Munar says it is quite “normal” that she has been summoned in urban corruption probe

MARIA Antonia Munar, the Speaker of the Balearic parliament and Honorary President of the UM, Majorca Unionist party, was yesterday summoned to appear in a Palma court next month as part of the investigation into alleged urban corruption.

Munar, who was President of the Council of Majorca during the previous legislature, is to be questioned on November 16 about the alleged sale of a 52'000 square metre plot of land at Can Domenge, Palma, by the Council of Majorca for 30 million euros when it was apparently worth nearly double.

Last night she said that it is “quite normal” to have been summoned. “I consider it normal that the court calls the president of the institution which took the decision to hear his or her opinion, along with those of everyone else involved in the process. “Politicians, whether they be former Presidents or leaders of the Council, are people just like the rest of the world and have to answer before the courts just like any other citizen,” she added.

Also summoned yesterday was opposition Partido Popular's spokesperson on the Council of Majorca, Fernando Rubio.
PP spokesperson Carlos Simarro yesterday said that the party has every confidence in the justice system and that Rubio's “honour will be defended and upheld.”