is that sooner or later they say this is how far we have come", he has recognized.

He has also echoed a "rumor" about his possible departure as parliamentary spokesman to be replaced by the elected deputy Ignacio de Hoces, something that he believes was "a mistake" because Espinosa de los Monteros was "the best spokesman" during the past legislature.

In any case, his march does believe that it has opened a crisis in Vox that could be "savable" but that, in the event of an electoral repetition, would result in "very bad" results for the party. "It would be a very catastrophic scenario for Vox because we know that voters punish crises," he explained, adding that "a very bad result would probably be fatal."

Manso has also been very critical of the current internal drift of Vox, a party that has ensured that before it was "broad spectrum" where "different sensibilities coexisted in peace and harmony", but in which it has gained weight in the last year "a faction cutting far, far, far to the right."

That "faction", he has denounced, "has taken control of the party in one night when it comes to drawing up the lists"; with a "national Catholic interventionist" component that is not shared by Espinosa de los Monteros or himself. On that side he has placed people like the MEP and spokesman for the Political Action Committee of Vox Jorge Buxadé; the institutional vice-secretary and elected deputy Ignacio de Hoces; or the advisers to Abascal Kiko Méndez Monasterio and Enrique Cabanas.

Manso thus questions the future of Vox if it continues along this "ideological drift" that he believes he has taken. As an example, he gives the 23J elections, where he believes that the Popular Party approached the left "very intelligently" to win votes from that spectrum and Vox, instead of "sticking to its right", leaned even more to the right; leaving an ideological vacuum that caused the abstention of thousands of his voters.

"In that ideological space very close to the right, it is a niche party," he warned, pointing out that this space will not allow it to fulfill the "healthy ambition" with which it was founded to be "a government party." "If we want a niche game where we have 15 or 20 seats that allow us to reach retirement age, that is something else," he slipped.

In addition, he has criticized the last electoral campaign, in which he has accused Vox of behaving like "the crying right-hander" distributing blame for its result and the campaign. "It is not reasonable not to understand that this is a market or an industry in which your competitors are not going to let you enter", he has compared, maintaining that the difficulties that Vox has suffered now were already in 2019.