The Puerto de la Cruz City Council will create an investigative commission entrusted with determining what happened to the 22 votes that were not counted in the municipal elections held on May 28. This will make it possible to settle the responsibilities that may arise once the chain of custody is broken and to adopt any measures derived from it.
This was agreed by the Plenary in the second part of the ordinary session held this week. The proposal was presented by the Popular Municipal Group and had the support of all the political formations represented in the Porto City Council.
The secretary of the Puerto de la Cruz City Council found the 22 votes cast by mail without counting corresponding to the Electoral table from the La Cúpula Shopping Center, in the La Paz area.
From the Consistory it was explained last Monday that when the Post Office took those votes they were delivered to the responsible for administration and stored in the box with the documentation related to the elections. The same is deposited in the office of the secretary of the City Council and there they stayed. When he went to clean the side table, he found them.
The decision corresponds to the Electoral Board of the Zone, to which the municipal secretary immediately communicated the fact and transferred the votes he found in the dependencies assigned to him.
The PSOE lacked 11 votes to achieve an absolute majority and form the municipal government of Puerto de la Cruz alone. The candidacy for mayor of the socialist Marco gonzalez he got 10 of 21 councilors. The rest of the Plenary was configured by the Portuense Citizen Assembly (ACP), of David Hernández, which fell from 3 to 2; the Popular Party (PP), led by Ángel Montañés, went from 8 to 7 councilors, and Canarian Coalition (CC), which repeated with Sandra Rodríguez as head of the list, kept two councilors. Finally, the socialist Marco González was re-elected mayor by revalidating the pact with the Portuense Citizen Assembly, adding the 10 councilors of the PSOE and the two of the aforementioned formation.
The constitution of the commission of investigation agreed by the Plenary must take place in the coming weeks, according to indicated the municipal sources consulted yesterday.
