Politics Carles Puigdemont's first break
Relationships Marcela Topor and her stew potions for Puigdemont
The abstention of Junts Per Catalunya in the investiture of Pere Aragonés as president of the Generalitat is due to a fundamental reason: the role of the Council for the Republic.
That entity that Puigdemont directs, out of all public control.
That he directs and intends to continue directing, without an autonomous government led by ERC having any power over it and even dare to control it.
As can be read on the website of the Consell, "61% of the budget is allocated directly to
entity
to actions, events and projects.
The rest is used to maintain the structure of exile "
.
This "maintenance of the structure of exile" is the crux of the matter.
Nobody is aware that this "maintenance" is included as an essential item
the modus vivendi of Carles Puigdemont.
Which is not exactly moderate.
The escaped former president has spared no expense since he settled in Belgium.
When he chose residence in Waterloo he looked for a high standing mansion.
In the best area of the town, where the houses are rented to senior diplomats and Anderlecht footballers.
A property of 550 square meters built,
six bedrooms, three bathrooms, sauna, garage for four cars and a terrace of 100 square meters that overlooks a garden of another 1,000 square meters, for which a monthly rent of 4,400 euros is paid to the owner.
As if it were the Parisian Palace of Castile where Isabel II took refuge.
A house that multiplies by four the extension of its private home in the Girona Golf urbanization of Sant Julià de Ramis (Gerona), which was acquired in 2003 for a value of 280,000 euros, of which almost 100,000 has pending amortization.
It is obvious that the heritage of
Puigdemont
it is not even enough to maintain its current location.
Especially if one takes into account that when he made his last declaration of assets in the Catalan Parliament he only had capital distributed in several current accounts of 10,885 euros, without having pension plans, shares or other financial products in his name.
Now he has a better time with the receipt of his salary as an MEP (8,995.39 euros of salary plus 4,320 for expenses and 306 daily allowances).
Something must help him the salary of 6,000 euros per month
what does your wife get
Marcela topor
for presenting a program on the XAL, the television that depends on the Diputación de Barcelona.
But it doesn't have enough.
Not only does he have to pay the rent, keep the mansion (only 200,000 euros were spent on security),
pay the escorts, satisfy the minutes of their expensive lawyers
(both the Belgians who charge a minimum of 500 euros an hour and Boye and Alonso Cuevillas who do not work at a bargain price either) and invite to meals, washed down with good wines, to anyone who can provide international support for Catalan separatism.
For this, the Consell for the Republic is indispensable.
A mere question of crematism, especially when the old Convergence did not lead the result of 14-F.
The Consell's accounts are completely opaque.
If we go back to look at their website we can see that there is a section called "Transparency", but it does not save more than four brief lines.
Neither budgets nor income statements are published nor do we know who audits the organization.
It only stands out that they do not receive public subsidies and that 100% of their income comes from people registered with the institution and donations from individuals.
Nor is it that the number of registered has met expectations.
They expected a million registrations and they only reach, today, about 92,000.
The amount of the fees ranges from 10 to 250 euros per year.
They do not cover expenses.
Thus,
Puigdemont's plan is for the Consell to receive public funding.
What ERC opposes.
Public financing that would remain in the hands of the fugitive to pay for the "maintenance of the exile structure."
That is estimated at more than one million euros per year.
Plus fees and private donations, which are accounted for separately.
It is logical that he wants to have the key.
The Consell is your modus vivendi and guarantees you a comfortable life in cold Brussels.
Some compare the "exile" of Puigdemont with the true exile of Josep Tarradellas.
What a difference!
The elderly president lived for almost forty years in a house that his parents had bought in Saint Martin-le-Beau.
An old mansion of which Andrés Casinello, after visiting it as Adolfo Suárez's envoy, would describe:
"You have to get into your house, where everything is poverty,
to understand their dignity.
Banca Catalana would set up a palace for him, but he lives in a cold plain in central France with warm heating, no bathroom, furniture no longer used by non-commissioned officers and only the luxury of a good library and a record player. " a Consell is missing and he refused to maintain any phantasmagorical organism. The Generalitat embodied it alone together with a couple of secretaries.
Pablo Iglesias equating exiles
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