Voice financed last year’s general and municipal election campaigns with separate loans totaling 9.2 million granted by the Hungarian bank Magyar Bankholding (MBH)the second in the country.
Sources from Santiago Abascal’s party confirmed Monday that they had turned to MBH, a bank that the newspaper El Confidencial reports in information published to the far-right Hungarian prime minister. Viktor Orban. Abascal’s entourage justifies these credit operations by the refusal of Spanish banking entities to finance them, unlike the PSOE and the PP and although they are the third in the country.
Vox’s management report for the year 2023 reveals that it owes banks 9,229,444 euroscorresponding to the appropriations requested to face the general and municipal elections. For the general elections, he requested a credit of 6.5 million, while the amount of credit for the municipal elections amounted to 2.6 million.
Some “completely legal” loanswhich have already been returned by Vox and which have been duly communicated to the Court of Auditors, assured the sources, who stressed that, if necessary again, they would resort again to foreign banks for financing.
Millán: “I don’t know if this bank is close to Orbán or not”
“We did it and we will do it again if necessary.“, said the sources, who thus downplayed the importance of the loans granted by the Hungarian bank. After Vox sources confirmed the loan, Congress spokesperson Pepa Millán also alluded to the impossibility of obtaining this financing in Spain and the “deliberate or not” delay of the general administration in the payment of electoral expenses is the reason why it is addressed to the Hungarian entity.
“I don’t know if this bank is close to Orbán or not.“I know it’s a Hungarian bank,” Millán also underlined, questioned by journalists in the corridors of Congress. On the other hand, at Vox we are not worried about the insinuations of the MEP of Se Acabó La Fiesta, Alvise Pérez, according to which Santiago Abascal He 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 admitted not having communicated to the Treasury.
In statements to journalists in Congress after his meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, the Vox leader confirmed this Monday that he had filed the announced complaint against Alvise. Abascal, however, expressed his respect for the 800,000 people who voted for him in the European elections and who “have had enough of corruption” and thought that “other political forces should not be trusted.” Vox sources estimate, however, that Alvise will be “paid” by tax fraudbecause it not only hurts him personally, but also those who voted for him as their “last hope”.
