The Popular Party has abstained in the vote on this Monday's motion presented by the PSOE in which they ask that the Arrecife City Council not continue with the judicial procedure with regard to the investigation by the Court of Accounts. Alfredo Mendoza, spokesperson for the PSOE in the Arrecife City Council, has asked that it be recorded in the minutes that the vote on this proposal was individual.
For their part, Coalición Canaria and PSOE have voted in favor of this motion, while Vox, along with the PP, have abstained. There have been no votes against, so the motion has been approved.
As you will recall, the Court of Accounts considers her allegedly responsible for an accounting deficit worth 88,000 euros of public funds from the Arrecife City Council, during her time as Social Welfare councilor of the city between 2019 and 2023. Thus, the former councilors of that same area, Eva de Anta and Victoria Sande, both from the PSOE, are also cited as responsible parties for the same act of preliminary proceedings.
On July 15, 2025, the socialist party presented a motion that was approved and in which demanded the mayor to send to the Court of Accounts a hidden report issued by the municipal legal services. In it, no unjustified harm to public funds is accredited and it states that the aid "was granted with a social purpose according to technical criteria and that no fraud or serious negligence has been demonstrated, in addition to the fact that, in its case, the deficiencies would be in the organizational scope, not in the accounting one."
At this Monday's plenary session, the PSOE of Arrecife has requested that the capital city council "adopt a coherent institutional position" with the content of the municipal legal report, since "if there is no accounting impairment it is neither proportionate nor in accordance with public interest to maintain actions that prolong a procedure with reputational and economic cost which, furthermore, has been used in public debate as an element of political confrontation".
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has requested the PSOE to separate one of the criteria from point three of the motion so that the secretary can prepare a report and it can be brought back to another ordinary plenary session. De León has pointed out that point two includes "the request to the general secretariat of the plenary for the urgent issuance of a report", while point three refers to "agreeing on an exercise of actions by the City Council", which is why he has indicated that for "legal certainty" it is better to wait and for the secretary to prepare it first, since the Court of Auditors has also requested it.