We can ask Congress to review its contract for new mobiles and avoid "luxury spending": "They slipped it in us"

MADRID, 8 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has shown this Thursday his rejection of the contest called by the Chamber for the acquisition of new state-of-the-art mobile phones for deputies for a price of more than one million euros, a decision that has been requested that it be reviewed to avoid "a sumptuary expense" and that, as he has commented, they "sneaked in" the representatives of United We Can at the Table of the Chamber.

"We had not located that decision, we started to investigate and we saw that it had been sneaked into one of the last Tables before the summer", Echenique justified himself at a press conference, given that the contest was approved in a body in the that the PSOE and United We Can have a majority.

After pointing out that he has never used the cell phone that the Chamber provides to the honorable Members, he commented that after studying the specifications of this contract they have come to the conclusion that there are still possibilities of "avoiding a sumptuary expense like this" and he has promised to "work" to achieve it.

In his opinion, the members of Congress must have a "modern and safe terminal" but they do not "need" that they be "very expensive mobiles". "There are other options to fulfill that function," he added.