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Spain's Rajoy says corruption allegations are false

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Spanish Prime Minister and the ruling People's Party leader Mariano Rajoy gestures as he presides over his party's national executive committee in Madrid
Susana Vera  /  REUTERS
Spanish Prime Minister and the ruling People's Party (PP) leader Mariano Rajoy gestures as he presides over his party's national executive committee in Madrid February 2, 2013. The People's Party denied on Thursday that Rajoy and other leaders received payments from a slush fund after a newspaper published what it said were secret party accounts. El Pais published images of excerpts of almost two decades of handwritten accounts that it said were maintained by People's Party treasurers. The newspaper said the accounts showed 11 years of payments to Rajoy of 25,200 euros ($34,200) a year. REUTERS/Susana Vera
updated 2/2/2013 7:57:44 AM ET 2013-02-02T12:57:44

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy strongly denied on Saturday allegations in the media that he and other leaders of his center-right People's Party had for years received payments out of a secret slush fund.

"I need only two words: it's false," Rajoy said in a televised address to party leaders who gathered on Saturday for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the allegations.

Rajoy said that he would publish on the party's website all of his tax declarations to clear up the scandal, after newspaper El Pais published what it said were ledgers maintained by party treasurers to register cash contributions from business leaders that were then distributed to party leaders.

(Reporting by Sarah White; Writing by Fiona Ortiz)

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