Coalición Canaria, Partido Popular and Alternativa Ciudadana abandoned the plenary hall of the Tías Town Hall in an ordinary session scheduled for Tuesday. They did so after requesting the mayor to postpone it "because we had not been summoned properly and we did not have the necessary information", says José Francisco Hernández. The Partido Popular councillor in the municipality also comments that the opposition will jointly explain the reasons for this abandonment.
For its part, the Government Group has described this decision as a "carnival and electoral attitude of the opposition", since it assures that there were no formal or content-related reasons to abandon the plenary hall. Furthermore, it argues that the sit-in is due to a strategy by the opposition to "create a false image of the Tías Town Hall and prevent the deadlines for the execution of the planned works from being met".
However, José Francisco Hernández explains that the plenary session should have been held on Carnival Tuesday and that it was postponed because it was a public holiday in the municipality. "As it is an ordinary plenary session, the mayor had the obligation to summon the spokespersons to find a date", explains the Partido Popular councillor in Tías. A meeting that, despite being called on 11 February, did not take place because it was suspended by the Government Group. "So we waited for the mayor to call us again to hold that board of spokespersons and choose the date for the plenary session".
Hernández also assures that he found out that the plenary session was going to be held on Tuesday due to a phone call from the Coalición Canaria councillor to inform him that the Information Committee prior to the plenary session had been called. "In the end, the call for the plenary session was delivered to me on Sunday", explains the Partido Popular councillor. This same situation was also recorded in the other opposition parties of the Tías Town Hall, so they decided to ask the mayor to postpone the plenary session. "The mayor did not agree to this because there was an urgent matter that could not be debated another day, we agreed to approve that point but requested that the others be withdrawn and as he did not allow it, we left the session".
The Government Group, however, assures that the members of the opposition did have time to study the issues on the agenda, since "they were sufficiently well known, since most of them were merely extensions of files initiated in other plenary sessions". Furthermore, it reproaches the attitude of the opposition as "reckless, anti-democratic and antisocial", as it will result in a delay in the provision of services for citizens.
Municipal Sports Centre
Despite the abandonment of the plenary session by the opposition, the plenary session of the Tías Town Hall continued. In this way, the Government Group has approved a fiscal ordinance that regulates the Property Tax, which states that people who have the payment of receipts domiciled will have a 5% bonus. In addition, the plenary session also ratified the file for the concession of the Sports Centre, so the work on this facility will be carried out by open procedure and will have a base budget for bidding of almost 9,000,000 euros.
