The Canary Coalition has described as "an authentic dishonesty and shamelessness" that the secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote, Dolores Corujo, has denounced that the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort (CC) prevents her from attending the plenary sessions, setting the sessions on the same days that she has to attend the Congress of Deputies, since she is also a parliamentarian.
The political formation has criticized Dolores Corujo for "questioning a simple change of date of the plenary sessions of the Cabildo when she, being president, flagrantly violated the law by not holding, at least, more than a dozen ordinary sessions," denounced the island secretary of the nationalist formation, Pedro San Ginés.
San Ginés has insisted that "it is the height of political cynicism" and has assured that Corujo supposedly "failed to comply in her mandate with what she now denounces, since between June 2019 and April 2022 she only held five ordinary plenary sessions on the date established by the Organic Regulations of the Cabildo, that is, the last Friday of the month."
San Ginés accuses Corujo of failing to comply with the sessions during her term
The island secretary continued pointing out that "the PSOE cannot give lessons of any kind when Corujo herself starred in much more serious breaches." In this sense, he has gone back to 2023, when he has assured that during the Board of Spokespersons of February 24, 2023, the then general secretary of the Plenary informed and requested that it be recorded in the minutes that "eleven plenary sessions are pending and ending the month of February twelve, all this without taking into account those suspended by the pandemic."
San Ginés added that "not only did she skip the holding of ordinary plenary sessions, but in four years of mandate she only held a single Debate on the State of the Island, in 2022, again failing to comply with the Organic Regulations of the Cabildo that requires it to be convened annually," he said.
He insists that they "bought" Juan Manuel Sosa
The island secretary of CC has accused Corujo of "committing all those infractions of the Regulations, but for three years she governed in minority with the support of a defector, Juan Manuel Sosa, who was bought with public funds from the Government of the Canary Islands, which now will have to return in addition with judicial condemnation in costs for appealing the return in his attempt to refuse to reinstate it. Dolores Corujo would do well to remain silent in the face of her own record of breaches and illegalities."
Thus, San Ginés has assured that Corujo "was the president who most violated the rule and in a much more serious way, although it should be remembered that it was not due to excess of work: she was the most inactive, not to say a thicker word, both as president of the Cabildo and as a deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, and she continues to be as a deputy in the Congress."
The political formation has accused Dolores Coruoj of "alarming lack of effort and political work" of Dolores Corujo. According to San Ginés, during her time as mayor of San Bartolomé and deputy (2015-2019) she presented barely 108 initiatives in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, compared to the 339 of Oswaldo Betancort, being mayor of Teguise and also deputy in the Canarian Parliament (2019-2023), that is, both with equal positions.
Likewise, in the first two years of this legislature, the political formation has assured that Oswaldo Betancort "has already presented 87 initiatives in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, combining this work with the Presidency of the Cabildo, while Corujo only presented 14 in the four years of the past legislature, being then, like Betancort at present, president of the first island corporation and deputy in the Canarian Parliament."
At the same time he has insisted that Corujo "only presented 23 initiatives in the Congress of Deputies, compared to the 261 of the deputy Cristina Valido and the 132 presented by Pedro San Ginés in the Senate."
The double parliamentary condition
For his part, the spokesman of CC in the Cabildo, Samuel Martín, has also pointed out that the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, also maintains a double parliamentary condition, like the socialist deputy and councilor of the first island institution. And it is logical that the plenary sessions are scheduled according to the parliamentary agenda of the president of the Cabildo, who holds the highest island representation. "In any case, the PSOE deputy in Madrid can choose: either be in the plenary sessions of the Cabildo of Lanzarote representing the interests of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, or follow the dictates of Sánchez in Madrid. Let her decide where she wants to be and what is more important to her: Madrid or Lanzarote," Martín pointed out.
Legal actions against Corujo
On the other hand, San Ginés has indicated that the Canary Coalition "never wanted to judicialize this institutional illegality, so as not to further poison the political debate, but after the hypocritical complaint of Corujo, from CC we reserve as many legal actions as we deem appropriate."
Finally, he has insisted that "Dolores Corujo not only systematically did precisely what she now denounces appealing to the regulations and plenary agreements on the day of holding plenary sessions that she skipped so many times, but something much more serious: the non-celebration of more than a dozen plenary sessions, flagrantly violating the legality and twisting the democratic norms. If we are to judicialize, what she did does not prescribe, and of course it is infinitely more serious than moving the date of a session to adjust it to the parliamentary agenda of the president of the Cabildo, as she almost always did herself," he concludes.