In Spain, the assets of the Spanish Executive were unveiled this Friday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) which published according to updated statements those of the president, ministers and the rest of the senior officials of the coalition government.
The second vice-president, Pablo Iglesias (Podemos), declared a total capital of 539,880.25 euros and a debt of 231,156.5. The richest minister is Manuel Castells and the least, Yolanda Diaz. Iglesias will step down from the second vice-presidency next Tuesday to run in the regional elections in Madrid in May. He withdraws from the government with the following breakdown: in real estate declares 233,282.15 euros, in the bank he still has 111,098.10, 187,500 in insurance and pensions and 8,000 in other types of property.
The Minister of Higher Education or Universities, Manuel Castells (without political label), is the member of the government who declares the most assets, 3,943,219.78 euros. With a liability of 1,115,000. Only in real estate, the minister indicates nearly two million two hundred euros. Then, in bank accounts, it points to 324,280 euros, in life insurance one million four hundred and in “other assets and rights with economic content”, 21,878 euros.
Socialist Pedro Sanchez, president of the Spanish government declares real estate worth 180,794.88 euros. While deposits in accounts collect 73,159.87 euros. He also has 85,865 euros in life insurance and pension plans. Declares 27,609.21 euros of goods and rights with economic content. A total amount of 367,427 euros and a liability 161,329.35.
For her part, the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz (PCE, Spanish Communist Party), who will assume the third vice-presidency of the government next week from the departure of Iglesias, declared real estate for 39,837,215 euros, bank deposits , 7,340.48 and goods and rights of an economic nature, 3,374.75. Or 50,552,445. It also indicates a debt of 25,324.49 euros.
The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero (Podemos), declared 335,049 euros of real estate, 107,420 euros of checking or savings accounts and life and provident insurance represent 187,000 euros. Her debt also reached 231,156 euros, the mortgage she shares with Vice-President Iglesias who is also her husband. The couple own a villa of around 615,000 euros, of 268 m2, a living room of 40 m2, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a guest house, all on a plot of over 2,000 m2 in the municipality of Galapagar. in the Sierra de Guadarrama in Madrid in a naturally wooded environment.
Since the leader of Podemos and his partner bought this villa in Galapagar in 2018, it has become the most famous house in Spain. The story begins with a tweet by Pablo Iglesias in 2012. «Would you like to entrust the country’s economic policy to those who spend € 600,000 on a luxury penthouse? “. This sentence is murderous, referring to a house bought by the then Minister of the Economy, Luis de Guindos. Today, a “moula nouba” the boomerang of his words is turned against him. We have to believe that the ghost of Galapagar will never stop haunting these two leaders of Podemos.
But there is more, the mortgage. The couple contracted a debt of 540,000 euros, at a fixed rate, with a term of 30 years and an interest of 0.5%. According to Bolsamanía , the best mortgage in Spain offered, at the time when the leaders of Podemos contracted the debt, an interest of 1.5%.
«The Podemos code of ethics is not a formality, it is the commitment to live like ordinary people in order to be able to represent them in institutions and that means giving up privileges, such as excess salaryPablo Iglesias still tweeted at the time.
As George Orwell would have written, “ all animals are equal but some are more equal than others ».
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