Invoices case against Elche Mayor archived by Alicante provincial court
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By m.p. - Jun 22, 2009 - 7:29 PM
A complaint from the opposition Partido Popular accused him of using public money to pay for Socialist election publicity

The Alicante provincial court has decided to archive the criminal investigation into Partido Popular allegations that the Socialist Mayor of Elche used public money for Socialist election campaigning. Alejandro Soler appeared in court this April to answer charges of perversion of the course of justice over the PP complaint which claimed he used Town Hall money to pay an advertising bill of 6,000 € for newspaper advertising in the spring of 2007.

The Audiencia said in its ruling last Friday that it found no evidence of either the perversion of justice charge or of misuse of public funds and said there was no ‘bad faith’ in what the Mayor has admitted was an administrative error in paying the two invoices concerned.

Alejandro Pérez, the Socialist spokesman on the local council, called on Monday for his PP counterpart, Mercedes Alonso, to resign over the matter, for having, as he said, ‘put into question the honour of Elche and its Town Hall’. Speaking at a press conference, Pérez, EFE reports, described the PP’s complaint as a set-up based on political motives, and demanded an apology for the people of Elche.

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