The spokesperson for the Popular Party and former mayor of Güímar, Carmen Luisa Castro, has announced that her party will demand this Friday during the celebration of an extraordinary plenary session the return of the money illegally collected, according to a final ruling, by the mayor of Güímar, Gustavo Pérez (CC ); the first deputy mayor Airam Puerta (PSOE); and councilors Juan Delgado (CC) and Cándido Gómez (PSOE).
The Popular Party, the complainant in this litigation, claims to have “forced” the holding of the municipal plenary session this Friday to demand “the refund of the money from 2021 and urges the four councilors to abstain from the vote due to their personal interest in this matter.”
Sentence
The ruling that declared the salaries null and void was issued in 2022 by the Administrative Litigation Court No. 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and affects Airam Puerta, since 06/24/2021; Gustavo Pérez, since 07/1/2021; Cándido Gómez, since 07/12/2021, and Juan Delgado, since 07/12/2021. The City Council presented an appeal, which was not admitted for processing by the Second Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC), this decision which, by not being appealed, has meant that the sentence now becomes final.
The facts prosecuted date back to 2021, when the alternation in the mayor’s office took place (CC ceded the position of mayor to the PSOE), and a new and mandatory agreement on partial and exclusive dedication and remuneration was not approved in plenary session, so the Since then, salaries have been delegitimized.
In this regard, the leader of the PP makes it clear that “neither the four councilors nor the municipal secretary can claim that I did not warn them from the first moment that an illegality was being committed, but they never fully carried out the agreement that would cover those salaries. ”. Carmen Luisa Castro maintains that her lawyers in this case and her jurisprudence indicate that the money improperly received should be returned to the public coffers.
