PP and PSOE agree on a limited control on the travel of its members

The Bureau of the Congress has validated the agreement of PP and PSOE to establish a limited control of the travel of the deputies. The parliamentarians will have to specify if your trips are between Madrid and its constituency, officers, or as part of his political activity. So limited is the agreement as that transparency will to publish only the overall figure of spending every three months, without specifying by members, or by groups.

The agreement ensures that "the displacement to another constituency to perform different activities of a political nature, sectoral or institutional representation because of their membership in a group must have the oversight or endorsement of the direction of this group". In other words, it is the own group that is controlled.

This endorsement is transmitted "in the direction of Human Resources and internal government, either prior or subsequent date immediately and, in any case, within the following 15 to him who made the displacement. After this period, have not been such communication, the member shall be required to reimburse the camera the amount".

Up to now not only had no control, but that the deputies and senators could travel free without specifying the reason. That has led to a controversy by 32 flights that the current president of Extremadura, José Antonio Mónago, did as senator in the Canary Islands. Also a member of the PP by Teruel, Carlos Muñoz, resigned to make these same travel.

"The Congress shall be published on a quarterly basis in your web page the total expenditure of the displacement of the members," says the agreement. If any group wants to publish detailed his own can do so, but it is his will. At this point is that there has been more discussion and reticencis. Today, La Posada has once again rejected that should make the "travel reserved" of parliamentarians.

Each group can expand on this information. In fact, UPyD Plural left and was intended to publish the agendas of the deputies, including the meetings held by virtue of his position. And ICV UPyD already did so in their respective websites.

The spokesman of the PSOE, Antonio Hernando, has announced that the socialist MEPS will publish their agendas with "almost" all their activities. It has ensured that will include meetings for development of standards, but not meetings to consider reserved.