Coalición Canaria (CC) San Bartolomé qualifies the attitude of the socialist mayor Isidro Pérez during the last ordinary plenary session held by the municipal corporation as "gravely undemocratic" and states that he allegedly prevented a resident from recording the session with his mobile phone.
The Canary nationalist party considers that Isidro Pérez maintained "a shameful intimidating attitude" towards this resident by asking him if he had authorization to make the recording and if he had any kind of connection with any political party or group.
The municipal spokesperson for CC San Bartolomé, David Rocío, describes this attitude of the mayor as a "dictatorial strong-arm tactic" who "not only had the audacity to censor this resident of San Bartolomé but also systematically refuses to broadcast the Town Hall plenary sessions live".
In this regard, Rocío wonders "if this intolerable lack of transparency by Isidro Pérez is due to him having some problem with the residents of San Bartolomé seeing how he behaves in the municipal plenary sessions".
Right to information
Thus, they recall that the Law Regulating the Bases of Local Government establishes that plenary sessions are public, so any citizen can attend them and even record them, in the free democratic exercise of the right to information.
In this regard, for David Rocío it is inadmissible that the mayor systematically censors this fundamental right and that he hides behind saying that he has to request a legal report on whether it is necessary to ask for authorization to record the plenary sessions, thus showing ignorance more typical of a dictator who is uncomfortable with transparency than of a democratic mayor”.
“Why does San Bartolomé not broadcast the plenary sessions live, preventing residents from being direct witnesses of what is debated, what is decided, and how democratically elected public representatives act?”, questions David Rocío, who concludes by recalling that “the Town Hall is not a private preserve of those who govern, but belongs to all the people”.
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