Balearic parliament speaker suspended by Podemos

Xelo Huertas, the Podemos president (speaker) of the Balearic parliament, has been suspended from the party. The secretary for organisation, Pablo Echenique, announced the suspension today, explaining that it resulted from requests by Podemos in the Balearics to look into "sufficient evidence" of Huertas having attempted to benefit the "personal interests" of Daniel Bachiller. He is a senior figure in Podemos in the Balearics, and questions have been raised about funding of a laboratory that he operates; he has also been suspended. The funding relates to an agreement with the Balearic government.