The municipal group of CC-PNC in La Laguna denounced yesterday that “what was spent during the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the City Council by the Government has been carried out without any type of financial control”. This was stated by the spokesman for the nationalist formation, Jonathan Domínguez, and the general secretary of CC La Laguna and councillor, Fran Hernández, who described this event as “extremely serious”.
They explained that these statements are due to the statements made by the City Council’s comptroller in the last plenary session, where she said that it is true that it is mandatory to carry out the subsequent inspection with the report and the audit, but that she has not been able to carry it out because she was not has provided the appropriate means in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. Given this, CC has requested in writing from the Government information on the actions they have carried out to provide the service with the necessary human resources.
“We want to know what this government group is hiding so that it does not prioritize or solve this problem, because otherwise it will force us to go to court to denounce this serious situation,” said Domínguez, who also denounced that “the mayor has raised a objection of more than 790,000 euros” in the form of subsidies for SMEs during COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the municipal government of La Laguna responded yesterday that Jonathan Domínguez’s statements “are riddled with falsehoods.” “In the first place, the mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, has not raised any objection to the intervention,” they affirmed.
“interestedly confused”
In addition, they argued that “CC interestedly confuses auditing with control. All the files have Intervention reports, through limited prior inspection, which was approved unanimously by the political parties, including CC. So the City Council does not pay any bill that has not been audited.
Likewise, from the Executive they explained that “the audit of the accounts, which is not mandatory, does not correspond to a political decision, but rather is a decision made by the Intervention, which is an autonomous body.” And they also recalled that “the lack of personnel in that department, which has been in demand since 2018, is not an obstacle to carrying out an audit, since it can be outsourced, but it must be done at the request of the Intervention itself”.
