The Barcelona PER El Canvi platform should not have exceeded the authorized expenditure ceiling, nor invoice part of its expenses to third parties, according to the Spanish account court.
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More than 275,000 euros fine. This is the sanction imposed by the Spanish account court on the electoral platform of Manuel Valls in the 2019 municipal elections in Barcelona. Reasons: exceeding the authorized expenditure ceiling (25,000 euros fine) and recourse to financing part of the expenses by third parties (250,000 euros). Invoking such expenses to a third party is prohibited, in addition to exceeding the limits set by law.
The sanction against the platform, called Barcelona per el canvi, is the highest among those affecting several political parties for irregular funding, According to the list of the accounts , the Spanish public finance watch.
According to the document, the unhappy candidate for the town hall of Barcelona did not appeal before the Supreme Court. Moreover, the party no longer exists, it was replaced by a training called Valents.
In March 2021, the Accounts Tribunal published a report on the financing of local elections of 2019. It reveals that “unconvolved electoral expenses” were detected for an amount of nearly 190,000 euros, including 63,000 euros correspond to expenses made before the convening of the elections. Consequently, the party exceeded by 71 % the expenditure limit set by law.
failure in the legislative elections 2022
In 2017, after his defeat in the primary of the left for the presidential election and the victory of Emmanuel Macron, Manuel Valls had been re -elected deputy in the 1 re district of the ‘Essonne, under the label of the presidential majority. The former Socialist Minister had left his post in 2018 to run for the town hall of Barcelona, but he had failed – 13 % of the votes – and had to settle for a position of municipal councilor. Position he left to return to France in August 2021, as a columnist on RMC and BFMTV.
In the June legislative elections, Mr. Valls was the disappointed candidate of the presidential majority in the 5th district of the French from abroad. His nomination had angry the outgoing deputy La République en Marche, Stéphane Vojetta, who had presented himself in dissident of his party. Mr. Vojetta won the election against Renaud Le Berre, the candidate of the new ecological and social popular union, while Manuel Valls was eliminated in the first round.