Olona will travel throughout Spain and set up a support network for her new project

Macarena Olona is not going home. The ex number two of Vox in Congress and former candidate of the ultra party to the Junta de Andalucía will tour Spain in the coming months explaining her project and will launch territorial structures to promote it although, still, it is not a political party, but a “cultural and cultural battle”. ideology against criminal gender ideology”, according to her words. In other words, a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) that repeals the law on gender violence and the trans law —in parliamentary procedure—, among others.

In his first press conference since he left Vox and resigned his seat in the Andalusian Parliament, 100 days ago, Olona made it clear this Friday at the Casa de América in Madrid that he is not abandoning the political front line, but for now neither takes the step of launching a new party. The State lawyer on leave has wanted to reassure her former co-religionists by categorically ruling out that she is going to stand as a candidate in the next municipal and regional elections, but she has shown herself willing to support “from outside” some specific candidacies in these elections . She although she has not revealed what the lists would be olonistshas targeted Vox dissidents by mentioning, as an example, the head of the ultra party list for A Coruña in the last regional elections, Ricardo Morado, present at today’s event.

In addition, she has left the door open to stand again as a candidate for Congress in the next general elections, “as long as my irruption does not put at risk the necessary balance that must be maintained when forming the next Government of Spain”; that is, as long as the fragmentation of the vote on the right does not end up giving victory to the left. “We have to wait for the next regional and municipal elections to find out what the will of the Spanish people is,” she insisted, postponing her decision until May.

For now, Olona will return in the coming weeks to the Carrera de San Jerónimo to present his Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) in the Chamber registry. The former deputy has found in this formula, regulated by a 1984 law, the way to continue in the political limelight without holding public office.

Once the initiative has been accepted by the Congress Bureau, Olona will have a period of nine months, extendable to 12, to collect half a million signatures throughout all of Spain. To collect them, he has assured, he will create territorial structures and mobilize “an army of volunteers”. If she is successful in collecting signatures, she herself will go back up to the Hemicycle rostrum to defend the ILP as the promoter of the proposal. Although she has assured that her initiative “is not a subterfuge to create a party”, this structure could serve as a skeleton for a future political force in the event that she finally decides to create it.

How will the operation be financed? Olona recalled that the law provides for compensating the promoters of an ILP for the expenses incurred up to a maximum of 300,000 euros. Although the true figurehead of Olona’s new project is the Fundación Igualdad Iberoamericana, registered in Panama. As she has assured, all the expenses incurred so far by the foundation, of which she is president and founder, have been paid exclusively by herself, including the $10,000 necessary for registration in the registry. Going forward, she has admitted, she will need to raise funds, through crowdfunding [colecta] or donations, to defray its considerable expenses, since the foundation, which already has headquarters in Panama, plans to expand to Santo Domingo, Colombia and Argentina, among other countries.

The objective of the foundation is the same as that of the Popular Legislative Initiative: “To unite Hispanic people in one voice against gender ideology,” according to Olona, ​​who is already negotiating collaboration agreements with ultra-conservative associations, evangelical communities and associations of separated parents. Thus, his Olona initiative not only snatches some of his main ideological banners from his former party, but will also compete with the founding of Santiago Abascal (Dissent) for hegemony among the most right-wing sectors of the Ibero-American political and economic world.

In the “uncensored” press conference in which all the media were able to participate, as she herself has underlined – as opposed to Vox, which does not allow some media outlets to enter its events, including EL PAÍS —, Olona has assured that he is still in contact with some former classmates “but discreetly”. “I have told them that this is not the time to immolate themselves,” she added, assuming that they would be expelled from the party if it is known that they are related to her.