Overview
- Vox issued a formal statement defending its contracts with Tizona Comunicación after reporting that the firm billed the party nearly €1.3 million in 2020.
- Tizona’s work, as described by Vox, included communication advice, video production, website management, daily press briefs, candidate training, speechwriting, and international outreach, with a staff of about 20 to 25 in 2019 and 2020.
- The party said Spain’s Tribunal de Cuentas, the state audit body, reviewed these contracts and did not flag irregularities, though Vox did not disclose total payments across all related companies.
- Media reports have detailed direct awards and specific sums, with El País citing more than €0.5 million in 2019 and nearly €1.3 million in 2020, and El Confidencial reporting a €22,145 per month contract plus VAT starting in 2024.
- Critics inside Vox link the payments to potential conflicts of interest, including the hiring of Santiago Abascal’s wife for €63,600 a year, and an expulsion case has been opened against Castilla y León vice president Juan García-Gallardo.