Former Vox spokesperson (now an unaffiliated MP) Idoia Ribas made national news when she denounced Vox as a "pyramid scheme." Ribas claimed to have been pressured when she was part of the parliamentary group to divert money from the group to the party and expressed suspicion that it was later transferred to Santiago Abascal's Disenso Foundation. Faced with these accusations, Vox found the support of the majority of parliamentary groups for the first time in the legislature. While the Catalan government urged Ribas to take the alleged misappropriation of funds to the foundation to court if she had evidence—she has ruled this out—the PSIB and MÉS por Mallorca argued that diverting a portion of the aid the groups receive to their acronyms is both legal and commonplace.