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INCOME AND ASSETS OF THE PRESIDENT
Rajoy claimed three salaries in 2004 and 2005 and became a big raise in crisis
Executive President publishes his income, but only since leaving the Aznar government
The prime minister went to collect 240,000 euros in opposition to some 75,000 in Government
The data do not clarify anything about the alleged payments of papers Barcenas
The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, on February 2, when he pledged to publish their income, in a televised address to the dome of the PP. / ULY MARTIN
The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has finally decided to make public their salaries and a detailed summary of his tax returns, but only since 2003, the year he left the government of José María Aznar, to take over the PP, first as general secretary and election candidate and then as president, and in 2004. Sources say the La Moncloa president has released 10 years of his income, which is twice what is usually discussed in an audit, and consider that in any year had to cut. Also, remember that if included part of the stage in the Executive Rajoy Aznar, because it is the year 2003.
In the data submitted, you can check the huge difference between a leader of the PP when in opposition or when it reaches the government.Rajoy was in government as vice president until September 2003. That year claimed 120,000 euros, that if you take away the salary of the PP in those last months of the year, 40,000 euros, remains at 80,000.However, since leaving the Executive, in the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, the then opposition leader had total revenues were around 240,000 euros, which he himself said in 2008 represented about 8,000 euros a month, 3,000 and 5,000 of the Congress party. Therefore, Rajoy went to collect 240,000 euros in opposition to some 75,000 euros as president in 2012. This difference between the government and the opposition is because it is completely forbidden to charge an extra politicians of his party when in the Executive. But in opposition, no. And Rajoy charged that money every year in opposition to reach 240,000 euros.
So it would be also relevant to know Rajoy's statements before 2003. If the president had declared any additional charge of Minister or Secretary of State, the Treasury would be regular, but illegal under the law of the then Government. These data provided by Rajoy not clarify anything, as expected, on the alleged payments to then-Deputy Secretary of the PP from 1999 contained in the papers of Luis Barcenas,the PP extesorero. Barcenas said Rajoy payments since 1999 of about 25,000 euros a year. Rajoy has flatly denied that he ever received or given black money, although the PP does not even begin to analyze the papers and items registered there have proven themselves as real, as they have been confirmed by those who received these amounts . Most of them have admitted that the cash received.
According to the Government Act in force at that time, which is maintained and hardens in the current minister's salary, or vice president, the positions he has held until now Rajoy, is virtually incompatible with everything. So it was not legal to charge the government salary plus a bonus party. In the PP, is normal when in the opposition-salary and salary or bonus Congress party, much higher even if the dome to what they received as members. However, the Government is not legal. So much Rajoy as the secretary general of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, who collected the highest salaries of PP when they were in opposition, claim that they are outstanding as party have reached the offices of Prime Minister and Castilla-La Mancha, respectively.
Three salaries in 2004 and 2005 and dramatic rise in crisis
The president took some time to three different salaries up to € 240,000 on average those years in opposition. It was in 2004, when Rajoy had already left the government, but continued to collect 62,000 euros a year in pension of former minister. In addition, he received 38,000 euros on her as deputy for Madrid and 136,000 euros from PP to reach those 240,000 euros, much more money than they received and stated when he was in government.
In 2005, Rajoy was entitled to charge only a few months that pension of former minister, left the government in September 2003 and is only entitled to two years, but it seems that exhausted that possibility.Claimed 48,000 euros as a pension and 39,000 as deputy again. The PP, then turned up the salary to compensate for that loss apparently exhausted their compensation to former Minister, so that year gave 144,000 euros, reaching a total of 230,000, slightly less than in 2004.
In 2006, again, the PP increased salary, but not enough to offset the loss of former minister's pension, so lowered the total admitted to the 187,000.
In 2007, the year the crisis began to be felt, the PP's salary rise is even more dramatic, reaching 157,000 euros, which added to what the president receives congressional reach 200,000.
In 2008, already in crisis as some have Rajoy spoke in speeches of the need to moderate wages, again there was a dramatic increase in the salary of the PP, from 157,000 to almost 186,000. The Congressional salary increases slightly and the sum stays at 229,000. It is this year, 2008, which apparently, according to papers Barcenas, conclude the alleged payments to Rajoy and other leaders of the PP of 25,000 euros yearly net. The official salary increase that year Rajoy is 29,000 euros gross.
In 2009, already in crisis, and after losing his second election, Rajoy receives a new deposit of salary increase of PP, from 186,000 to 196,000. In that year the need for wage restraint was one of the cornerstones of his speech and the employer. That year Rajoy claimed 240,000 euros in total.
In 2010, for the first time, Rajoy low salary in the PP. Spend from 196,000 to 181,000. It also lowers the salary of Congress, as well as decided that year to support the PP PSOE. So the gross final salary goes from 240,000 to 222,000.
However in 2011, again as with the crisis in full swing, Rajoy pushes the salary of PP, 181,000 to 200,000. Lower the new Congress, but in the end the president returns to rub those 240,000 euros in 2009. In the year 2011 there is a really different from the others. In addition to his salary, that year Treasury Rajoy told another 163,000 euros for "performance of economic activities". Apart from its equity securities and other possessions, Rajoy that year published a memoir with Metro Publisher.
Discrepancies between declared Treasury and Congress
In the data provided by Rajoy, one stands out in particular: the wide gap that exists between what he claims to have earned in 2010 as salary of PP, 181,000 euros, and told Congress that have earned on this account, 98,225 euros. It is the only year in which to do this comparison because it is the only one that appears on the website of the Congress of all deputies, as only mandatory since 2011 and has not yet recorded this past year, much less the 2012 . A spokesman for the president has justified this discrepancy in the amount recorded in the Congress is in net and Finance, raw.
The Government and the PP wants to give much importance to this policy unprecedented in Spanish politics, though common in other countries, which is for the president to meet your tax information. Debate is common in many countries. 's own U.S. primary campaign was dominated by the need to Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, he made the data public already suspected, and confirmed that he had paid minimal taxes Being a billionaire businessman who used clever tax to pay less tax on their businesses. Romney released partial data to show that he paid about 14% tax, which is much lower than the average citizen of the United States and Barack Obama's own.
Until Rajoy has decided to make public their assets only had the system agreed with the PP. He started the Zapatero government, which released all income and assets of the ministers, and followed the Congress.
That amount contained in the House and received by Rajoy, € 100,000, is recorded in the form of "allowances and expenses of representation." Actually, it's a trick. Wage is a pure and simple, which paid the PP Rajoy when he was leader of the opposition , which added to their normal salary of deputy, so the president entered about 8,000 euros a month until he came to La Moncloa, as reported by the PP. The trick is to call "costs representation "to what is a salary. was done because if it could not be legally inconsistent with congressional salary, which requires full-time, or at least would have to ask permission. Nevertheless, according to the PP, though it is called expenses, these are listed on the personal income tax revenues as a normal salary-representation expenses and allowances are generally exempt because it is assumed that one is justified as money spent. This is only done to avoid potential problems in the Congress. A trick that the particular test and relatively opaque formula that are managed so far the salaries and bonuses of the parties. Indeed with the summary of accounting that has issued the PP can not know or how much is paid to your leaders, or how many employees it has, or how the money is actually spent, even though, as acknowledged by the popular, 95% income derived from public subsidies.
After the first impact after publication of papers Barcenas in the country, the president discussed a lot with their immediate environment how to address the scandal. The idea of publishing all tax returns, but not really directly related papers would Barcenas-yes the detailed accounts for the PP during those years, that refuse to popular public-was from the outset above table.
At first, Rajoy disappeared from public view for 48 hours, he let Cospedal pains which attend the press and burned, and finally appeared but through a television screen, without the reporters could ask. Not yet answered any question in Spain, and has not even been control sessions in Congress since the publication of the papers. Yes, he has been forced to answer several questions in Berlin and Brussels, where he could not avoid dealing with the press. There elusive shown even tired of it, and at all times has avoided criticizing Barcenas, as demanded by some of the PP. Several leaders have done so, some have even apologized for having a massive fraudster in charge of their finances, but Rajoy has not said a bad word about Barcenas, or time has given the order to sue the PP. Never, in the four years since the outbreak of the Gürtel case, Rajoy has heard a bad word from their extesorero, which the PP cared for long, even after stepping down, paying the lawyer, leaving his former official car use allowing his former secretary continue working for him from the streets of Genoa or letting go often to headquarters, where he was also a special room, Andalusia, reserved for their documents.
Now the PP does seem to get away from Barcenas, especially its secretary general, Maria Dolores de Cospedal, but Rajoy still criticize even what is already proven and acknowledged by the extesorero, ie having a Swiss bank account that reached have 22 million euros. Many fear the Barcenas PP and Rajoy himself had to deny in 2009 that he was blackmailing her extesorero: "If I proved something in my political life is that I do not move for blackmail. To me Luis Barcenas not blackmailed me, "he said in July 2009 in Malaga, one of the few occasions when he spoke publicly this name brings to the PP head four years ago.
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Rajoy avoids criticizing Barcenas and claims that he has already said all the scandal
The president does not pronounce the name or not ask forgiveness for his behavior extesorero
Mariano Rajoy does not want to talk now Luis Barcenas , the manager who came to PP party treasurer at the controversial congress of Valencia in 2008, and not even allowed to say his name. When asked Friday, the end of the EU, if it endorsed the statements of some leaders of his party, as the deputy spokesman of the Popular Party in Congress, Rafael Merino, who apologized for having kept for years as treasurer someone who had millions in Swiss accounts and has defrauded the Treasury, the PP President reluctantly replied: "All I had to say what I said in an intervention that you could follow [ last week ], I will not be turning over that case, because otherwise we would end up not ever. "
Even one of his ministers, Industry, José Manuel Soria , admitted on Thursday night that Barcenas TVE had done much damage to the PP and that something had gone wrong in the game by not observe enrichment.
Rajoy has given no press conference in Spain since COUNTRY revealed the alleged secret accounts extesorero PP , so he pursues the theme in their trips abroad: in Berlin on Monday, with Angela Merkel , and the Friday Brussels after the EU summit , where you can not avoid appearing in public. On Saturday spoke of the scandal to the leadership of his party, in a written statement that journalists had to go on television and without the possibility of questions. This Friday has missed the opportunity to criticize the conduct of the treasurer to be enriched in the nearly 20 years he handled the party's finances. Neither apologized to the public.
Rajoy was tired of it. And not just by a sleepless night spent negotiating the EU budget for the next seven years but because, as he said, the issue "is not pleasant for anyone." Despite the importance that European funds are to Spain, half of the questions were related to cases ofcorruption . You spoke of the recent scandals with their European counterparts?, Asked. "We have not talked about it," he said. Although recognized immediately afterwards is fully aware of the concerns of Spanish society by corruption, reflected in the CIS surveys, and called for "continuously make efforts to avoid this kind of behavior."
He said that "all ideas are welcome" and recalled that the Government has submitted to Congress the law on transparency and good governance, but he was opposed to "improvise" legal changes, such as the reform of the electoral law to allow open lists that have asked one of his barons, and recalled that the corrupt are characterized precisely by violating the law. "Laws may be better, but the important thing is that the institutions work and running the judiciary, as you can see," he added in reference to the investigation of judges and prosecutors.
No quote, Rajoy said the former president of the Community of Madrid,Esperanza Aguirre , who at an internal meeting of his party's regional leadership criticized the Health Minister Ana Mato , and the secretary general of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal. Faced with the resignation of Mato suggested by Aguirre, Rajoy reiterated his confidence in the minister and praised his work in Health.
Was even tighter defense of Cospedal , whom the former president criticized Madrid mismanagement of the crisis caused by Barcenas papers. "The party general secretary is a woman of great courage and great determination, he is working hard and has my full support as president of the PP and, if possible, as prime minister," he said.
Rajoy was tired of it, but had to come to the defense of two of his top partner and talk of corruption, although its obligation in Brussels was devoted to something else : the future of the EU.
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Mariano Rajoy Tax Returns: Spain's PM Publishes Financial Documents Amid Corruption Allegations
02/09/13 10:52 AM ET EST 
MADRID -- Spain's prime minister has published a summary of his income and tax returns in a bid to defuse a corruption scandal engulfing his government after the publication of media allegations that he and senior members of his political party received and distributed under-the-table payments.
The accounts appeared Saturday on Mariano Rajoy's official website and indicate he took a wage cut from (EURO)240,000 ($320,780) while in opposition to (EURO)75,000 ($100,240) as prime minister.
The figures however only go back to 2003, the year Rajoy took over the Popular Party as election candidate.
The scandal emerged after leading newspaper El Pais published a report on Jan. 31 about ledgers it said were from party treasurer Luis Barcenas, stretching back nearly 20 years, showing alleged cash payments to leading party members including Rajoy.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Spain PM publishes tax returns amid corruption scandal
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy made public his tax returns as he seeks to quell a corruption scandal that has gripped Spaniards and pushed up the country's borrowing costs.
The corruption allegations, centred on Luis Barcenas, a former treasurer at the ruling People's Party (PP), have spooked investors just when Spain appeared to be emerging from the worst of the euro zone debt crisis.
Former PP treasurer Barcenas has described as fake handwritten ledger entries published on Jan. 31 by El Pais newspaper purporting to show payments made to PP leaders, including Rajoy, from construction firm kickbacks.
The tax authority documents, posted on the government's website, showed Rajoy's income and tax payments from 2004 to 2012. He earned up to 147,620 euros ($197,500) per year over the period plus income from investments. He paid 870,292 euros in tax over the eight-year period, the documents showed.
