The deputy secretary of Mobilization and Digital Challenge of the PP, Noelia Núñez, announced this Wednesday that she will resign from all her organic and institutional positions following the controversy caused by the falsehoods presented in her CV.
"I think asking for forgiveness is not enough," the Popular Party deputy maintains in the statement published on her social networks."After having presented incorrect information in the Congress of Deputies, I assume full responsibility for my own actions," Núñez adds, to justify her resignation as leader of the Génova leadership. She will also leave her seat in the Lower House and her responsibilities as PP spokesperson in the Fuenlabrada City Council.
The decision comes in the wake of the controversy sparked on social media in recent hours over the different versions of his resume filed with different institutions. On the Congressional website, Núñez claimed to have a university degree that he never actually completed.
It was Núñez herself who informed the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of her resignation. According to PP sources consulted by EL MUNDO, what she told him was:"I cannot defend what I defend and not do what I would ask of others."
"I feel more at ease if I contribute to restoring trust in politics, personally taking the most difficult of all possible decisions," Núñez adds in her statement. And, looking sideways at the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), she maintains that she is"proud to be a member of a party with this level of demands." "My party's standards of exemplary conduct are not like those of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), nor do mine correspond to those of those leaders who engage in, accept, or tolerate any type of inappropriate practice or even criminal conduct."
The Popular Party leader elaborates on this theory in the commentary accompanying her post: "No, we are not like them." Feijóo also expressed himself in the same vein, reproaching the PSOE leaders for their criticism of Núñez."Many of those who have mercilessly attacked her live shamelessly with total immorality and lies made personified," she wrote on social media.
"The fact that the ethical bar set by [Pedro] Sánchez and his people does not exist does not mean that the rest of us should modify ours," Feijóo maintained, and the parliamentary spokesperson for the popular, Ester Muñoz, has seconded the thesis, pointing directly at the socialists whose CVs are questionable:"At what time do Pilar Bernabé, Patxi López and Pedro Sánchez resign for, at the very least, falsifying their CVs and plagiarizing doctoral theses? Indeed not, we are not the same."
Several PSOE leaders had called for the resignation of the Popular Party (PP) MP throughout Wednesday, stating that to do otherwise"would demonstrate that lying is allowed in the PP without consequences." Núñez, however, shielded herself by saying that she"never" had "the intention of deceiving anyone" and defended the falsehoods presented in her CV on the Congressional website as a "mistake."
