The head of the Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife, Ricardo Fiestras, has refused to clarify to the PSOE why he has rejected its request to appear as a popular accusation in the case that judged the hiring of the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud to defend the interests of Inalsa in its bankruptcy phase, while Pedro San Ginés was president of the Cabildo.
The Chamber has indicated that it does not give rise to clarify the order that was issued on November 21, 2024. Meanwhile, the PSOE can file an appeal to this judicial resolution.
The senator of Coalición Canaria, Pedro San Ginés, has positively valued this new provision of the Court by understanding that “it represents a new setback” to the aspiration of the PSOE to appear as a popular accusation in an "untimely" manner in the case that was filed against him by the then president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote Dolores Corujo.
After the dismissal of this case, both by the Supreme Court to Pedro San Ginés and by the Criminal Court number 4 of Lanzarote to the rest of the accused, the Federal Executive of the PSOE, "with the express approval of the general secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands, the current minister Ángel Víctor Torres”, has assured the senator Pedro San Ginés, requested his appearance in this judicial case, but the judge dismissed his claims due to the “lack of any legitimate interest” and in order to “avoid possible spurious, fraudulent or dilatory interests”, as stated in the judicial order.
The current senator for Coalición Canaria has defended that "the PSOE never showed interest in appearing during the years that the instruction lasted, until the dismissal occurred".
Faced with this judicial rejection, the PSOE then requested a clarification of the judicial order, which has been resolved with the present judicial provision, in which the Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife de Lanzarote denies the PSOE any clarification, ratifying itself in all the terms of its dismissal order. In addition, the nationalist senator specifies, they also invite them to file an appeal to which they are legally entitled, but then warns that they only have it against the resolution that denies their appearance, not to the file and background of the case of which they were never a part.
Now, the case is pending the national leadership of the PSOE deciding to appeal, if their regional and island general secretaries, Ángel Víctor Torres and Dolores Corujo, Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory of the Government of Spain and national deputy, respectively, request it again. In this context, the senator Pedro San Ginés has pointed out that “one does not see cynicism of such magnitude in political life every day, an unparalleled cynicism on the part of the Canary and state leaderships of the PSOE, now defending that political parties cannot appear as a popular accusation in a judicial investigation”.
“But that same thing that they now condemn is exactly what they have just done to me”, the senator Pedro San Ginés has stressed “and the most grotesque thing is that they did not even do it in the judicial investigation phase, but once the case was dismissed, showing that it was always a complaint for partisan interest from the public institution that they presided over and that they used to try to eliminate a political rival”.