The Coalición Canaria group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has accused the Socialist Party of "intending to hire four new management positions in the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism by hand."
Thus, during the last Board of Directors held last Friday, the nationalists voted against the incorporation into the organizational chart of the Local Business Public Entity of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of two new assistant managers and two new coordinators, "a proposal by the socialist president, María Dolores Corujo, and the CEO of the CACT, Juan Félix Eugenio, which represents an economic cost of 172,000 euros".
According to CC, the president herself stated during the Board of Directors session that "these four new management positions will be freely appointed and for this she had the vote in favor of the government group of the Cabildo (PSOE - PP) and the abstention of the representative of the works council.
"This is unnecessary. The company has a complete organizational structure prepared to face all the challenges entrusted to it. All people have been selected through public processes and not by hand as the PSOE and the new CEO, Juan Félix Eugenio, now intend to do," said the CC councilor in the Cabildo and representative of this political formation in the Board of Directors of the EPEL-CACT, Samuel Martín
"Payment of political favors"
For Martín, "it is curious that those who criticized that there were too many managers, now create four new positions at the highest level and paralyze the internal selection procedures, harming the interests of 47 CACT workers who have been provisionally admitted."
"It is clear that the PSOE does not like selection processes based on merit and ability, but prefers to create positions that they can handle at will. Or, what is the same, the payment of political favors by the island's president with everyone's money," the nationalist emphasizes.
Against the withdrawal of legal appeals
Likewise, in the aforementioned Board of Directors, Coalición Canaria explains that, through its representative in said body, voted against the CACT immediately submitting the dismissal of all cassation appeals to withdraw the legal appeals for the transportation, laundry and availability bonuses for the vacation months in the years 2014, 2015 and 2016.
In this regard, despite the fact that the TSJC has already ruled in favor of the workers, the nationalists state that "the legal services in labor matters of the entity, subscribed by public tender, have so far maintained that the cassation appeal is likely to be admitted and that it could prosper, due to the fact that said bonuses are not independent of the personal supplement and due to the incontestable fact that the amounts of said bonuses were paid within the personal supplement in the years 2015 and 2016".
"It is a real shame that once again the PSOE, due to its partisan interests, renounces rigor in the management of public funds, which is precisely what has led the CACT to the ruin from which we have already had to get them out on several occasions", laments the CC councilor, who criticizes that "the PSOE and the CEO of the CACT, with an erroneous report that ignores that in 2014 the Entity paid the aforementioned bonuses in the vacations of each worker and another report that does not enter into the substance of the matter, limiting itself to asserting the probability that the appeals will be inadmissible, have decided with the vote in favor of the government group of the Cabildo (PSOE - PP), the representative of the works council and Podemos to withdraw said legal appeals.
"We have to defend the public interest above the particular interest and not pay some bonuses that have already been paid and let justice take its course," asserts CC councilor Samuel Martín. "It is clear that this island government headed by the PSOE is not willing to defend the general interest, we see how it worries about a hypothetical scenario in which a maximum of 300,000 euros will have to be paid or not, but they still do not say where the money that the partner of the current CEO appointed by the PSOE took," concludes the nationalist councilor.
