The state picked up almost 17 million euros (16,815,126) from April 2020 to April 2022 for the fight against covid-19. Total, 3,899 donors – individuals and private subjects – who in these two years would have contributed to finance the expenses caused by the health crisis of the coronavirus. This can be seen from the document to which he had access THE TARGETfacilitated by Transparency portal.
In particular, information is provided on the covid donations received during 2020, 2021 and 2022 on the bank account opened at the Bank of Spain owned by the General Secretariat of the Treasury and International Lending with IBAN ES17 9000 0001 2002 5001 234. In the case of the data referring to the 2022 financial year, these are income realized prior to the cancellation of said bank account which took place in April 2022. However, the Ministry of the Economy it doesn’t specify where the money went beyond “fighting the pandemic.”
On 1 April 2020, the Government enabled a Treasury account at the Bank of Spain receive donations to “help finance the expenses caused by the health crisis”. This is reflected in the article 47 of the d Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, of 31 Marchwith which urgent complementary measures are taken in the social and economic fields to deal with the covid-19.
Therefore, in the document it can be seen how 97.95% of these collections occurred in 2020, when 3,844 people donated 16,471,401 euros; in 2021 the amount of donations low surprisingly only 42, for a value of 342,889.81 euros; and from January to April 2022, when this account was permanently closed, Only 13 people wanted to help the government financially in the fight against covid. The collection this year was 836 euros.
Various donations of two and three million euros
The mode, i.e. the most frequent value, is 100 euros: 884 people donated this amount to the state coffers; The income of 500 and 1,000 euros is also repeated numerous times, and much higher values can be seen as different from 5,000, 17,000, 20,000, 30,000 and 50,000 euros. There is also a donation of half a million euros and another of one million. However, four generous entrances catch the eye: two of two million euros yes another two out of three million. All carried out during the first year of the pandemic. However, the document provided by the Ministry of Economic Affairs a THE TARGET It does not indicate where these splendid sums come from, whether they are donations from individuals or individuals, or what they were used for, whether to buy masks, gloves, vaccines, gowns or to hire staff, among others.
In 2021 there is also a generous income of almost 300,000 euros. In 2022 the maximum amount is 500 euros. On average the Spaniards who wanted to contribute to the fight against the pandemic They donated 4,312 euros to the Spanish government for expenses resulting from the health crisis caused by covid-19.
However, other administrations as well created in 2020, when European recovery funds did not existaccount to receive donations from citizens, such as the Carlos III Health Institute – a public research center that has played a key role in helping to monitor infections –, the Generalitat of Catalonia or the Community of Madrid. The latter has even managed to raise more funds than the central government itself. As reported Maldita.esfrom March 2020 to August 2021, the regional government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso received 19,463,219. 79% of the more than 19 million came from private entities, Banco Santander is the largest donor who contributed four million euros. Endesa, the Real Madrid Foundation, Eulen o Philip Morris They’re also among the big donors, the outlet points out.
For its part, the Generalitat de Catalunya has collected almost three million euros in its donation bank account (2,723,229 euros), 68% came from registered inheritances; and, for its part, the Public Research Center has collected 1,181,597 euros.
“Exclusive financing for covid-19 expenses”
Although as we commented on the document you accessed THE TARGET through the Transparency Portal does not specify where the money went, in the Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, of 31 Marchwith which urgent complementary measures are taken in the socio-economic field to deal with the covid-19, provides for the regulation of these donations and establishes that “the sums obtained by these means will be detrimental to the exclusive financing of expenses resulting from the health crisis caused by the covid-19″ and can be used “to meet expenses such as equipment and health infrastructure, materials, supplies, personnel recruitment, research and anything else that can help strengthen response capacities” to the crisis deriving from the coronavirus.
Furthermore, the text establishes that donations of equipment and supplies are considered as movable property They will be managed by the Ministry of Health. However, donations from property They will be accepted by the Ministry of Finance “with real estate that can be used directly for the fight against covid-19 or disposed of and apply the product obtained for this purpose”.
