Puigdemont never tires of asking for money: Now he passes the dish for the campaign

Puigdemont, whose escape is associated with recurring requests for money to maintain the Waterloo mansion and the political structure in Belgium, brings out the dish again. Input claim to those who are on the lists for the next regional elections, 150 candidates, between 3,000 and 6,000 euros non-refundable, a donation to cover part of the campaign.-

The party hopes to obtain through this route around 700,000 euros. Then it has the contributions of those who already hold public office, such as Puigdemont, the deputies in the Parliament and in Congress who left PDeCAT, as well as mayors and councilors who also broke the card of the first post-convergent party. However, the most absolute opacity weighs on these games.

The third revenue stream that JxCat has undertaken is the bell to ask for credits from the militants (around 5,000 people) of between 1,500 and 3,000 euros and to return within a year, when the party already has access to the electoral subsidies for the deputies that it hopes to obtain in this electoral contest. Under the plan, the party will pay the “lenders” an interest of 1.519%.

The party’s propaganda points out that “it is easier for them to lend us money temporarily than to seek large donations.” In addition, it alleges that it thus breaks with the “old inertias” of CiU in relation to financial entities.

The cost of lawyers

The Puigdemont formation also has now had to take over the defenses of four of the imprisoned coup plotters who were previously in the PDeCAT and went to Junts. These are the cases of the former councilors Quim Forn, Jordi Turull and Josep Rull and the former president of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and now the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Sànchez.

PDeCAT refused to continue paying the fees of Turull, Rull and Forn’s lawyers when they left the party to follow Puigdemont. According to the accounts of the referred PDeCAT, the total amount of the defenses of these three prisoners has been 689,437 euros, of which 608,933 have been paid. So, the party recognizes a debt of 80,504 euros with the offices of lawyers Jordi Pina and Javier Melero.

The publication of these accounts has caused a certain surprise in the independentista world, since it was believed that the cost of the defenses and of the bonds was assumed by the Solidarity Fund, another collection tool of separatism along with Council for the Republic.

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