The controversial former banker is the protagonist of the premiere of the new season of the program La Sexta, which starts this Sunday
He was the man of fashion in the nascent democratic Spain of the 1980s, who saw Mario Conde’s professional success as an example to emulate. At less than 40 years old, he was already in charge of one of the most important banks in the country. Everyone wanted a picture with him. His character also copied the covers of gossip magazines of the time. But his lightning career was cut short when the government of Felipe González intervened in Banesto and discovered an economic gap of more than 3,600 million euros.
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his first sentence, for which he was sentenced to six years in prison, of which he served a year and a half, for embezzlement and forgery of a commercial document in the ‘Banesto case’, Mario Conde makes another televised appearance in the premiere of the new season of ‘Salvados’, which returns tomorrow at 9:30 pm on La Sexta. The program team, led by journalist and reporter Fernando González “Gonzo”, travels to the Sevillian estate of Los Carrizos, one of the few properties to have avoided post-trial expropriation, where the lawyer will evaluate the rise and fall after the glorious past years. .
Conde reappears on the small screen and wants to talk. In the advance of the first installment, he assures that a banker has more power than the prime minister and also tells how Banesto financed political parties “irregularly”, giving details and naming his own names. However, an important character stands out: the emeritus.
The businessman reveals in ‘Salvados’ his close relationship with the person who was head of state for more than four decades. According to the version he confesses to the journalist “Gonzo”, there was so much trust between King Juan Carlos and him that he became the monarch’s personal banker. He admits that he used his power to prevent the publication of information about the private life of the emeritus and his lovers, but also that he recommended that a friend of his be appointed head of the Royal House. “It was too much power in the hands of a forty-year-old boy. I’ve never been a saint,” Conde recalls during one of the moments of the program.
In the coming weeks, ‘Salvados’ will continue to combine current political issues with other interviews and reports on social issues, also opening up citizens’ complaints. The space, which started in 2008 with Jordi Évole with a format closer to humor, has an average audience share of 7.4% and just over 1.3 million viewers, and will be a fundamental pillar on the grid of La Sixth. His most-watched program of the previous season was precisely the last chapter, when ‘Gonzo’ interviewed the second vice president and minister of labor, Yolanda Díaz, in front of 9% of the audience and 1.4 million followers.
During the new chapters, the presenter will take to the streets to give a voice to the citizens most affected by the price increases, he will travel to Qatar and Galicia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the sinking of the “Prestige”. commemorate.
Source: La Verdad
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