• Former 'number 2' 'Teo' and his "networking snack": the PP politician who will not go on the lists

  • Teodoro García Egea The fall of the man who has shaped the PP with a heavy hand

The thing was ending and the

cryptobro

kept saying

words

in English, prophesying the end of the stock markets, mentioning the "cryptoanarchist manifesto" (not a little for a former general secretary of the PP), in general showing himself to be a true

geek

on the subject...

But hell, although that had a lot of air of a quasi-political act -including the kiss at the end-, not a trace of allusions to the elephant in the room: after all,

Teodoro García Egea

can be -no one doubts it- an expert in

blockchain

, but hell, above all he is the person who until seven months ago - that is, until the day before yesterday - ruled with an iron fist and (they say) sandpaper glove one of the two main parties in Spain.

Luckily, in the end, during question time, after a gibberish of decentralized payment systems, unknown European directives and similar moves, someone asked him the question: "What is more volatile: the world of cryptocurrencies, or the world of politics?".

García Egea smiled casually looking down and a soft general laugh took over the stalls, not filled to the brim, but very far from the feeling of prick, about 100 attendees.

And then the former number 2 of the PP went out to fight far from the deputy they say he has become in the

Lower House

: a silent guy, often mute, who prefers to vote electronically rather than expose himself to the plenary, not a word to the media, perhaps still going through the mourning of what he experienced: one of the cruelest defenestrations, if not the most, seen in Spanish politics, that meat grinder.

"You have to know where you're going, and if you know where you're going, there's no problem," he said, closing the microphone and not making it very clear if he knew where he was going when he tried

to

kill

Isabel Díaz Ayuso

, but receiving the last applause of a dedicated

Cajamar Cultural Classroom

, in the beautiful historic center of the Murcian capital.

Thus, and now we will get to the morbidity of networking snacking, Teo García Egea became a

crypto-prophet

in his land last night.

The name is not free.

If he doesn't know much about this arcane world of

cryptos

, García Egea hides it well.

He predicted that

blockchain

, as a decentralized architecture, will change the world economy and "our lives".

He assured that smart contracts based on this technology "will force lawyers to learn programming."

He said, "There are a lot of people in the garage today, like

Steve Jobs

was ."

He advocated that

cryptos

are not a pyramid scam, that behind the only money we knew until now there is nothing but trust in institutions and for this new one it can be worth trusting in "simple structures and protocols".

But above all, the evening was one more step in the career (carrerón) of this doctor in Telecommunications, an expert in neurotechnology who does triathlons, throws olive pits very far, plays the bandurria well enough to have thus convinced his wife to married him and, by the way, was one of the most powerful guys in Spanish politics, but not anymore.

A moment from the conference yesterday at Aula Cultural Cajamar, in Murcia.

Do you remember those children's books

Teo in the circus

,

Teo on the beach

and

Teo in a balloon

?

Well, that: now Teo, only seven months after leaving the leadership of the PP, is already in the

crypto world

.

The new economic religion needs preachers and he, it is true, has not just joined the bandwagon.

In 2012, his work on this field received an award from the

European Commission

.

Four years ago he was already in this same place, next to the beautiful facade of the Romea Theater, evangelizing with the new economy.

In his office in Genoa, commented on by Spartan, there seemed to be little more than some photos of him with

Pablo Casado

and other buddies from the management, and a kind of replica of a silver bitcoin.

For another perhaps it would be too early to sell a new reincarnation when one perhaps has not stopped bleeding - filtering that

Feijóo

knew about the pact with

Pedro Sánchez

for the CGPJ has not made him or his people more likeable in the new PP -.

But not for García Egea, who goes through life at full speed: he is 37 years old, has three children and the curriculum of several people at the same time.

In any case, if

blockchain

, he said, is going to change the economy and even ways of thinking -"there are Mexican farmers receiving financing from Germany, this allows doing business without intermediaries, even without trust between the parties"-, why not Did you apply any of that philosophy when you walked through the constituencies and carved addresses with a hammer, leaving, according to your critics, too many corpses along the way?

Life is a thankless thing.

"He has participated in the formation of 15 autonomous governments", García Egea was presented last night in Murcia.

Not far from the conference of this revived Teo, who was once in politics a

cryptoactive

like those whose value changes more than Rosalía's nails, the regional government that he himself set up is still comfortably seated in the

Palacio de San Esteban

, after leave Casado and him in the lurch.

I must say that it was fun at times.

The man recounted, abandoning himself a little to the accent of the land, that "there is a valley in Switzerland where taxes are paid in cryptocurrencies", that a friend of his is so hung up on NFTs that he has put one in a video game "and he thinks that you can earn a lot of money", and that -beware, politics- thanks to

blockchain

you could vote "a little more than every four years" (let's see if now this supporter of the plebiscitary democracy of that first Podemos is going to be... ).

Garcia Egea, speaking with one of the attendees at the 'snacking'.

Come on, and then the

networking

snack .

Nothing, everyone calm down, there was nothing but a traffic of hugs, pats on the back, confidences and, again, a little kissing from fans to Teo, who could barely eat a seafood (bread with salad and an anchovy) in the

square Julian Romeo

.

Those present there, a university professor told us, were "half of the politicians close to him, half of the university community" -organized by the Enae business school, attached to the two Murcian public universities-.

Also a few onlookers and, during the snack, several old-age canaperos neighbors without any scruples to take away the potato omelette.

The croquettes were delicious, there was no known throwing of olive stones and García Egea ruled the Murcian night at ease on the terrace of a restaurant, which, by the way, had a curious name:

Andalusian Parliament.

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