The golden visa of Puigdemont and Broncano

If you file your tax return this year and you have to pay, you don't need to wonder why.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
12 April 2024 Friday 16:41
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The golden visa of Puigdemont and Broncano

If you file your tax return this year and you have to pay, you don't need to wonder why. We already told you. It will contribute to defraying the Messi salary with which RTVE will present David Broncano for signing him for two seasons for the football figure of 28 million euros. Laugh at what Kylian Mbappé could earn if he joined Real Madrid. It turns out that the presenter of La Resistencia is going to try to take the throne from Pablo Motos' El Hormiguero on La1. Is that the function of public television? Is that the example you should give to ordinary Spaniards who struggle with increases in shopping baskets or interest rates? Should so many euros of public money be invested in that? Are we not facing the greatest nonsense perpetrated in a public media?

President Pedro Sánchez, established as the Florentino Pérez of Spanish politics, is betting on a galactic signing for our public television, whose politicization is now going to be disguised as humor to counteract the attacks that come to him, with laughter, from the private stations that They are not related. 28 million euros! And he doesn't even worry, because, among other things, he is embarking on the wet dream of trying to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize if he gets the Palestinian State recognized internationally. Surely, when he looks in the mirror, he sees himself as the Spanish Barack Obama. The former president of the United States achieved this award despite spending his two full terms as president without a single day without war. That is, he fought each and every day and night of his rule. Without a single moment of peace. Almost nothing.

The same week that RTVE announces the super millionaire signing of Broncano (next to this, the megaspending on salaries of our TV3 seems like a joke), Pedro Sánchez informs us Spaniards that he is eliminating the golden visa that allowed the citizens to reside in Spain. foreigners (rich, not poor) who invested a fortune in housing. Chinese and Russian millionaires have mainly benefited. It was a measure that the Government of Mariano Rajoy implemented in 2013. But, for example, at a time when the large increase in interest rates is suffocating many Spanish families (many more than those benefiting from the golden visa), at The Sanchista government does not think of reinstating tax relief on mortgages. It was also a measure by Rajoy, who eliminated the housing deduction also in 2013. It is not that Sánchez dreams of the Nobel Prize in Economics, it is clear, it is cooler (from a social point of view) if they grant you the peace.

For now, the president has added Norway to his cause to recognize the Palestinian State, although the Scandinavians have not wanted to commit to a calendar. Perhaps it would be faster if he went to New York to do a door-to-door campaign with all the countries represented at the UN headquarters. In any case, we suppose that someone must have told Sánchez that the Nobel is awarded by the Swedes and not the Norwegians, even though they are neighbors... In case the pilot of the Falcon (Spanish Air Force One) took the wrong course and landed in Oslo when, in reality, they wanted to go to Stockholm. It would be the high!

Nothing can eclipse the figure of our president, even the last total eclipse of the Sun has been concentrated this week in North America so that nothing could overshadow him, not even the fights (hence the Broncano signing?) that have started another once again in the last control session, where tension reigned again (what a great word!). But, while Sánchez plays at being Obama, the world continues giving us baths of reality, as in the Gaza War, where even the prompter is dying, whether military, civilian, adult, child, doctor, journalist or volunteer, like the seven victims from the NGO World Central Kitchen by Spanish chef José Andrés.

And, in this context, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the EU, Josep Borrell, continues to put on the disguise of the boogeyman, insisting that we must invest more and more in military equipment because "war is on the horizon ". Nobody has yet explained to him that any normal person prefers to go to the beach rather than the trenches and that, for that to happen, perhaps it is better to invest in improving the protection of the coastline against the effects of climate change than to spend more money on bombs, little tanks and drones.

The important thing for our leaders is to instill fear. And anger. Taking into account that we are in another electoral cycle, these are two ingredients that will accompany us even more accentuated at least until after the European elections. In Catalonia, it seems that Carles Puigdemont has decided to make use of the wild card of the golden visa (the Amnesty) and assures that he will return to Catalonia no matter what for the investiture debate after the parliamentary elections on May 12. Whether he wins or loses, whether he is the presidential candidate or not, the leader of Junts per Catalunya plans to be in the Catalan Chamber that day. "I will return", he has stated in the style of General Douglas MacArthur when he had to abandon the Philippine Islands before the Japanese invasion in World War II. If that happens (or when it happens), the pim pam pum between PSOE, PP and other parties will intensify. How will it affect the alliances that support the Government of Pedro Sánchez?... It seems that it is increasingly clear that this term of office may be even shorter than expected. Of course, please, if our president has two news programs left, at least Broncano presents them to amortize the 28 million of his signing a little more.