Junts pays debts of the extinct Convergència for one million euros

Junts per Catalunya spent the last Catalan electoral campaign, a year ago, denying any link with the extinct Convergència and its corruption cases.

But the accounts of the groups of the Parliament of the last legislature, which can be consulted on the transparency website of the Chamber, show that the group of Carles Puigdemont's formation paid one million euros to the CDC —by virtue of the coalition of the December 2017 elections—and also faced a policy, for another million, that the formation founded by Jordi Pujol and now in pre-bankruptcy could not pay.

Junts has existed as a party since July 2020, but for electoral purposes, in the last legislature, it was a coalition between the CDC and its heir, the Democratic Party (PDeCAT).

For the 2017 elections, called by the Government after the application of article 155, the neo-convergent leadership gave Puigdemont, who had already fled to Brussels, carte blanche to draw up the lists as he pleased.

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marginalized the cadres of what was then his party, but he did use the electoral rights that then fell to Convergència.

The PDeCAT, founded in 2016, had not attended a Catalan election.

The law allows parties to use subsidies from parliaments to finance themselves.

Junts received between 2018 and 2020 a total of 12 million euros from the Catalan Chamber and allocated more than 60% to nurturing its supporters.

The PDeCAT obtained 6.5 million and Convergència, 1.09 million.

In the 2020 financial year, according to the balance that the group delivers to the Parliament's management, the item dedicated to the PDeCAT is reduced by one million euros.

In the direction of Junts they explain that this money that is deducted is precisely the one that appears later, under the heading "CDC guarantee".

That guarantee, they delve into from the formation chaired by Puigdemont, corresponds to a guarantee policy that was signed "for the 21-D elections" and for which neither the PDeCAT nor the CDC have been held responsible.

In the Democratic Party, on the other hand, they deny that it is an electoral expense and insist that it was insurance that Convergència had had “for years”.

The formation founded by Jordi Pujol presented a creditor contest in June 2020 and alleges debts of six million euros, without counting the patrimonial responsibilities that may derive from pending court cases.

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