The murga Las Enraladas challenges the XXXIII Arrecife Murgas Contest because they claim to have detected "a tie in the scores obtained in the performance on Tuesday, February 14, but only one of the groups with the same score passed to the next phase, held this Wednesday." "We do not agree that the rules continue to be violated and that there is not a decent contest that lives up to the work we do in the Carnival groups," they criticize from the murga.
According to the group, "on February 14, the Phase was held at the Arrecife Fairgrounds at 9:00 p.m. which, according to the draw held on January 11, 2023 at the Arrecife Civic Center, was carried out based on established rules." The following day, Wednesday, February 15, in the jury's deliberation of passes to the final, it was announced that Los Tebletuos, Los Simplones, Las Vacilonas, Los Desahauciados, Las Inadaptadas and Los Tity Roys would advance to the final.
"This Wednesday, around 09:20 hours, the minutes were delivered to them "with the scores obtained by the murgas" and, "according to the rules, those six with the best scores pass," they point out from Las Enraladas.
"We detected a tie in the sixth position and we do not understand what the reason for the tiebreaker is and where it is justified and in what part of the rules it states what the procedure is in case this occurs," they criticize from the murga. "Given this position, we went to the Arrecife City Council this Thursday, after learning of these scores. We spoke with the staff of the council and they informed us that they were already aware of what had happened and were waiting for the secretary of the jury, Don Valentín Fernández," they add.
According to the murga, "Fernández tells them that he considers that they were guided in carrying out the tiebreaker in the score without removing the maximum and minimum" and it is there where Las Enraladas find "the error" since "the rules state that the maximum and minimum score does not count."
Subsequently, the murga registered a document at the City Council in which they explained what happened and then had a conversation with the Councilor for Festivities, Encarna Páez, via telephone. "We came to the conclusion that, in order not to affect the contest, we should be the seventh murga to compete as long as the rest of the colleagues from the different murgas agreed," explain Las Enraladas.
"We contacted the rest of the Murgas and the remaining eight murgas agreed that we should be the seventh murga to participate. However, from Las Enraladas we believe that this decision should have been made from the council itself and that they should have been the ones to solve this error," argues the murga.
On the afternoon of February 16, "the councilor for festivities contacted Laura Armas," a member of the Board of Directors of the murga, and told her that on the morning of February 17 she would contact the different members of the jury "to hold a show of hands vote and choose who would be the finalist murga of the two affected."
"The councilor commented that she would speak with the legal cabinet of the City Council, who said that she could not carry it out since there would be a breach of the rules, so we recorded that the rules have already been breached," they point out from Las Enraladas, who add that they do not agree with "this proposal to correct a serious error that affects the sixth classified murga, in this case, the murga Las Inadaptadas."
