MADRID (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the president of Extremadura, Jose Antonio Monagas, for a few trips that the Popular Party politician Canary performed under the Senate
The complaint was filed in November of the year passed by the Association for Justice XXI Century, considering that travel could constitute a crime of misappropriation of public funds.
However, the high court said in a car that the facts did not constitute” criminal act one “, as the parliamentary group in the Senate had confirmed that Monago had assigned work support Andalusia and the Canary Islands, which had to travel to the two communities.
The order said the Senate authorizes payments from the budget of the House of “travel expenses incurred in accordance with the standards officers at all times set”.
On the other hand, the Supreme adding that it would be desirable to have enacted regulations required for avoidance of doubt among the public on the use of public funds on trips of parliamentarians.
“The confidence of citizens in the proper functioning of the system of political representation is the basis of the rule of law,” the high court, at a time when political corruption has become the second concern for citizens.
The hype on one of the barons Popular Party began after a newspaper reported that the Extremadura president charged allegedly in 2009 and 2010 private trips to the Canary Islands when he was a senator.
Monago, which governs Extremadura since 2011 after nearly three decades of socialist rule in the region, presented documentation after to show that traveled to the Canary Islands on 16 occasions by for work and did not take the movement for personal business.
© Thomson Reuters 2015 All rights reserved.
No comments:
Post a Comment