The general secretary of the PP in Castilla-La Mancha, Carolina Agudo, has offered to pay a PSOE deputy in Congress the fine of 600 euros that his party could impose if he voted against the amnesty law for those involved. in the illegal independence referendum in Catalonia that Pedro Sánchez’s team continues to negotiate with Junts.
The offer of the number two popular party in the region comes after this week its leader, Paco Núñez, wrote to the regional president, the socialist Emiliano García-Page, to ask him to stop the “enormous nonsense” that, His trial would mean the application of this measure of grace for those prosecuted by the process. In the letter, he challenged him with the argument: “Only you can do it.”
“They are on time and, if their conscience leads them to value the seriousness of the amnesty more than servility to Sánchez, I myself volunteer to pay Sergio Gutiérrez those 600 euros for skipping the voting discipline so that he can vote conscientiously with Spain and in conscience with the people of Castile-Manchego,” said Agudo this Friday. “If it’s for those 600 euros, I’ll pay them, because it’s going to be more expensive for all of us in Castile-La Mancha than the price we’re going to have to pay for the Sánchez toll,” he added in a public appearance.
The aforementioned parliamentarian has responded, in turn, through his X account to Eduardo Tamayo, one of the two PSOE deputies who in 2003 prevented the appointment of his colleague Rafael Simancas as president of the Community of Madrid , “they offered him several millions” for being absent from the Vallecas Assembly on voting day. To which he added: “They consider us to be of a lower level and they offer us €600. Will they pay it with Mr. Nuñez’s mileage allowances? You start out wanting to make a Tamayo and you end up like [Luis] Bárcenas [the former treasurer of the PP involved in Gürtel]”.
In his message, spread through the social network In the region he had been paid since 2019 despite having an official car. When asked by EL MUNDO, Núñez justified that he had collected these allowances due to “an administrative error” and subsequently proceeded to return the money.