Antonio Marin Lara called for the Ministry of Defence’s headquarters to be torn down.

Antonio Marin Lara called for the Ministry of Defence’s headquarters to be torn down. Lara allegedly spent some 605,000 euros of a four million employment budget on the demolition project.Opposition Izquierda Unida councillor, Rafael Ruiz, explained that he had previously requested a technical report to ascertain the building’s condition several times. He revealed that the only information he received confirmed the headquarters’ partial decline but recommended just a few repairs. And IU member of Parliament Gaspar Llamazares has demanded an official explanation for the demolition, stating that the building’s deterioration was only “partial”. The 19th-Century headquarters were also protected as part of the city’s urban development plan (PGOU).