'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, as it shows that it's not enough to agree to it with the leadership, but it must then be executed in a very specific way, which is also by expelling Javier Ortega Smith from the party's WhatsApp groups. And this apparently wasn't so simple. In one of the screenshots published by the newspaper, the general secretary, Ignacio Garriga, is seen informing of the decision in one of these groups: "Javier, the national executive committee has unanimously agreed (19 yeses) 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 do not leave the group, I proceed to create a new one. This group ceases to be operational. I will thank the committee members 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 member number 6 of Vox and, therefore, one of its foundational members, was the creator of this primordial group of the Vox leadership (he was also secretary general), of which now only he is part.

Of all the endings of 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 shabby it has all been shabby.