Vox shows its cards at the beginning of the political journey. The illegal immigration and the securitytwo of the fundamental pillars of Santiago Abascal’s political action, will have their own entity through a special spokesperson that they have just created and that will be led by the National Police Samuel Vazquez an agent with decades of experience in citizen security tasks, an expert in street gangs and whose Home office of Fernando Grande-Marlaska vetoed his attempt to enter politics with Vox.
Vázquez is now an advisor on domestic affairs to the Vox parliamentary group in Congress. An important figure in all issues related to citizen security, illegal immigration and everything related to the police and the Civil Guard.
He is also president of the association A 21st century police forcean organization that has been denouncing for years the shortcomings of the police model imposed by the government of Pedro Sánchez, based more on statistics than on the reality of the Spanish streets.
Vaquez was ultimately unable to appear on the Vox lists in Fuenlabrada, as was the party’s intention. As OKDIARIO reported, Vázquez had been designated number 2 by the team led by Santiago Abascal, but a last-minute disciplinary file from the Ministry of the Interior made him declared ineligible. A court rejected precautionary measures for the 2023 municipal elections.
At Vox, everything was ready for Samuel Vázquez, an agent of the National Police Corps (CNP) specializing in citizen security and Latin American gangs, to be number 2 on the Vox lists in Fuenlabrada for the municipal elections of 28M. Vázquez, who regularly patrolled the streets of the municipality as part of the unit specialized in serious crimes, even gave lectures in the Assembly of Madrid or the Congress of Deputies, where he made some deputies uncomfortable by debating taboo subjects such as the link between insecurity and illegal immigration.
This speech was uncomfortable for the Interior, which recently dusted off a disciplinary file filed years ago to remove him from his position. Another, recent file, was added to this file, due to a tweet published by the police association that he leads, but which was not signed by him. The result was the cancellation of his candidacy, thanks to a maneuver by the department of Fernando Grande-Marlaska, which Vázquez described as “prevarication” and was prepared to appeal. However, not in time for 28M.
Marlaska Veto
“Fait accompli: I am ineligible and, therefore, I cannot appear on the lists. Not because I have had a criminal conviction or any disqualification, but because the Director General of Police has opened a new file against me for a tweet that I did not even write. “That belongs to the association,” said the officer concerned by the Interior’s decision.
“The central investigating judge, the public prosecutor’s office and the public prosecutor’s office opposed the precautionary measures that would have allowed me to appear. The process against fundamental rights continues, but now, even if I win, I will never recover this right. However, if the precautionary measures had been accepted, even if I had lost, it would only have paralyzed an administrative case in which I have not even been heard yet. A case that could have continued upon my return to the force,” he added.
In other cases, as he tried to justify before the judge, precautionary measures had been granted to the agents so that, despite a pending case, they could appear on the lists as a fundamental right of political participation. This was not the case, although, according to Vázquez, he was not told why. In fact, he had not yet been called by the General Directorate of the National Police to know his version of the events attributed to him in said case.
“This implies one thing: I will never be able to run for office, since it is enough for a commander to open a file on my behalf, which is a discretionary act without any legal guarantee. They can open it on me even for a tweet that I did not write and that is not on my networks, and even without having been summoned to testify, this already cancels my right to passive suffrage,” lamented Vázquez.
This candidacy was an important bet by the party led by Santiago Abascal for a municipality traditionally considered a bastion of the left. In Fuenlabrada, the PSOE had governed without interruption since 1979, earning it the nickname “Fuenlingrad”. However, the PSOE’s control over the municipality could break: Isabel Díaz Ayuso had won there in the last regional elections, and the balance of power could change in the municipal elections on May 28.
