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In October 2014, Julio Ariza, president of the Intereconomía Group, put

journalist

José Antonio Fúster at the head of the newspaper

La Gaceta

just a few weeks before announcing the closure of its printed edition.

In 2020, the Disenso Foundation, with Santiago Abascal as its main patron, acquired the header and restored him to the direction of the new header, renamed

La Gaceta de la Iberosfera

, with the Vox MEP, Hermann Tertsch, commanding the Editorial Board.

Number eight on the 28-M autonomous list for the Community of Madrid, headed by Rocío Monasterio, the regional deputy will now serve as national spokesperson for the radical right party after the step aside of Ignacio Garriga, general secretary and candidate in the Catalan elections.

A meteoric rise similar to that which he has experienced in recent months within the Parliamentary Group of the Madrid Assembly, where he was in charge of defending the debates on the proposal to reject the amnesty for the Catalan independence movement or the modification of the Trans Laws. and LGTBI.

Their repeal was one of the priority issues that Vox had set since its entry into the Madrid Parliament and that had conditioned its relationship with the PP.

Finally, the Ayuso Government opted for its modification, instead of its complete elimination.

"We are going to stop today to celebrate, but tomorrow we will get back to it. We are here to rebuild everything that has been destroyed," said Fúster from the platform of the regional Parliament on December 21 when the legislative change was approved.

The influence of the regional deputy, according to sources consulted by EL MUNDO, had been growing in recent months in Rocío Monasterio's group, with whom he had already coincided during their time in Intereconomía, as well as that of his benchmate

Ana Cuartero

.

In fact, Fúster holds the position of second deputy spokesperson for the party in the Madrid Assembly and was in charge of defending the party's position on that key issue of the Trans and LGTBI laws.

Sources close to Abascal's formation place the new national spokesperson as one of the important pieces in the media ecosystem close to Vox, linked to profiles such as the aforementioned

Julio Ariza, Hermann Tertsch or Kiko Méndez Monasterio

.

His journalistic beginnings were at the ABC School and at the start of the newspaper

La Razón,

but his main step is at the Intereconomía Group where, in addition to directing

La Gaceta,

he was also in charge of the group's Digital Media Area.

Before becoming a deputy, he was a regular talk show host on El Toro TV and 13TV.

The new national spokesperson for Vox has also been characterized in his short parliamentary career - he obtained the record for the first time in the month of May - for being one of the toughest with the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso at a time when relations between parties They are completely broken.

Without going any further, this past Thursday, he accused the

popular parties

of "softness" with respect to the postulates of the left in matters of Education.

"You are masters of disguise.

The elections are approaching, you dress up as Vox, but then you come to blend in with the socialists

. Do your voters already know this? Where did they leave their principles, for God's sake? In a Masseratti? Yes is that a social democrat is sooner caught than a lame person.

Fúster

is also a volunteer for the Order of Malta

, an international organization of a markedly religious nature based in Rome and whose full name is the Sovereign and Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta, to which members of the party belong. de Abascal as the

Minister

of Agriculture of the Valencian Community, José Luis Aguirre.

Founded in the 11th century, it is considered a State without territory and has a permanent seat as observers in the UN.