The seven CC councilors in the Cabildo have requested the judge of the Court of Instruction Number 2 of Arrecife to postpone their statement for the alleged falsification of the group's regulations to expel Juan Manuel Sosa. According to what they have argued in writing, they ask to postpone it "to another later date that allows them to have knowledge of the investigated facts with sufficient time to prepare their defense".
David de La Hoz, Pedro San Ginés, Migdalia Machín, Domingo Cejas, Samuel Martín, Óscar Pérez and Tania Ramón were to testify as investigated for alleged falsification in a public document on May 27, after the Court admitted the extension of the complaint by Juan Manuel Sosa.
This case began with the complaint that Juan Manuel Sosa filed 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 that 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.
Expansion 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 was artificially created to justify his expulsion", which "would involve 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 if 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 if they were formally notified of the alleged approval of the group's regulations, and if so, on what date it was.
