Pedro Bestard, on the controversy of the Consell de Mallorca cars: "I want a public apology"

PalmThe second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, appeared this Thursday before the Transparency Commission of the Consell de Mallorca to try to explain his use of two vehicles of the island institution. But beyond denying personal use, Bestard has not provided any concrete information. He has explained, however, that his department is dispersed throughout the island and that this forces him to travel. "If I go from Manacor to Alcudia and I have to stop to eat in Ses Torres, I will stop. Or in Es Cruce," he said at one point during his speech, during which he did not clarify whether he ordered the vehicles to be left unlabeled, nor the routes, nor the kilometers he has driven, nor why two Consell cars have also been seen spending the night in front of his house. On this occasion, Bestard arrived at the Consell in an official car with a driver and demanded that, once the reports commissioned by President Llorenç Galmés are released, the left-wing parties apologize to him. "I want to be publicly apologized to," he snapped at the PSOE spokesperson, Catalina Cladera.

The vice president read his speeches and lost the thread when he tried to improvise. Only the PSOE and MÉS per Mallorca have demanded concrete information. Vox and PP, who govern together in the island institution, have played a different role: the spokesperson for the popular party, Núria Riera, has called for prudence until the reports are known; and Vox's spokesperson, Antoni Gili, has limited himself to his party's argument since it became known that Bestard could have used the cars for personal and party matters, arguing that the vice president works many hours a day and travels to many places on the island.