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The Mayoress of Ibiza Town, Marienna Sánchez-Jáuregui, was expected to resign within the next few days as a result of the Prensa Pitiusa scandal which broke several weeks ago. The PP party leader, who has been in power since 2011, felt the full force of the committee set up to investigate the media spending of the Town Hall over the last few years. The committee, led by fellow PP member, Pilar Mari, decided that Sánchez-Jáuregui was to blame for several irregularities in the media budget, and that her only option was to resign.
For several months there has been disquiet in some quarters about the irregular financing of the local free newspaper Prensa Pitiusa, after it became apparent that several PP-run town halls had paid a considerable amount of money for advertising, some of which had never even appeared. Just two weeks ago the scandal involving half a million euros which was paid for advertising by Ibiza Town, led to the coalition between PP and PREF ending, ensuring that the mayoress had spent the last few weeks ruling with a minority. She claimed at the time that she had no intention of resigning, but there now looks no way back for her after the statement made by the cross-party committee. Although they have no power to force Sánchez-Jáuregui to resign, it would be almost impossible for her to continue after such a damning report into her behaviour, and she was expected to fall on her sword sooner rather than later.
The report was also critical of her two deputies, Juan Daura and Lina Sansano, although they were not being asked to quit, with the committee claiming the resignation of the mayoress would be enough in this instance.