Millán will be the voice of Vox in parliament for the next legislature, as confirmed by the Vox leader when he went to collect his credentials as a deputy to Congress.
The leader of the formation assures that “his background” in the Senate “endorses it”, and highlighted his questioning of the Prime Minister in that Chamber, when only “a few parliamentarians are capable of doing so.” Abascal has indicated that they have very high expectations with the new spokeswoman and that she will represent the position with “great dignity” and believes that her promotion shows that at Vox “there is a youth system and there is a team.”
He has also regretted the departure of Espinosa de los Monteros “a great loss for Vox”, although with the entry of Millán they also gain “a great spokesperson who made her debut in Parliament having to question the President of the Government and singing the 40 to him and doing it like very few parliamentarians, just as very few deputies and senators are capable of doing so”.
María José Rodríguez de Millán Parro, 28 years old and born in Cabra (Córdoba), graduated in Law from the University of Seville, is studying for a double master’s degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Contract Law and Civil Liability and has studies in opposition to the body of Property Registrars.
During the last legislature, Pepa Millán served as an adviser to the Vox group in the Andalusian Parliament, focused on areas of employment, equality, promotion and the presidency, until she was appointed senator by autonomous designation of Andalusia on July 26, 2022.
In these twelve months the Upper House has been the voice of Vox and has starred in tough debates with the Government of Pedro Sánchez. That role of hers led her to Abascal’s list for Madrid in the July 23 elections, in fifth place, and she now ascends to the spokesperson for the parliamentary group in Congress.
According to Abascal, Espinosa’s departure is strictly due to family reasons and denies any type of ideological struggle between factions of different lines within the formation. “I’m sorry to puncture your globe, but there is no family or faction here, from “liberals, national-Catholics, Falangists, even pre-conciliar”, Abascal has settled in statements to the media. “There is no ideological debate, it has never existed”.
In any case, he continued, “as in all parties, there are people who are not satisfied when they do not have a document, when they are not elected.” On the other hand, he argued that there is no programmatic point of those presented by the party with which any member has shown discrepancies. And, yes, “those who want to sow division and discord or those who bet on personalities obviously have no place in Vox”, he has stressed, alluding to the critics.
Abascal has also taken the opportunity to charge against the PSOE and to make an assessment of the current situation. In this sense, he reproached that the pro-independence parties “boast of their ability to blackmail” and “bring about their possibility of paralyzing political life” in reference to the importance of the seats of parties such as Junts or ERC to reach a pact of investiture that is based “on the destruction of Spain”.
