Mónago announces the sale of the official residence of Extremadura

Sold official residence. The chairman of the Government of Extremadura, José Antonio Mónago, of the PP, has taken advantage of the full of the autonomous parliament convened to explain their travel of the Canary Islands to announce that it will put on sale the "palace" in the Extremaduran presidents as a measure of "savings".

The president from Extremadura has pointed out that both he and the members of his government resigned to diets and supplements, among other "disclaimers" to reduce public spending. After has reminded us, in order to stress its policy of austerity, that since his appointment he resigned "to live in the presidential palace which is payable by all the extremeños", a decision, in his opinion, "special significance and not just symbolic". "I decided to stay in my house pagandome my light, my water, my food, my contribution, my IBI with my payroll as any family from Extremadura. Because there are things you can afford", has been asserted.



The cost of this "presidential palace" in which, as has been stressed, have lived for the previous two presidents from Extremadura, the socialists Guillermo Fernandez Vara and Juan Carlos Rodriguez Ibarra, was in the previous legislature "of almost a million euros".

"We are already testing the market" for sale, has insured. In fact, the news on the sale already circulating in real estate portals as idealista.com, that describes the official residence as "a sort of 'Moncloa' extremaduran" of nature in a palatial information on the announcement of Mónago accompanied by images of the house.

During his speech, the president from Extremadura has been presented as a champion of transparency and has argued that the new travel to the Canary Islands that payment the Senate were working and that the private displacements the covered in your pocket. As has been reiterated, the upper House was in charge of 16 journeys (the other 22 private payment).

"Plan 16 trips to the Canary Islands and 22 private flights, to pay my pocket," he insisted. They were work-related travel "trivia" that have been reflected in a "Report of more than 400 pages" on this matter. "Never in the history of this country has become an exercise in transparency as the that thanks to the best computer that may have a president we have made ourselves", has presumed.

To respond to the doubts about their travel, Mónago met press clippings, photos of party, notes of its agenda and papers signed by fellow members of the PP on their visits to the Canary Islands from the Senate. The upper house i certify the number of trips, but without details about dates, costs or destinations. The papers showed it to the media after the press conference that gave to explain his version of the controversy, but not handed over with the argument that will serve to defend it against possible lawsuits.