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Councilor Enrique Lorca, who points out that there are more payments, prior to 2018; notes that "this seems very serious to us because we are talking about a government councilor who hires himself"Likewise, it announces that it will ask the Intervention to rule on this case and will also request a report from the legal services of the Murcia City CouncilGiven the news published about the authorization by the Councilor for Culture at the Murcia City Council, Jesús Pacheco, of the payment of almost 30,000 euros in accommodation bills at the Arco de San Juan hotel, governed by Pacheco himself, the Municipal Socialist Group He declares that "here it is only possible that Mayor Ballesta dismiss him because we are facing a government official who hires himself, that is inadmissible."In this sense, the socialist mayor Enrique Lorca explains that, “from what we have been able to find out, these are invoices for overnight stays of visitors who came to Murcia hired by the Department of Culture itself, so we find ourselves in the delirious circumstance of that Pacheco first thing in the morning authorized an invoice in the hotel of which he was manager and later in his office of the Department confirmed the payment of the same.

This the mayor Ballesta must not tolerate ”.In this regard, Lorca points out that in the news that appeared today there is talk of expenses for the years 2018 and 2019, but "Pacheco, who has been a councilor since 2015 and has reconciled all the time, until March 2020, his political position with that of Hotel manager, has followed this practice during the years prior to 2018 and for a similar amount, so we would go to a total payment that would be around 60,000 euros.For all these reasons, the PSOE, in addition to compiling all the existing invoices, will request a report from the City Council's Intervention and will also request an opinion from the municipal legal services.

"We can not let this matter pass and it is quite grotesque to us that if it were a member of a municipal board, he would have no other choice but to stop, so in the case of a government councilor with responsibilities and authority to manage public money there is no other way out ”.He adds that “this situation seems very serious to us and we are sure that Mayor Ballesta, who has been doing so much pedagogy about ethics and morals lately, cannot have councilors who hire themselves on his team, because what What would happen if a town planning mayor contracts with his private company to clean the lots? We would be facing a huge irregularity.

The mayor now has the opportunity to demonstrate to public opinion that he does not have two measuring sticks ”Lorca states that "a City Council like Murcia cannot be peppered with this transfer and mix of private and public interests, the PP with the mayor at the head must mark the border well", but it is more, adds the socialist councilor, " the choice of the Arco de San Juan is intentional, because in the same category and a few meters from it we find five more hotels, to which we must guarantee free competition, because otherwise the business is always for them.

”The socialist mayor adds that this case "can be understood as an anomaly.

I am sure that society deserves convincing clarifications, and so we will demand them, of course excuses we will not allow ”.

Source: PSOE Murcia