The Popular Party (PP) of Güímar, in Tenerife, has asked the Administrative Litigation Court No. 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the forced execution of the sentence, firm since last October, which declares void the salaries received since mid-2021 by the mayor, Gustavo Pérez (CC), the first deputy mayor, Airam Puerta (PSOE) and two other councilors of the municipal government, Cándido Gómez (PSOE) and Juan Delgado (CC).
According to the popular ones, Justice considers that they received their salaries “without legal coverage” for not having submitted their remuneration and exclusive dedication regime to a new plenary agreement in the middle of the term (when the change in the mayor’s office took place). And this despite the PP’s warnings about the “flagrant irregularity” they were committing.
The spokesperson for the popular parties and former mayor, Carmen Luisa Castro, affirms that with this new initiative before the courts she fulfills what she announced at the end of the City Council plenary session on October 27, convened at the request of her political group once the decision was final. sentence, given “the evidence that there was no will to comply with this judicial resolution.”
The PP remembers that in that plenary session it defended “the return of the money unduly received during the entire second half of the last mandate, but CC, PSOE and Unidas Sí Podemos refused, reducing this illegality to only the two months reported at the time, knowingly that all remunerations are void for two more years; and furthermore, for the government team, it can be remedied with the mere justification that during that period the accused provided their services at the City Council.”
In said plenary session, the PP continues, “the four councilors affected by this ruling failed to comply with their unquestionable legal duty to abstain from voting, despite the obvious personal interest they had in this matter.” Therefore, in the opinion of the lawyers representing the PP in this litigation (the LexA3 law firm), the agreement adopted in the plenary session would be “tainted by nullity”, since these votes were decisive in guiding the meaning of the agreement adopted.
The leader of the PP links the illegality of salaries in the last term with the fact that both Gustavo Pérez and Airam Puerta had established an exclusive dedication regime since 2019 at a percentage that was not permitted by law and to which they would have had to resign if a new agreement in this regard has been fully reached.
Furthermore, Carmen Luisa Castro maintains that this judicial litigation is what motivated the tripartite government team to raise its salary by “a whopping” 27% at the beginning of this new mandate, in June 2023, an “immoral” increase with which they intend to “obtain from the Güimarero people the money with which, if necessary, they would have to return what was unduly received.”
The former mayor, winner of the last municipal elections with 44% of the votes, also denounces that the plenary session on October 27 was broadcast live but the recording was later deleted from the Facebook page of the Güímar City Council.
