Sánchez spends €56,000 going to rally

John Ensor

AS part of his campaign for re ­ election, Pedro Sánchez has used his luxurious private jet, which costs €7,000 per hour to rent.

Despite the fact that Sánchez’s luxury private plane was parked in a discreet area, he was spotted on board, according to a news source on Saturday, June 24.

This will be President Sánchez’s second precampaign rally outside the peninsula in which the luxury jet has been employed. The flight will cost an estimated €56,000 from a budget of €450,000 that has been allocated for travel. In the May 28 campaign, half of that budget was spent on two flights.

The President has once again chosen to use the same aircraft that he used for most of his trips during the May 28 campaign to travel to the island of Tenerife to take part in a meeting with minister Héctor Gómez and Canary Islands president Ángel Víctor Torres.

The aircraft was scheduled to take off on Saturday June 24 from the Madrid ­ Barajas corporate terminal, around 8:15am. However, the presidential entourage did not take off until almost half an hour later, at 8:42am. Consequently, the plane arrived later than scheduled at the Tenerife North airport in La Laguna at 10.11am.

The jet, which was chosen by Sánchez has a cabin height of 1.88 metres and a width of 2.34 metres, a size larger than that of the official Falcon and in which the president of the government is no doubt more comfortable.

The private jet has space for up to 10 passengers, with a top speed of 891 kilometres per hour and requires the presence of at least three crew members: a pilot, a co ­ pilot and a cabin technician.

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