Evelyn Alonso is once again a non-attached councilor of the Santa Cruz City Council. At least that is the conclusion of the expulsion file that her party, Ciudadanos, opened after a court determined that, with the first process to expel her, initiated after supporting the motion of censure against the PSOE, her fundamental rights had been violated. With this new procedure, in which Cs has scrupulously followed all the steps that its statutes mark, the formation concludes that the infractions committed by Alonso are “very serious”, for which they entail the expulsion from the party and the definitive loss of the condition of institutional representative of the same, with all the consequences that it implies, in particular, in relation to the anti-transfugism agreements.
This resolution, as DIARIO DE AVISOS has learned, has already been officially sent to the Santa Cruz City Council so that it is recorded and acted accordingly. And it is that, according to the Supreme Court, the condition of not assigned “prevents them from assuming positions or receiving remuneration that they did not previously exercise or receive and imply personal, political or economic improvements. The incorporation to the informative commissions is excluded from this limitation”.
Evelyn Alonso is currently the second deputy mayor, councilor for Security, Mobility and Accessibility and Economic Promotion. Functions that, in the new distribution of areas of the Santa Cruz City Council, which will come into force on March 1, will be expanded with areas such as public transport.
Evelyn Alonso, as stated in the resolution of the expulsion file, appealed to the party’s Guarantees Commission against the decision of the Disciplinary Regime Commission. An appeal that was dismissed, so her expulsion becomes definitive, since there is no appeal before any other party body. The options that remain for the former councilor of Cs are back in court.
Alonso became the first non-attached councilor in the history of the Santa Cruz City Council in July 2020, when the socialist Patricia Hernández still held the mayoralty of Santa Cruz, after her party closed an expulsion file for contravening party orders. This decision was already revoked under the mandate of José Manuel Bermúdez, once the court issued a precautionary decision suspending her expulsion.
It remains to be seen if the knowledge of this new expulsion from the Cs party of Evelyn Alonso will take place in plenary next Friday or will be transferred to the ordinary plenary session of March.
