Can you imagine having another €50 billion available each year for public and social services? It's an amount that exceeds the combined annual budget of the Generalitat (Catalan government), including the entire public sector, which manages more than €40 billion. And it's an astronomical amount, emerging from studies that attempt to quantify the cost of corruption cases such as that of Koldo García, former minister José Luis Ábalos, and the former number three of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Santos Cerdán. According to Transparency International, a non-governmental organization specializing in the subject, Spain last year scored 56 out of 100 on the corruption perception index, which analyzes 180 countries (0 being very clean and 100 being very corrupt), that is, close to the red light and far from the best-performing countries (88) or Singapore (84).

The €6.6m that Fèlix Millet and Jordi Montull diverted from the Palau de la Música to Convergència (CDC) will not be returned to the institution and will be part of the sum of assets to be distributed among the political party's creditors, which continues its liquidation process in a commercial court of Barcelona. Before the beginning of this contest, Barcelona's High Court found the party guilty of illegally financing itself through commissions from construction company Ferrovial, which were disguised as donations to the Palau. The court ordered that this money be returned to the cultural institution and opened proceedings to determine whether PDECat or JxCat could be considered heirs of defunct parties and the conviction. Now the court has paralysed this procedure, a decision that implies stopping pursuing the two parties over the sentence of the Palau case.