The spokesperson for Unidad Podemos (Izquierda Unida-Podemos-Equo), Ramón Trujillo, has criticized the negligence of the municipal government of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with the Canary Coalition and the Popular Party in charge, to review the contracts of Juan Luis Guerra and Sebastián Yatra in the carnivals of 2018 and 2019. “The government has once again demonstrated that it lacks political will [de revisar de oficio los expedientes] despite the fact that the senior officer detected grounds for nullity and that even the Prosecutor’s Office found administrative irregularities. ”
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Trujillo reiterates that “it has become clear” that Alfonso Cabello, the party councilor of the Tenerife capital, “lied” to United Podemos in January of this year, when he declared that the ex officio review was already underway. Last July United We asked to know the file, and in September, the petition was reiterated, and it was answered that it had not yet been started.
“In addition, since August”, says the UP councilor, “Alfonso Cabello knows, from a technical report from the Autonomous Party Organization that, in the face of possible errors in the processing of the ex officio review by the previous government (PSOE-Cs), he was competent to make this decision or to be urged by the Local Government Board ”.
And continues. “Since then, three months have passed and he has not done anything either, and the worst thing is that in this Control Commission he spoke as if the August report did not exist and is now acknowledged,” criticizes the UP spokesman.
Trujillo stresses that “at the rate that the local government is going with this matter, it is not surprising that one day we find ourselves with prescriptions of files” in which the Prosecutor’s Office, although it did not appreciate crimes of criminal relevance, yes administrative irregularities, which are also observed by the senior officer, for whom the hiring is invalid. “The Contract Law obliges in these cases to an ex officio review, a legal obligation that Alfonso Cabello still does not fulfill to this day,” adds the mayor of the confluence of the left.
It should be remembered that, in the case of Juan Luis Guerra and the Orischas group, 250,597 euros were paid to the producer Alfredo Moré without first presenting the invoices for this expense, as required by the contracting specifications. In addition, the letter with which he tried to prove that he had the exclusivity of the groups is “clearly insufficient to prove it,” Trujillo reasons, as it had to have also been signed by the artists themselves and the hiring file was made urgently , without this being justified, a month before the concert. All these circumstances, according to the mayor of the City Council, can be void vices.
Regarding the Yatra case, the Colombian singer did not even perform at the Chicharrero Carnival, despite which the contract was signed and paid for by the City Council.
