Coalición Canaria assures that the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, "intends" to pay with public funds "the more than 100,000 euros of undue charges" of the councilor Juan Manuel Sosa, whom they have been accusing for months of having been charging as released by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands when he could not do so, as he is no longer the spokesperson for the CC group.
"The new chapter that has just been written of the well-known 'Sosa case' could not be more scandalous and unworthy for politics and public administrations", the party states in a statement, in which it maintains that "as everything is illegal since December 2019, it is now intended to use an adaptation of the Cabildos Law of last August as the 'Sosa Law' to cover the undue charges of the councilor who defected". Specifically, they believe that Corujo intends to apply that adaptation of the law "retroactively, or what is the same, that it is the Cabildo with public funds that returns to the Government of the Canary Islands" the salaries that it paid to Sosa.
To do this, they point out that it will do so "under the protection of the 'legal wash' that is the report of the former general director of Public Function", against whom they also lash out in their statement. "Let us not forget that this is a public position of free political designation that has issued up to three different reports that have been progressively adjusted to the true intentions of both governments, so that it is the Cabildo that returns what corresponds to the aforementioned councilor to reinstate", the nationalists allege.
“Over the past five months, the top leaders of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Government have been looking for a formula that would allow them to justify this situation, and when they could not find it, they seem to have opted for this unusual proposal,” they add. In the opinion of CC, the one who should return that money is Sosa himself, "in addition to other responsibilities being cleared up".
In addition, they denounce that the president still does not deliver the file of this case, which they requested on August 12, despite the fact that "the Transparency Commissioner has communicated to her the obligation to do so". “We hope it will allow us to accredit this kind of political and institutional plot perpetrated to allegedly cover up a very serious irregularity committed by the public official Juan Manuel Sosa, with the political complicity of the governments of the Cabildo and the Canary Islands,” they add.
On the other hand, they link this situation to the fact that Corujo has spent more than three months without calling plenary sessions and that she has "suspended up to three times the ordinary plenary session of September, where she had to appear, at the request of Coalición Canaria, to clarify the multiple questions that remain to be answered in relation to this serious administrative irregularity and explain what her intentions are". In any case, CC affirms that it trusts "that the General Interventions of the Autonomous Community and the Cabildo will stop this legal nonsense and attack on democracy".
