Marcela Topor , the wife of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont , will continue one more season at the helm of her television program thanks to the funding of the Diputación de Barcelona, ​​now chaired by the PSC.

La Xarxa, the local television dependent on the supramunicipal entity governed by the Socialists along with JxCat, has just announced the renewal of The Weekly Mag , the space directed by Topor that is broadcast weekly.

So far, the wife of the independence leader escaped from the Spanish Justice in Belgium received a subsidy of 36,000 euros semiannually to finance her program. This is stated in the contracting portal of La Xarxa, where in the last two years there is a first grant of 36,000 euros awarded to Topor on December 20, 2017 to carry out the “production” of its program until June 30, 2018. That subsidy was automatically renewed the following day, on July 1, 2018, date on which the woman from Puigdemont received a new injection of 36,000 euros to continue financing her space until December 31, 2018. In short, 6,000 Euros per month.

The grants of this year have not yet been published by La Xarxa, which does not allow to know the budget that Topor will have to issue its program. However, the local television network under the Barcelona Provincial Council has already announced the renewal of the space and its "next" broadcast.

Defends the chain dependent on the Diputación his "commitment" to the program of interviews in English that presents the woman of Puigdemont every Saturday afternoon for the need to "open a window to learning English in Catalan audiovisual with a product attractive and quality ». He adds that the magazine can serve as a "teaching resource for schools."

The renewal of the Topor program has been announced three months after the PSC and JxCat sealed an agreement to govern together the Diputación de Barcelona, ​​an entity that has come to preside over the mayor of Hospitalet, Núria Marín , and manages an annual budget of 1,000 million euros.

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The spokesman for Citizens in the Diputación de Barcelona, Salvador Tovar , has already demanded from Marin information about the new contract to Puigdemont's wife after denouncing that “it seems clear that the PSC will not allow Topor's program to stop being broadcast because could jeopardize the pact with its JxCat partners ».

Popularly known among the Catalan political class as the "feeder", the Diputación has a workforce of 4,000 workers and their high salaries cause that there are few mayors who declare "exclusive dedication" to the Diputación to see their emoluments increased. The president of the Diputación de Barcelona charges 7,400 euros gross monthly at the rate of 14 monthly payments per year and the deputies, 3,980 euros per month.

The grants granted by the agency have served to irrigate other controversial purposes, such as the operation of the Platform for La Llengua, the entity that spied children in the yards of 50 Catalan schools to check if they spoke Catalan. The self-appointed «Catalan NGO» received 170,000 euros from the Barcelona Provincial Council between 2014 and 2019.

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