Spain's far-right Vox party has confirmed the expulsion of several senior members, including Javier Ortega Smith — a former co-founder and one of the party's most prominent figures — along with Madrid city councillors Carla Toscano and Ignacio Ansaldo, after their appeals against disciplinary proceedings were rejected by the party's national executive. The purge comes amid growing internal tensions over Vox's unconditional alignment with Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which former leaders have criticised as damaging to the party's self-described patriotic identity, particularly given Israel's threats against Spain and attacks on Spanish UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. The expulsions leave Vox with only two seats on Madrid's city council and could push the ousted members toward the orbit of Italian far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's European Conservatives and Reformists group, which has no Spanish partner ahead of the 2029 European elections.