Ciudadanos has once again expelled the refugee councilor Evelyn Alonso from its ranks, thanks to which the Canarian Coalition recovered the mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 2020 through a motion of censure unauthorized by the formation. On this occasion, the second, the expulsion has taken much longer than the first, which was suspended by the justice for formal errors, but since June 2021 it has already become definitive. This Friday, in the plenary session of the Santacrucero City Council, a certification sent to the secretary of the Corporation should be taken into consideration so that it acts in accordance with the law and an October 2020 ruling of the Supreme Court: sending Evelyn Alonso to the group of non-attached councilors and decreeing the loss of the positions he occupies and the emoluments he collects for them.
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Last Friday, a letter from Citizens signed by its national general secretary, Marina Bravo Sobrino, was entered in the registry of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council. In it, the party for which the turncoat councilor ran in the elections in 2019 reports that the resolution of the Disciplinary Regime Commission for which Alonso was expelled is dated June 18, 2021. The councilor, always according to this certificate, he committed very serious infractions contemplated as such in the statutes and in the party’s disciplinary regulations. Those infractions were disobeying the direct orders not to support the motion of censure, and once in the government group, together with the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party, repeatedly ignoring the instructions of its formation, among others, those to leave the group of government. Likewise, she has disobeyed one by one all the indications of what she had to vote on each matter of interest to Citizens.
Evelyn Alonso has declined to offer her version to this newspaper. She contacted through the communication office of the City Council, she has replied that the file is in the hands of her lawyer, who is analyzing it. According to official sources from Ciudadanos, the turncoat councilor did not present arguments for her expulsion, despite the fact that all of her steps were notified to her through the Security Department of the consistory, for which she is ultimately responsible.
Citizens have formally requested the secretary of the Corporation to apply the anti-transfuguismo agreements and the Law of Bases of Local Regime, which place councilors who abandon the candidacy for which they got their act or are expelled in the group of non-attached councilors. , How is the case. The most recent jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, based on a doctrine of the Fourth Chamber of October 2020, clearly establishes it: the turncoat councilors must become non-attached, as a consequence or due to an alleged turnaround, which “It prevents them from assuming positions or receiving remuneration that they did not previously exercise or receive and imply personal, political or economic improvements.”
Currently Evelyn Alonso has a salary of 60,220 euros per year corresponding to the performance of the departments of Citizen Security and Mobility, Economic Promotion and Environment. That without counting the recent increase in salaries to the government group, which is not yet publicly recorded.
Before accessing the act of councillor, which was produced by the resignation of her predecessor on the list, Juan Ramón Lazcano, the turncoat had a salary of less than 18,000 euros a year as an assistant in the mixed parliamentary group, in which she appears now Another fugitive from Ciudadanos, the deputy Vidina Espino, together with Ricardo Fernández de la Puente, who remains faithful to the acronym by which he obtained the act.
