'El Mundo' and Ortega Smith's WhatsApp messages

BarcelonaEl Mundo publishes exclusively this Monday the WhatsApp messages regarding the expulsion of Javier Ortega Smith from Vox. The information is quite revealing, because it shows that it is not enough to agree on it with the leadership, but that it must then be executed in a very specific way, which is by also expelling Javier Ortega Smith from the formation's WhatsApp groups. And this apparently was not so simple. In one of the screenshots published by the newspaper, it can be seen how the general secretary, Ignacio Garriga, informs of the decision in one of these groups: "Javier, the national executive committee has unanimously agreed (19 yeses) on your dismissal as a member. Please, leave the group".

But here it is that Ortega Smith, practicing a kind of passive resistance in the style of Gandhi, refuses and limits himself to writing: "Against". And then Garriga replies: "Seeing that you are not leaving the group, I proceed to create a new one. This group ceases to be operational. I will thank the members of the committee to leave the group". The question is: wouldn't it have been easier to directly expel Ortega Smith from the group? Well, it seems that the only way to avoid being kicked out of a group is to be the creator yourself. Therefore, it is very likely that Ortega Smith, who was affiliate number 6 to Vox and, therefore, one of its founding members, was the creator of this primordial group of the Vox leadership (he was also secretary general), of which now only he is a part.

Of all the endings for a politician, this is one of the most grotesque I have ever seen. Because it is not only someone who is abandoned by his former colleagues, but he also leaks the messages to the press so that everyone sees how shoddy everything has been shoddy.