[1] In 2002, following the resignation of Jesús Gil due to his involvement in a corruption case, Muñoz took over the duties of the Mayor of Marbella until he officially obtained the post on 2 May 2002.
[2] On 13 August of that year, Muñoz lost the mayorship after a motion of censure driven by a group of seven defectors from GIL, after which Marisol Yagüe became the new mayor.
[3] Muñoz was arrested in July 2006 in the second phase of Operation Malaya, in the most important case of corruption in Spain up to then.
[4] Due to poor health stemming from his having diabetes mellitus type 1 he was in a less restricted degree of incarceration since May 2016.
[5] Muñoz died from lung cancer at the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella on 24 September 2024, at the age of 76.