This is how much Puigdemont’s wife earns as a presenter

Carles Puigdemont has been making headlines in recent days for his return to Spain after seven years in Belgium. In the midst of Salvador Illa’s investiture, the former president of the Generalitat arrived in Barcelona, ​​burst into the welcome ceremony on the Lluis Companys promenade, and managed to escape back to Waterloo. A comeback worthy of a film that has also caused talk of his inner circle, which includes his wife, Marcela Topor.

Of Romanian nationality, Topor and her two daughters maintain the family residence on the outskirts of Girona, despite the politician being out of the country. In fact, despite studying English philology at the University and training as an actress – she met Puigdemont on a trip to Girona with a theatre company -, He works as a journalist on Catalan television.

Specifically, Topor works in the Barcelona Local Television Network, where he presents The WeeklyMaga program that is broadcast on the Xarxa Audiovisual Local (XAL) and in which interviews are conducted in English with professionals from different fields such as music and literature. The space is presented as a talk show to promote English through topics such as traditions, nature, travel, sports, books, solidarity and “a lot of people with unique stories.”

Marcela hosts this programme every Saturday at 3pm and lasts less than an hour. She is also behind the direction of the magazine, together with David de Dios. For this position he earns 6,000 a month.as highlighted BluperIn this way, the Barcelona Provincial Council has paid Puigdemont’s wife more than 400,000 euros through the XAL since her signing in 2018.

It must be said that the program has generated controversy in recent years due to its high production costs and poor audience figures.. As explained Global ChronicleXAL stopped publishing the programme’s contracting data on its transparency portal in 2022. However, it knows that the Barcelona Provincial Council, on which the channel depends, allocated 260,000 euros for the 2021-22 season, with an audience that barely exceeds 12,000 viewers.

Puigdemont and Topor: 20 years married

Marcela Topor has been Carles Puigdemont’s life partner for more than two decades. The pro-independence politician fell in love with the Romanian, who at that time had travelled from Bucharest to perform in Spain, as we have previously reported.

Puigdemont, 61, and Topor, 47, were married in an Orthodox ceremony. They have two daughters, Maria and Magali.The family owns a luxurious 250-square-metre house in Villa Golf, in the town of Sant Julià de Ramis. It has a garden and three floors and the couple bought it in 2003.

Topor’s expensive work: long live the magic

Interestingly, Topor is credited with being fond of magic and mysticism since she was little.“She’s a kind of magician,” close friends told her in The reason. They claim that she predicts the future based on nature and that, in addition, her husband shares her beliefs. Schoolmates also revealed that she liked to dress up as a necromancer and read magic books. It should also be remembered that the two’s honeymoon took place in the lands of Transylvania, birthplace of the mythical Count Dracula.