• Chronicle The cries of De la Cierva son: "Let Txapote vote for you, genocide" and "With Franco there was no VAT"

Chema de la Cierva no longer yells "Txapote vote for you."

The guy who subverted a live connection from Televisión Española launching the popular slogan against the Prime Minister,

Pedro Sánchez

, in reference to the parties that carried out the motion of censure that ousted Rajoy, has a more prosaic mission, some pending accounts , a handful of debts that he invoices to Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox.

The new cry of Chema de la Cierva, son of the historian Ricardo de la Cierva, a viral vanguard against "the progressives", the

millennial

Pozí in times of ideological tension, is "Abascal pay me".

Idealism parked, only unfulfilled promises remain.

Chema de la Cierva is a professional photographer.

"About to start the 2021 campaign for the Community of Madrid,

I receive a call from Vox's head of audiovisuals, Jaime Hernández. They wanted to hire me exclusively for that campaign

.

They promise me 100 euros a day for 30, plus the rental of the equipment.

They were going to register me with Social Security.

The party was going to take care of gasoline and diets.

They put at my disposal a car rented by the party.

We agreed that I was going to do four or five more hours editing the photos.

The goal was for me to become part of the AV team."

In the end, he regrets, they only fulfilled the car.

Chema de la Cierva began collaborating with the party in 2018. He was another volunteer affiliate.

When he was not photographing the weddings of his clients, he paid for the trips out of his own pocket, for example, to Seville.

"I went to the closing of the campaign. I did it selflessly. The party was growing.

They were short of photographers

. It was all more

amateur

. I have been taking photographs all my life."

The action

Cañas por España

, starring Ortega Smith, was the first order.

The portraits of him liked.

It had started working.

"

Then they kept calling me to go to a multitude of events

". Chema de la Cierva would travel from Talavera de la Reina to any place where there was an aspiring politician who needed an official image. "To candidate presentations.

To the meeting they had with them before the first elections, at the La Muñoza farm.

After that job they paid me the expenses, something symbolic, come on, that I received so as not to palm off.

From the first moment he compiled his more or less labor relationship, more or less voluntary with Vox.

He keeps credentials, proof of having gone to photograph events, photographic material, WhatsApp conversations or phone calls that weigh several gigabytes.

"It had to be recorded."

In a recorded call, to which

Crónica

has had access , he speaks with Rogelio, then in charge of the party's payroll.

"That's not how things are done", "I don't know what happened in your case", "I didn't know you existed", "it hasn't been done well" or "we say that things should be done well and then not

"

, Rogelio tried to justify not having discharged Chema de la Cierva, who had ceased to be autonomous.

"With the pandemic, there were no weddings. My financial situation was not good. I had to pay the bills. Support my family."

After working three days, "in long shifts of 12 or 14 hours," he stood up.

"At first they told me they would pay me 3,000 euros. Then, yes, 2,500 gross. In the end, they offered me 1,500"

.

1,500, Rogelio explains by phone, "everyone" charged.

Another of the calls ends abruptly when the hero of the digital uprising blurts out to the Vox employee "in the end I'm going to end up paying for work."

Chema de la Cierva working for Vox at a party event

Chema, however, was suspicious.

"It was a cave of plugged in. Manuel Mariscal, instead of fixing my issue, called me to ask if I knew any

junior

photographers . I asked to change the name of the driver to the car when I got angry with them and I received fines. There was always some excuse so as not to register. There was money for everyone except me. Remember the dinners at headquarters. "In style.

They always asked for 30 pizzas." Now he is demanding compensation "for damages" from the party. He prioritized Vox before other jobs.

"I stopped earning a lot of money

." His intention is to "repair my honor.

They despised me without the slightest consideration.

As a freelancer, they owe me a thousand bucks a day of work.

Ideally, they would pay me what they owe me."

Vox's double betrayal

But it's not just about money.

"Vox is yet another gear of the 2030 Agenda camouflaged as a right-wing party," adds Chema.

"I thought it represented the values ​​of the traditional Spanish family"

, but the prominence on social networks of characters like Madame in Spain related to Abascal's party, has led him to think otherwise.

"I wrote on Twitter: 'Trans and travelos disgust me' and everyone, including Abascal, jumped on me. He wrote that it sucked. I don't care. My father said that if they speak ill of you in Spain it means that something you will have done well.

It has made me more famous. I will sell more books. If they hate me, better"

, he assumes.

Among Vox's digital bases there is a conspiracy theory that his appearance on TVE was a government setup.

"My cell phone smokes me. They call me to threaten me. They are harassing me."

The controversy spread to the youtuber

Infovlogger

, who left Twitter for a while.

"I will only come to post the videos and little else. Thank a certain character who claims to be right-wing and who in 2 minutes has set back 20,000 steps the fight that many of us have been carrying out for so long. See you," he told Chema.

"I say what I think. We have a dictatorship camouflaged as democracy. I am a hard-working family man. I kill myself to work, and the leader of the third political force in Spain comes to say that I stink? Let's see if he comes to chat with me face to face I portray him literally.

The only thing I want is for them to send me one of these posh Cayetanos with an envelope with money and get out of my life

."

From the party they reject the version of the photographer.

"We did not promise him anything. He was a volunteer. The fines were paid by Vox."

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