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Noelia Núñez resigns as a member of parliament and deputy secretary of the People's Party (PP) after admitting that she had lied about her studies.

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Spain

Wednesday, July 23


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The Deputy Secretary for Mobilization and the Digital Challenge resigns from her position as a deputy after it was revealed that she had submitted incorrect information in her personal file for the Lower House.

PP MP Noelia Núñez has announced her resignation after admitting that she had presented incorrect information to the Congress of Deputies. I take full responsibility for my actions and, accordingly, I will be resigning from all my organizational and institutional positions, she stated in a message posted on her social media shortly after communicating her decision to Alberto Núñez Feijóo in a letter.

Specifically, Núñez had admitted this Wednesday that she had not completed her university studies, something she attributed to a mistake. But her testimony in various recent interviews revealed a different mood, which had strained the atmosphere within the party. This pressure has led to the resignation of the young deputy, who leaves her seat in the chamber and also abandons her organizational positions within the PP, as well as her position as a councilor on the Fuenlabrada City Council.

No, we are not all the same, he explained on his social networks, in clear reference to left-wing politicians who did not resign from their positions after having been caught in similar situations, such as the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé. With my decision, I show the way to all those socialist leaders who, with much more to hide or cover up, continue to cling to their positions and survive in politics trusting in people's amnesia or deception of citizens, he pointed out.

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La carta de dimisión de Noelia Núñez

Noelia Núñez's resignation letter

The Deputy Secretary for Mobilization and Digital Challenge has also resigned from her organizational positions within the party, as well as her position as councilor in Fuenlabrada.

I take full responsibility for my own actions. I apologize to those who feel disappointed, but I also believe that asking for forgiveness is not enough. I feel more at ease if I contribute to restoring trust in politics, personally taking on the most difficult of all possible decisions, Núñez explained in her statement, in which she thanked Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Isabel Díaz Ayuso for their trust.

The issue of her unfinished studies, which she stated as completed in her personal profile for Congress, had been circulating on social media for days, but it was a message from the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, that triggered the fire just a few hours ago. Afterward, Noelia Núñez attempted to apologize for the situation, but the explanations proved insufficient for the PP leadership, which, following the outbreak of the Montoro case, could not afford another fire.

To conclude, I add this paragraph from the letter I sent to the president of my party:"Responsibility is the essence of freedom, and with this decision, I assume mine." I believe it is the best thing for politics, for the PP, and for my own family. I apologize to them for years of absence and I regret the pain they have suffered in recent hours, the Madrid native stated.

For his part, Feijóo thanked Núñez for his honesty. It's a decision that honors him. For more serious, even criminal, conduct, the PSOE would have told him to put up with it."Noelia is not like them, nor am I like Sánchez," the PP president stated in a message on social media.

He wasn't the only Popular Party leader to speak out following Noelia Núñez's resignation. The new spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, asked: When will Pilar Bernabé, Patxi López, and Pedro Sánchez resign for, at the very least, falsifying their CVs and plagiarizing doctoral theses?

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