The Courts of Castilla-La Mancha have asked the PP candidate for the regional government, Francisco Núñez, to clarify the use he makes of the official car that he “notoriously” uses when traveling and “for those who have a driver” that , like the vehicle, is “at the expense” of the institution.

The politician from the main opposition group has received a total of 14,560 euros as “locomotion” for going to plenary sessions since the start of the legislature in July 2019, as EL MUNDO announced last week. To questions from this newspaper, Núñez then argued that an “administrative error” had occurred and immediately afterwards formally requested the regional Parliament to “regularize the amounts received”..

In the Castilian-Manchegan Parliament – where the PSOE has an absolute majority – they have responded this Monday that, according to article 11.4 of the Regulations, “the deputies will have the right to compensation for the actual costs of transportation for attending the sessions of the bodies of the Chamber, prior official summons, when they use public transport or compensation for mileage in the amount determined by the Board”.

“In other words, compensation can only occur when an expense has been generated for the deputy to attend an official session of the Cortes, either by the use of public transport or private vehicle. Therefore, the deputies who, due to the exercise of their position, have an official vehicle cannot receive, and never have received, mileage allowances that serve to compensate the trips from their home to the Cortes to attend plenary sessions and commissions “. underline in their writing.

For this reason, they warn that the payment of these allowances in their case “can only be produced with the accreditation of the non-availability of the official car” that the PP candidate “has assigned on the specific days of the call and indicating the private car used”. And they add: “For all the above, I ask you to clarify what is appropriate to be able to continue with the following procedures aimed at regularizing the situation in accordance with the law”.

“We have detected an administrative error in the expenses received for locomotion in the Regional Courts,” Núñez tweeted last Thursday after the call from EL MUNDO. “I have immediately asked the services of the Chamber and the president of the same to correct it. The honesty of a politician must be above all else,” he added.