Monólogo de Alsina: "Agencia Tributaria en crisis"

The host of Más de uno highlighted the delicate situation of the Spanish Treasury regarding the jewelry of the former Prime Minister and the mass resignation of its top management, which coincided with the investigation against SEPI (the State Holding Company for Industrial Participations). #psoe #spain #pedrosánchez https://www.ondacero.es/programas/mas... Let me tell you a story, a very short one, you'll see. The disciple said: "Master, I must have a serious illness because every part of my body I touch with my index finger hurts." The teacher replied: "It's your index finger that hurts. Go and don't touch it anymore." End of story. The index finger is for pointing. For anointing heirs. For choosing subordinates. For giving instructions to those you've placed there to do your bidding. García Page has taken attendance and found that the PSOE has more than 120 people under investigation in court for various corruption cases. Does the party feel pain from every part that its index finger touches, or is it the supreme finger, the master finger, that decides everything in the party? The finger that, out of 180,000 members, chose Ábalos. The finger that chose Cerdán, the famous novelist. The finger that rehabilitated Zapatero as a campaigner. Five displays of support Pedro Sánchez has already spoken publicly five times about the former Prime Minister and his jewelry. He has therefore spoken five times more than the former president, who, forty-four days after the search of his office and despite having said in a video that he would speak to the press, has still not explained—neither to the public, nor to his party, nor to the judge—how he obtained the jewelry, in what capacity, and when he had it appraised to determine its value and calculate the total of his assets. Forty-four days in which unofficial spokespeople relayed his messages to the talk shows, and in which the former president never spoke publicly about the jewelry or its value. Sánchez did. Sánchez spoke to proclaim his support for Zapatero (May 20), to reiterate it (May 27), to express his confidence in his innocence (June 18), to maintain that confidence (June 24), and to assure everyone that the former president would provide the appropriate explanations (June 27): he clarified neither when he would give them nor what Sánchez considered appropriate. In none of his five statements did the president mention paying taxes. He floated the idea that the jewelry might be gifts from 2007—the Abdalá theory—and went on about how all presidents receive gifts and that even he doesn't know what he gets on trips abroad (just talk), but he dodged the issue, which is neither a suspicion nor speculation: the former president's jewelry collection has been valued by the court at 1.3 million euros, and Zapatero has declared, first in the Senate and then on this program, that his net worth does not reach the minimum threshold for filing a tax return, which is 700,000 euros net. Every story is its own, and every government agency has its own, but the fact that the head of the Tax Agency, the resignation of two other high-ranking officials from this agency, and the indictment of the president of SEPI (also under the Ministry of Finance), plus five other officials from the state-owned holding company, all coincided in the same week, along with the previous indictment of former SEPI president Vicente Fernández, a close friend of Leire and hired by Antxón Servinabar Alonso, a business partner of the novelist Cerdán, inevitably leads to the impression that the Ministry of Finance is suffering from a serious case of corruption. Seeing SEPI transformed into an agency for granting favors to Leire's clients and Cerdán's associates does little to inspire confidence that the guiding principle in the management of public companies is the interest of the taxpayers who fund them. Let's not forget that Leire was placed in two management positions in public companies. She was the Director of Institutional Relations at Correos (the Spanish postal service), no small feat. She, with her proven experience in serving institutions and her knack for cultivating relationships. Spain owes María Jesús Montero a ministry riddled with conflicting interests. Spain is the Minister of Finance, Arcadi España. And Spain is Spain, the country wondering if the illness is serious, because every institution touched is painful, or if the disease lies with the supreme finger that decides everything here.