SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 19. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Avante La Laguna Municipal Group, to which the Town Planning councillor, Santiago Pérez – also a senator for the PSOE – belongs, has issued a statement this Friday in which it defends the legality of the contracts signed by the Rural Development area and links the complaint filed by the non-assigned councilor, Alfredo Gómez, before the Supreme Court, to an “inexcusable negligence” of the former secretary of the Plenary.
From Avante they wield a report from the head of the Service of the Area of Promotion and Local Development of La Laguna in which he points out that the former secretary’s report “confuses and simply identifies” the existence of two decrees in the same procedure of each contract with the existence of two contracts.
Thus, they indicate that it is a “serious error” by the former secretary to add up all the decrees as if they were awards of different contracts to reach the erroneous conclusion that the legal maximum for minor contracts had been exceeded — more than a dozen for an amount close to the 200,000 euros–
Along these lines, they point out that “there is no resolution issued against legal reports or Intervention in Rural Development”, and both in this area and in that of Housing or Urban Planning, the instruction issued by the delegate councilor, and shared by those who said areas, “has been that of absolute respect for the legality of contracts”.
The report of the head of service, made public by Avante, points out that sometimes there may be two decrees on the same matter but they are not two contract awards but other circumstances, such as the allocation of payment to a subsequent budget year; the rectification of an error or the transfer of a contract from one area to another because a posteriori it appears more convenient for it to be processed by it.
From Avante they also indicate that the Rural Development area “has been practically created” by the current Government “and is being managed with great success by Aitor López”, unlike what happened at the time of the management of the Canary Islands Coalition, “that the used to pay party expenses or for verbal contracts without the slightest procedure, which has given rise to judicial pronouncements condemning the City Council”.
