The People’s Party Cross port files a complaint with the Court of Accounts for alleged irregularities in spending for Christmas public lighting carried out by the Government of Portoand. Ángel Montañés, councilor and candidate for mayor of the municipality for the Popular Party, speaks of “serious negligence.”
The team of PSOE Puerto de la Cruz authorized, according to the popular people of Porto, an amount of 248,184 euros for the placement of public lighting during the Christmas period, a figure that quadruples what was established in the specifications of the mixed service and energy supply contract that contemplates 60,000 euros per year for festive public lighting throughout the year.
The popular ones consider that it could have been avoided <>
In addition and to top it off, the popular denounce that “in November the Government awarded a minor contract for the drafting of the tender specifications for Christmas and festive public lighting, the contracting of which is separate and independent from the mixed contract for energy services and supplies and In any case, said file will be adjudicated after the removal of the decoration, proving the fraudulent and unlawful nature of the decision taken to the detriment of public funds.
For Ángel Montañés, the local government “disregards compliance with the Law” by spending “exorbitantly without a prior public contest, which has no legal coverage and without an existence of credit that would allow it to meet this expense.” The popular candidate also wanted to put on the table “the financial hole” that this implies for the local administration, given that “it has also been carried out consciously using taxpayers’ money in an irresponsible and very inefficient way.”
“Could have been prevented”
In the complaint, the Popular Party makes it clear that this situation “could have been avoided if the contracting had been done in a transparent manner and in accordance with the legally established procedures”, which “would have made it possible to achieve the same thing but with more advantageous prices and without damaging the public finances in the way that the current Puerto Rican government has apparently done.
