According to information published today in various media, a report by the Civil Guard requested the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco, who cite to testify as investigated / charged to the senator and former mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, for possible crimes of embezzlement of public funds and fraud management
According to information published today in various media, a report by the Civil Guard requested the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco, who cite to testify as investigated / charged to the senator and former mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, for possible crimes of embezzlement of public funds and fraud management to have hired Alejandro Pedro to improve its image on social networks with public money.
Pending confirmed this information, the spokesman for Citizens Cartagena, Manuel Padin, is very concerned that the Civil Guard asked to be awarded against Ms. Barreiro, and very inadequate explanations given in this park statement issued today by the Popular Party Cartagena also recalled that "Mrs. Pilar Barreiro is already charged, in fact is the only senior member of the Popular Party accused by the case Novo Carthago continues without assuming its political responsibility, and this is admissible, should have left her act immediately ".
The leader of the Orange formation "considers that" the Popular Party, far from wanting to regenerate again included Mrs. Barreiro on their lists for the Senate, "believes Manuel Padin.,
According to Manuel Padin, "the commitment of this party by political regeneration is firm, Citizens holding public office and being charged is not compatible. We understand that in the event that the person under investigation or accused in a subsequent trial may return to appear on an electoral list and is also very clear that otherwise, is the need to disable permanently. Citizens has applied this way of working in politics from the first minute and tried to move it through various agreements investiture throughout Spain, and it is time that parties like the PP start to internalize these maxims. "
To Padin, "many are reluctant to understand the difference between judicial accountability and political responsibility, in the first premium, can not be otherwise, the presumption of innocence, but in politics should prevail guarantee that anyone who manages public affairs does so without any shadow of suspicion. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena