José Antonio Fster, new national spokesperson for Vox and key player in the media ecosystem related to Abascal’s party

In October 2014, Julio Ariza, president of the Intereconoma Group, headed the newspaper The Gazette to the journalist José Antonio Fster 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 head and restored him to the direction of the new head, renamed The Iberosphere Gazettewith Vox MEP Hermann Tertsch commanding the Editorial Board.

Number eight on the 28-M autonomous list for the Community of Madrid, headed by Roco 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 elections. 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 to 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 return to the fray. We are here to rebuild everything that has been destroyed,” said Fster from the podium of the autonomous 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 Roco Monasterio’s group, with whom he had already coincided during their time in Intereconoma, as well as that of his benchmate. Ana Cuartero. In fact, Fster 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 those mentioned. Julio Ariza, Hermann Tertsch or Kiko Mndez Monasterio. His journalistic beginnings were at the ABC School and at the start of the newspaper The Reason, but his main step is through the Intereconoma Group where, in addition to directing The Gazette 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 of “softness” with respect to the postulates of the left in matters of Education. “You are masters of disguise. The elections are approaching, they dress up as Vox, but then they come to blend in with the socialists. Do your voters already know this? Where were their principles left, for God’s sake? In a Masseratti? “If a social democrat is caught sooner than a lame person.”

Fster He is also a volunteer for the Order of Maltaan international organization of a marked religious character 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 Abascal’s party belong, such as counselor of Agriculture of the Valencian Community, Jos Luis Aguirre. Founded in the 11th century, it is considered a State without territory and has a permanent seat as observers in the UN.

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