The Court of Instruction Number 2 of Arrecife has admitted the extension of the complaint of Juan Manuel Sosa for an alleged falsification of the group's regulations to expel him and has charged all the CC councilors of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
On May 27, David de La Hoz, Migdalia Machín, Domingo Cejas, Samuel Martín, Óscar Pérez, Tania Ramón and Pedro San Ginés will have to testify for alleged falsification in a public document, the latter charged in numerous corruption cases.
This case was initiated by the complaint filed by Juan Manuel Sosa against Pedro San Ginés accusing him of a crime of coercion. According to the complaint filed on May 13 by Sosa, San Ginés would have urged him to resign from his position as councilor of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, threatening him with the filing of a lawsuit for continuing to collect his salary as spokesman for the Canarian Coalition.
According to the account made by Sosa in court, San Ginés summoned him to his house in Arrecife, where he showed him on a laptop the text of the lawsuit he threatened to file, and that ended with the request for up to six years in prison and the requirement to reimburse the 85,000 euros allegedly collected unduly, an extreme that has been repeatedly denied by the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands.
Subsequently, and always according to Sosa's complaint, San Ginés gave him a second document to read with alleged news that would be published in two national newspapers if he did not resign from his position as councilor of the Cabildo before the celebration of the Cabildo plenary session that took place on Friday, May 14, 2021.
Extension of the demand
Having not resigned from his position, the next action was to process Sosa's expulsion from the political group. There were a total of three attempts. The last of these occurred under the Regulations of the political group, the only reason for which the case could be based. According to Sosa, "this would be a falsehood, since the aforementioned regulation does not exist, but it was artificially created to justify his expulsion", which "would imply a crime of falsification of a public document and another of violation of fundamental rights".
Now, the Court admits the extension of the complaint and in an order dated May 12, it quotes verbatim that it must be "determined whether the regulation of the CC-PNC group, Cabildo and La Graciosa was an ad hoc creation aimed at artificially substantiating the expulsion of the complainant."
To this end, among other things, it has already ordered that different documentation be required from both the secretary of the Cabildo and the parties that make up the group, the Canarian Coalition and the Canarian Nationalist Party, so that they provide their statutes and communicate whether they were formally notified of the alleged approval of the group's regulations, and if so, on what date it was.
