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Tuesday December 23, 2014 11:54 a.m.
Sonia Castedo, who today turns 44, announced his resignation through the social network Facebook, which stressed that “never” done “anything dishonest “DPA reported.
The hitherto mayor of Alicante is charged for alleged influence peddling, bribery and revealing secrets on two related development plans projected in this city of 330,000 cases at the Valencia.
In recent months, Castedo was pressured to leave office by the heads of the Popular Party (PP) in the region, they do not want people related to corruption in their lists ahead the municipal elections of May 2015.
Corruption is a major concern of the main Spanish political parties at the gates of an election year in which general elections were also held in November.
In recent months, broke several cases in the country where they were detained members and former leaders of groups like the PP or the most important of the opposition Socialist Party.
A of the most recent resignations was that of the Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato, who resigned in November after the judge who has researched the “Gürtel case”, one of the biggest corruption schemes discovered in Spain, the accused of having profited from the illegal business of her husband.
A month earlier, Rajoy had asked first apologize to the Spanish for appointing charges for some people who were not “worthy” of it as he said.
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