The Investigating Court Number 4 of Arona issued an order on August 17 in which it agreed to the provisional dismissal of the complaint against the mayor of the municipality in the south of Tenerife, José Julián Mena (PSOE), presented by those who were companions of his party Dácil León, Juan Sebastián Roque and Luis García.
The Judicial procedement It began after the municipal plenary session on November 26, 2020, removed from the Mayor’s Office the item on the agenda in which Mena’s passage to the status of unassigned councilor should be reported after the PSOE agreed to his expulsion from the party, which would open the door to a motion of censure.
However, before the plenary session was held, the mayor filed a judicial appeal against the PSOE resolution and, then, the municipal secretary argued, based on a complementary report, that his expulsion from the party could not be executed until said resolution was resolved. resource. Finally, Mena won the appeal against his party and managed to have the file annulled by the courts.
Given Mena’s refusal to join the Non-Appointed Group, the three councilors filed the complaint in January 2021 in which they accused both the mayor and the municipal secretary of prevaricating and committing legal fraud for their maintenance in the Socialist Group. They argued that the PSOE had expelled Mena and that it had also communicated it to the Arona City Council, as explained by Canarias Ahora.
The order establishes, however, that the two reports prepared by the secretary “are fully consistent with each other. The first of them is based on the non-record of any resource. And the second, on the knowledge of its existence”.
