A court of the Investigation Section of the Palma Court of Instance has admitted for processing the Prosecutor's Office's lawsuit against the second vice president of the Council of Mallorca, Pedro Bestard (Vox), for an alleged crime of embezzlement related to the use of official vehicles, as reported by Diario de Mallorca.

The president of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, assures that he will act with "firmness" if irregularities are confirmed in the use of official cars by the institution's vice president, Pedro Bestard. Council sources have explained that all necessary measures will be taken if it is found that there has been irregular conduct, after the Prosecutor's Office decided to file a complaint against the Vox leader.

The second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, appeared this Thursday before the Transparency Commission of the Consell de Mallorca to give explanations on the use he has made 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 scattered 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 traveled, 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 chauffeur and demanded that, once the reports commissioned by President Llorenç Galmés are released, the left-wing parties apologize to him. "I want them to apologize to me publicly," he snapped at the PSOE spokesperson, Catalina Cladera.

The Consell de Mallorca will conduct two reports to ascertain whether the vice-president of the insular institution, Pedro Bestard, has misused the institution's official cars, using them for party events and private matters. As ARA Balears has learned, one will be prepared by the Secretary General of the Consell and the other by the Technical Secretariat of the Department of Environment. But there will be a third report: the one that the president of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés, requested from Bestard this Monday, after meeting with him to demand explanations. Galmés has also demanded that he immediately label the vehicles with the Consell de Mallorca logo and that they return to General Riera every day, where they must spend the nights.