The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has seen Signs of irregular financing in Vox and has begun to investigate them. Well, it was about time. Josep Pla's classic question ("Who pays for this?") is full of black spots and shadows when it is asked in relation to the European extreme right, in general, and the Spanish extreme right, in particular. Also in the Catalan one: the Court of Auditors has detected "legal breaches and infringements" in its first audit report on the Catalan Alliance, as you can read in the information of this newspaper.
In the European Parliament, Vox is part of the Patriots for Europe group, or simply Patriots, the same group to which Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union, which is Viktor Orbán’s party, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally or Matteo Salvini’s Italian Lega belong. They are the third group in the European Parliament, and represent an anti-European Union front that feeds, by parasitizing them, on the resources of the European institutions. Also, on money from Russia, since the Patriots for Europe are Putin’s friends in Europe. This means that they are also the representatives of Trump’s interests, given the increasingly evident consolidation of the understanding between the US and Russia against the European Union, which was made evident and overinterpreted in the episode of Trump and his lame Vance's assault on Zelensky, inside the Oval Office. Patriots for Europe could be called Trojan Horses for Europe. Or, to use a word they like very much, Traitors against Europe. It is the same group that Aliança Catalana will join if one day it has representation in the European Parliament (it is foreseeable that it will). Its reason for being is to destabilise the Union, in favour of the interests of a Russian president who acts like a dictator and an American president who challenges democratic powers.
The oil that drives the Latin American boards of all this patriotic furor on both sides of the Atlantic is money. Putin's money reaches his European friends via oligarchs, and also through Fidesz, which apparently acts as a distribution box. A far-right journalist like Jiménez Losantos, who has fallen out with Santiago Abascal over fascist issues, last week accused the leader of Vox of having received nine million euros from Putin through Orbán: these characters have zero credibility, but they usually tell the truth when they have tantrums among themselves, which is often. More certain, because it was confirmed by the interested party himself, is the origin of one million euros with which Vox was financed at the beginning: they came from the National Council of Resistance of Iran, or CNRI, a group of Iranian millionaires opposed to the Tehran regime, for whom Aleix Vidal-Quadras worked as a lobbyist during the lobbying period. 80% of Vox's campaign in the European elections was also funded by Iranians. It is good to remember these things, and it is good (after all these years of letting them run riot) that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is finally interested in Vox.
