Vox is a party that treasures great paradoxes. He demands cutting off the tap of subsidies to unions while financing his own union, Solidarity, with state resources. Cry out to the four winds against the «chiringuitos»but in its galaxy there are increasingly more companies and foundations that, according to critics, have dubious accounting.
It proposes the closure of regional television stations and it is the Board of Directors of Canal Sur – that is, a public entity – that covers part of the salary of its national press officer. A practice that, as published by LA RAZÓN, becomes the norm so as not to have to let go of the money to the emissaries that he sends to the territories to “spy” on their barons.
And Vox tries to place itself on the margins of the system, with a scholastic puritanism when it comes to repudiating politics as a way of life. The reality, however, is that its leader knows no other job. And it is precisely the perks of the system that now allow it to have in Castilla y León a campaign manager who is on the payroll not of the party, but of the Presidency of the Cortes, which the candidate still holds, Carlos Pollan.
In this specific case Vox is not an exception in Spain, far from it. Most parties have people assigned to institutional positions who then perform organic functions. The difference is that not everyone is at mass and ringing.
Javier García Pérezresponsible for Pollán’s campaign, landed at Vox from a radio station. Her supporter was Montse Lluisdeputy general secretary and territorial representative of Kiko Méndez-Monasteriothe factotum of Santiago Abascal who is neither affiliated nor even has a position in the party.
A salary of more than 3,700 euros per month
Javier García Pérez’s first performance in politics took place in the Ministry of Culture, where he was head of press until July 2024, the month in which the regional governments were dissolved. Days later, in August, he joined as “advisor in the Office of the President”, with a gross salary of 3,725.30 euros per month.
However, Montse Lluis, who was a key piece in the team of the then vice president of Castilla y León (much to his regret, because that ended worse than bad), decided to entrust Pollán’s advisor, president of the Cortes, with functions far from the institution and focused on the organic life of Vox, not in the region, but in all of Spain.
In fact, he did not even have his residence in Valladolid. And he spent his days traveling from one end to the other to resolve internal entanglements. For example, in Ciudad Real. Or in Santander, where he was sent to mediate in the crisis that broke out within the group in the Parliament of Cantabria and which resulted in the departure of a deputy.
According to different Vox sources, he lived “between Madrid and Toledo”. This newspaper has contacted García Pérez to verify his place of residence and if there has been any recent move – since he is currently running Pollán’s campaign – but has not received any response.
«Javier’s mission was to be, in the territorial area of Castilla y León, the delegate of Montse Lluis. The problem is that it did not provide service to the office of the presidency of the Cortes and extended its scope of action to other autonomous communities,” the party told LA RAZÓN. As Antonio Candel in the Region of Murcia. EITHER Pilar González in Aragon. It has been now, that his hierarchical superior leaves an institutional position where there is one to be a candidate, when he has dedicated his professional activity to it.