The Government will have to report private trips in which the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has used the Falcon.

The court has rejected the appeal that the State Attorney had filed against the decision of the Council for Transparency and Good Governance that the data be provided.

The petition made focuses on trips on the official plane between January 1 and May 20 that were unrelated to his status as Prime Minister.

The Legal Profession, on behalf of the Government, argued that this flight record "does not exist" and that "the Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government does not have a file, database or information system on the means of transport used in each one of the trips made ".

"Among the competences attributed to the Presidency of the Government, to which the activity of the body is circumscribed, there is neither the management of the State car fleet, nor the management of Group 45 of the Air Force to which the aircraft destined to the transport of high personalities of the State, among them the President of the Government ", it specified.

The allegations for not giving the data continued saying that it was difficult to differentiate when the chief executive ceased to be so "at some point of the day" and "under what conditions or circumstances the use of an official means of transport would be under the protection of such condition and in which not ".

Faced with this, the Central Court of Administrative Litigation number 2 of the Hearing is skeptical of the version that there is no information that the Government "should have."

"It is difficult to understand that the Presidency of the Government lacks information on the private movements of the Prime Minister in official air means, whose existence he does not deny, and that he does not know which Administration has it," he adds.

It also highlights that a "reworking" of the data available to the Administration is not necessary, which is one of the reasons why applications can be denied.

The court emphasizes that the petition is very limited since it does not refer to any type of displacement during a long period.

The ruling indicates that after receiving the request for information, the Executive was "reluctant" to give the data, and specifies that, in the event that there have been no private displacements of the Prime Minister, "it must be expressly indicated."

Finally, it rejects the thesis of the Legal Profession that disclosing the information could pose a risk to the security of the State, since it would allow the establishment of movement patterns.

The sentence responds that "these are events that have already occurred, that it is not classified information and, finally, that the displacements are public knowledge in most cases given their media coverage."

The court's decision is not final.

The Government can still file an appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the National Court.

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