Sánchez and Contreras design a millionaire macrooperation to separate Oughourlian from the media in a hurry

The relationship between the president of the Government and the president of Hurry is not good, as seen in the Operation of purchase of Hispasat by Indra, where Joseph Oughourlian, who has 7.23%, voted against. Now, the founder of Amber Capital, maximum shareholder in a hurry, has again crossed the road in front of the operation promoted by Moncloa so that the company editor of the TO BE y The country Lance a new television network.

The French entrepreneur and financial, of Armenian origin opposed the project, which has made him the enemy to beat for government advisor José Miguel Contreras, a manager. The noise that will generate the start -up of the chain that are about to launch in a hurry and its pro -government partners, which some baptize (half seriously, half jokingly) as ‘The Seventh’, will stay in a children’s game In front of the ambitious macrooperation designed from Moncloa to remove Oughourlian from his presidential chair in favor of the director of Hurry Content and main ideologue of the media strategy of Sanchismo, José Miguel Contreras.

Sources close to the operation explain to this newspaper that the president of the Government’s president passes because a group of related entrepreneurs buy Oughourlian the 29.84% in a hurry to finish off the control of the company by the PSOE.

Government anger

Oughourlian, who has visible his anger with the government by voting against the purchase of Hispasat from Indra, could receive in exchange for its investment in hurry around 100 million euros instead of the 300 million it disbursed. Since the surroundings of La Moncloa they argue that these losses are in line with the devaluation of a hurry under its presidency, which started on February 23, 2021 with the action in 1.05 and in the last days he is around the 32 cents. The businessman of Armenian origin would compensate part of this ruinous business in Spain thanks to his packet of actions in Indra, which has been revalued by more than 50% in just over 2 and a half years (which would be equivalent to a surplus value of more than more than 65 million euros).

At the purchase of the Amber Capital Share Package in Puris. Chain ser y The country As the Global Alconaba firm led by Andrés Varela Entrecanal (fourth shareholder of the group with 7% of the shares), the president of Baleària Adolfo Utor (owner of 5.4% of the group) or the “ambulance” Diego Prieto (owner of the owner of the 3%). This purchase could be added that of the shareholding packages to the Polanco family (which through rucandio possesses 7.6%), to the Santander Bank (which has 4.1% and signals the investment of the founder’s family ), Business Control of Capital of the Mexican Magnate Carlos Slim (who owns 7% of the company and is an intimate friend of the anti -Chista Felipe González), the Aztec counselor Roberto Alcántara (who owns 5% of the capital), the Qatari investor Khalid Bin Thani Abdullah al-Thani (owner of 3.35%) or even vivendi. The French conglomerate tried in 2022 to go from 11.8% that it currently owns to 29.9% to distribute the hurry control with its partner in the Gallic country, Oughourlian, but the Moncloa blocked the operation because he thought possibly with good judgment that an eventual triumph of the PP in the general elections of 2023 was going to leave the SER and the country in the open (since it had been found in the hands of a vulture background and a Gallic group considered as close to ‘lepenismo’).

That brake cracked the relationship between Sánchez and Oughourlian, which for years was very well considered in Ferraz for its ability to horant Juan Luis Cebrián for years and to promote the return of the SER chain and the country to its editorial line near the center- Left (after a few years in which the indebted rush had softened his positions against the PP with the Santander bank in the machine room).

Vivendi has the key

Vivendi can be key again because Sanchismo wishes or breaks his harmony with Oughourlian, ceasing to support him in the Council, or sell the 11.80% they have in a hurry. The advertising agency Havas, belonging to Vivendi, has just renewed her contract with the telephone of Marc Murtra, now in the presidency of La Teleco and manages a portfolio of more than 20 million euros (some sources place her above 25 millions).

To move forward all these operations, the pro -government partners who want to take control of El País and the Being with José Miguel Contreras have a bank whose name so far has not transcended. As a previous step, he tries to channel his corporate and financial situation, and we have already pointed out, the next council of the company could resolve the segregation (and subsequent sale) of his American media business. Hurry has a relevant presence in Colombia (it has Caracol Radio and the W and control , Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Paraguay. The group drags a debt of more than 800 million euros that tarnishes its operational improvements and drags it to losses. Contreras tries to set up a television despite the ruinous management that starred in La Sexta, although he did not go badly after the sale to Atresmedia. Stop this new project will have Fran Llorente, currently already in a hurry.

Llorente was head of the newspapers under the governments of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. One of the star signings of the new chain could be Silvia Intxaurrondo, considered in conservative media media of Feijóo, although its very high salary in RTVE, Where he triumphs at one time, he can make this aspiration an unattainable dream. Maybe he remains tied to RTVE thanks to his high cache, unassumable for small channels. The company could rent a signal to operators such as Squirrel Media or Secuoya or trying to get the winner of the contest that the Moncloa cooks to distribute a TDT signal to an related media group. Hurry or the new editor company of El Páis and the Being could have between 25% and 30% of the new television, and the usual partners of the operation, with the rest.

The fixed costs are estimated to be agreed with the sources consulted between 20 and 30 million euros per year. The rent, if they do not give them the license that is supposed to go to them, can be placed at about 2 million euros per year, the cost of the signal is at about 5 million and the contents would range between 10 and 20 million, okay, okay With the figures that are considered. Television sources explain that their share could be around 1.5% and, in case of positive surprise, 3%. That is, if they achieve objectives as they would ‘tie’ with advertising income that would be around 25 million in the best case. It is true that the ‘suffered investors’ could see compensated the more than predictable losses with other types of operations favored from Moncloa.