PM orders “exhaustive” audits into PP’s finances

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Series Details 21.01.13
Publication Date 21/01/2013
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Attempting to ward off an explosive situation inside his Popular Party (PP) over reports of illegal cash payments being handed out to top leaders, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy ordered 'profound and exhaustive' audits of his organisation’s finances and donations on the 21 January 2013.

Mariano Rajoy’s State of the Nation debate pledge on the 19 February 2013 to tackle rampant political corruption in Spain was not warmly received by the opposition benches, which considered his proposals a mere Band-Aid on a gushing wound. The prime minister vowed to seek parliamentary agreement on a raft of measures to stamp out what the Spanish public views as an unfettered culture of political profiteering.
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