The trip to the Caribbean of the PNL councilor in Arrecife, Pedro de Armas, has generated a great controversy and has reached a multitude of national media, television gatherings and even comedy websites and programs. Days after La Voz published that the councilor had been absent from the capital's City Hall for five months, but had a secretary and a municipal mobile phone whose bills were "excessive", the national media have echoed the news.
Special mention should be made of the game that [Gran Wyoming played this Wednesday on "El Intermedio", on La Sexta, entitled "We choose the public employee of the month". ->http://www.lasexta.com/lasextaon/elintermedio/completos/el_intermedio__el_empleado_publico_del_mes/611973/1] The presenter introduced this game saying that among the candidates were "state workers who reinforce the Spanish feeling, of making us feel like idiots".
Gran Wyoming did not hesitate to award this prize to the PNL councilor, who was competing for the prize with the president of the Supreme Court, Carlos Dívar, the now former Minister of Health of Extremadura, Javier Fernández Perianes, and Carlos Delgado, Minister of Tourism of the Balearic Islands. The comedian presented them all as people who "spend public money in times of crisis to live the good life".
Specifically, Pedro de Armas was presented in El Intermedio as the politician who "has jumped to Spanish stardom for touring the Caribbean for five months". It was then that Gran Wyoming said: "Let's give him the prize. No one can make us Spaniards feel more idiotic, not even Cristina de Kichner and Evo Morales together." In addition, he made another joke about the Lanzarote councilor's trip: "He has been away from Spain for so long that he does not know that we are in crisis." Wyoming added that, probably, the councilor's trip was to check "if the Canarian rum was better than the Caribbean rum."
Information websites and gatherings
In addition, portals as important as elmundo.es "posted" the news about the absence of Pedro de Armas, under the headline ["A councilor from Arrecife has been absent from the consistory for five months, touring the Caribbean"->http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/05/08/espana/1336489433.html]. This article was the most read on this website from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning. In addition, El Mundo's website published another news story about Pedro de Armas on Wednesday afternoon, entitled "The Arrecife councilor who has been traveling in the Caribbean for 5 months will not leave his post."
Other digital information portals such as Elconfidencial.com also echoed this controversy generated by Pedro de Armas' trip to the Caribbean, also mentioning La Voz de Lanzarote, under the headline ["A Canarian councilor has been on a cruise in the Caribbean for five months and without setting foot in his office." ->http://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2012/05/09/un-concejal-canario-lleva-cinco-meses-de-crucero-por-el-caribe-y-sin-pisar-su-despacho-97632/#]This digital newspaper managed to contact the PNL councilor, who told this media that he will return the extra money he has spent with the municipal mobile phone and that he will explain what happened when he returns to Arrecife.
Pedro de Armas' trip on a Canarian schooner, which departed for the island of Martinique on January 8 as part of the seventh regatta of the Atlantic Grand Prix, has also had its "place" in the news programs of La Sexta, as well as on TVE and Antena 3. Stations such as Cope or Radio Nacional de España have also reported on this news.
But the attitude of Pedro de Armas has even been the protagonist of gatherings on ElMundoTV or Intereconomía. And it has also appeared on portals such as yahoo, under the headline "The councilor who works from the Caribbean", or on pages that normally compile comic and curious news, such as www.meneame.net. In addition, this news has also been published on websites such as [www.que.es->http://www.que.es/ultimas-noticias/espana/201205091314-pedro-armas-edil-arrecife-lleva-cont.html], www.noticias.lainformación.com or www.república.com.
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[José Francisco Reyes' son sailed to Martinique with De Armas, despite having to go to court every 15 days->69399]
[The PNL councilor was already absent from the City Council from 2003 to 2005->69511]
[The law does not include the expulsion of a councilor->69512]
[EDITORIAL: A councilor adrift->69515]
