Pedro Sánchez prescribes “following the trail of money and overpayments” to identify the economic powers and their political and media terminals that, according to him, are trying to evict him from Moncloa.
And the PSOE promoted another line of attack yesterday, in the midst of an electoral dispute, insisting on following the trail of money and, specifically, of the remuneration that Alberto Núñez Feijóo receives from the Popular Party, apart from his remuneration as senator
“Feijóo continues to not clarify to the citizens, for a little more than a year, what is the oversalary he receives from the PP”, warned Minister Pilar Alegría yesterday, as spokesperson for the electoral committee of the PSOE.
To the pacts between the PP and the extreme right of Vox in town halls and communities, and to Feijóo’s lack of concreteness to accept face-to-face electoral debates with Pedro Sánchez in this campaign, the socialists add the demand to know “the sooner the better ” the amount of financial remuneration that the popular leader receives from his own party, apart from the salary he receives as a senator.
The spokesperson of the socialist group in the Senate, Eva Granados, just yesterday sent a letter to the president of the Upper Chamber, fellow socialist Ander Gil, in which she urged him to address Senator Feijóo to claim his duty update his statement of assets and income, “given that he has revealed that he receives remuneration from the PP that the Senate has not informed”.
The socialists allege in their writing that it rains on wet: “The PP is and continues to be the only party condemned for irregular financing, and it has been proven in court that a system of payments was created within it in cash to its top managers with origins in donations outside of official accounting”.
The PSOE had already been pulling this thread for some time. But on Monday, Feijóo himself acknowledged to Ser that, in addition to the nearly 70,000 euros he receives annually as a senator, he gets a bonus as president of the PP. This increase in his salary, however, is not reflected in his declaration of assets and income presented to the Senate. And the socialists demand an immediate end to this “lack of transparency”. Minister Alegría denounced “opacity and obscurantism” on this issue.
The recognition by Feijóo that he receives remuneration from the PP is of “great significance”, according to the PSOE’s letter, since it confirms that “he is hiding part of his income in the Senate”. And they conclude that “there is a concerted will between the PP and its president to hide this information from the general public”.
