the socialist Jose Miguel Rodriguez Fraga He has won the Adeje municipal elections for the tenth time. The secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands has been in power since 1987 and will begin a new term that brings him closer to completing four decades in power. The controversy over the creation of a tourism macro-project in a virgin area of the municipality has marked this last mandate. The social rejection of the complex Cradle of the Soul It led dozens of activists to chain themselves to shovels and aroused a current in Tenerife against the destruction of the territory. The works were paralyzed thanks to the social and scientific mobilization. However, none of this seems to have taken its toll on Fraga.
The mayor of Adeje accepts a home from a company with which he has signed contracts
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The PSOE has obtained 13 councilors in Adeje, one less than in the 2019 elections. The Canarian Coalition has won a representative and will go from occupying four seats in the City Council to five. For its part, the PP maintains its only councilor, just like Podemos.
In recent years, several controversies have come to light that have directly affected the mayor of this tourist enclave in the Canary Islands. In 2017, the opposition warned that “old politics” reigned in Adeje when the mayor handpicked his sister as adviser to the Mayor’s Office. Two years later, the Canarian Coalition told Fraga to convert the City Hall into a “family society” for incorporating his nephew Daniel Melo Rodríguez into the government group as councilor for Transparency.
In May 2022, it came to light through the newspaper Public that the mayor of Adeje allowed his family to build an illegal mansion on a farm next to his. The sister is the owner of this building built on a plot of 3,000 square meters of rustic land and natural protection.
The mayor is also one of the 13 defendants in the Monkey Beach Club case, the criminal case that investigates alleged crimes against the territory for the expansion of the facilities of this place located at the foot of Playa de Troya. It continues to function normally, but is embroiled in significant judicial and administrative problems.
