Vox no longer has a local office in Menorca: "The party is broken up"
The state leadership has almost absolute control over loyal regional deputies, while Menorcan cadres try to rebuild its structure
PalmaThe implosion of Vox has reached its peak in Madrid. But in the Balearic Islands, the "series" (as Santiago Abascal defined it) has already finished its seasons. Vox in Menorca is a desert: the party has lost all institutional representation on the island. For six months, the remaining cadres have been trying to rebuild, but they lack people. "We find it hard to find people who want to identify with Vox," admits the party coordinator, Pedro Marqués: "In Menorca, being from Podem is not a problem, but saying you are from Vox still commands respect." All this while the parliamentary group, which has lost three deputies, is diluted under the national leadership of the party. Only in Ibiza has Vox been saved from the fratricidal war. But the PP is so strong in this territory that the far-right is cornered there, as it is in Galicia.
The greatest ambition of a new party is to obtain institutional representation. How could it have gone from having a regional deputy for Menorca, an island councilor, and two councilors (one in Maó and the other in Ciutadella), and lose them due to internal disputes? “Vox can forget about Menorca”, assures Alejandro Llabrés, who resigned as leader of Vox Joves in Menorca at the end of 2025. Upon leaving, he closed his Instagram account. “This is a small place”, he states: “If they know that they have been fighting among themselves, they shouldn't expect people to trust them again”. Even if polls favor Vox, he predicts that constant internal ruptures will take their toll on the far-right.
“After so many crises, so many resignations, departures, Vox Menorca is in tatters”, points out the Menorcan deputy Xisco Cardona, who left the party due to differences with the leadership. Cardona's departure was a consequence of the parliamentary group's rupture –which resulted in two more departures–, and also left Vox out of the Maó City Council, as he was the party's only councilor. For him, the experience of crises in the Balearic Islands is a consequence of instability. “What they provoke in institutions, as a rebound effect, turns into internal instability”, he states: “You can't do politics like this”.
“A pattern of self-destruction”
generalized, with a pattern of self-destruction ordered by the state leadership of Vox,” he considers. This is what he has denounced on social media.
“The miracle is that the party is growing”The island councilor and councilwoman of Ciutadella, Maite de Medrano, was expelled from Vox in June 2025, leaving the party without representation in Menorca. She has signed the manifesto launched by about fifteen prominent former leaders of Vox at the state level to call for an extraordinary congress. For Medrano, the constant trickle of resignations and expulsions is not accidental. "It responds to a generalized modus operandi, with a pattern of self-destruction ordered by the state leadership of Vox," she considers. She has denounced this on social media.
“The miracle is that the party is growing”
On the other hand, sources from the officialist sector of Vox point to the “atta”cks of the media –orchestrated, they say, by the PP– as causes of internal desgaste. “The miracle is that, with these attacks, the party is growing”, assures a voice from the formation.“Who does Javier Ortega Smith work for, for the PP?”, he says about the Madrid councilman and state deputy, who was expelled from the party in February. “Ortega Smith complains a lot, but he has made critical statements for which he would have been kicked out of any party”, opines another Vox source: “In his era as general secretary, he had his men in black, who were getting rid of people”.
For political scientist Julián Claramunt, “the crisis that Vox is experiencing advanced” in the Islands. “The internal battles in the Balearic Parliament –which resulted in the loss of three deputies– and in Menorca are a precedent for what we find at other levels”, he assures. Vox Balears was constituted with alliances with island entities related to gonellism, including Actúa Baleares, led by Jorge Campos. This, in the long run, opened the door to tensions with the leadership. “But in Vox there is only one line, which is the winning one”, he affirms: “Alternatives or profiles of leaders with their own line or nuances are not accepted”.
This force from the state executive ended up imposing itself on the parliamentary group, even though at the height of the internal crisis, Vox was on the verge of losing six deputies out of a total of eight. Finally, there were three departures and the party was reconstituted around the figure of the President of the Chamber, Gabriel Le Senne. He also controls the internal organization of the party and is sounding like a probable candidate for the next elections. However, Le Senne's situation is fragile: imposed by the leadership, he does not have solid support among the Balearic cadres. Meanwhile, the dissidents who are now outside the group are freely expressing themselves in the media against the party.
There is only one territory that has been saved from internal clashes of this category: Ibiza. Why? For Claramunt, because it is deactivated by the popular party. “When the PP is the system party, as happens in Galicia, Vox has it difficult to progress”, defends the political scientist: “The PP is the ”statu quo party on the island, and this expels Vox as a real alternative”. According to a critical voice from the party, then, the key is in power. “In Ibiza, Vox does not influence any government”, he summarizes.
