The CC spokesperson in the Arrecife City Council, Echedey Eugenio, has announced that he will request an extraordinary plenary session to address the Ginory case, since, among other things, he denounces that part of the municipal file has “disappeared”. In addition, he considers it necessary to request an independent expert report on the opportunity that the Consortium lost by not presenting the revaluation of the Ginory plot before the expropriation court in 2010, under the government of the PP mayor Cándido Reguera and with Felipe Fernández Camero as the Consortium's lawyer.
Eugenio has stated that in that Plenary he will ask for explanations for the disappearance of part of the file, and also a “clarification on various circumstances that concern the property”. In addition, he demands that the mayor, Ástrid Pérez (PP,) appear at the session to explain “where she obtained the data on the savings that, according to her, the request for a loan of 27 million euros represents”.
Likewise, the nationalists will ask Pérez to also clarify “the statements made in various media outlets about a municipal technician who advised against appealing the resolution of the Canary Islands forced expropriation court”.
“We understand that there are statements that cannot be made so lightly”, Eugenio stated, emphasizing that the first of the points, the assessment of commissioning an independent expert report, was already proposed at the time by the PP itself.
“We'll see what they vote for now”, he emphasizes, while insisting that “the PP will have to explain why it is condemning the citizens of Arrecife to pay 27 million euros for 400 parking spaces. The most expensive in Europe, 67,500 euros per space”, he underlined.
A gap in the file between 2010 and 2013
Throughout the press conference offered this Wednesday to explain the situation of the Ginory plot file, Echedey Eugenio has taken a tour that starts in the 80s, “when the City Council de facto occupied a plot that was not its own, under the mandate of the PSOE”.
Later, in 1996, under a PIL mandate, the Arrecife City Council made its last modification of the General Plan in force and included this plot as a green area, causing a legal dispute to be generated with the property, which concluded with a ruling in 2003 (governing the PIL) where the court declared that consolidated urban land, which forced the City Council to a forced expropriation.
In 2006, the property claimed that forced expropriation and there was a first resolution assessing a fair price of more than 31 million euros. The City Council won this ruling with a PSOE government, but in 2010 the property again urged the revaluation of that plot and a fair price of 20 million is set.
“This is where the problem begins. The City Council does not appeal and that price of 20 million euros is consolidated as firm”, emphasizes the CC-PNC spokesperson.
As Eugenio explained, “the PP, which is the one governing at that time in the City Council, does not appeal and therefore this last valuation becomes firm”. However, the owner of the plot does appeal, again claiming the 31 million euros.
“In 2012, it is the only time in which CC appears as responsible in this file, and it is precisely when they defend municipal interests, managing to return to 20 million”, the nationalist councilor underlined.
No reports on the convenience of the loan
Faced with the situation generated and the request for an extraordinary loan by the Government Group, which is incorporated into the municipal budget, CC-PNC decided to request the Ginory file to study it and see the legal possibilities. However, Eugenio assures that “despite the fact that the mayor announced access to the file in the plenary session, the reality is that there was never the slightest intention”.
After a legal requirement, the nationalists claim that they managed to “finally have access, at which point they discover that part of the documentation has disappeared”. Specifically, they assure that “none of the municipal actions from 2010 to 2013 appear in the file”.
“Someone has made the part of the file disappear in which it appears that responsibilities could be determined regarding why the appeal had not been filed at the time”, he clarifies.
“It must also be remembered that the plot in question comes from two plots that are not adjacent, that there is no title that proves ownership and that 27 million euros are going to be paid for a plot with 400 parking spaces”, CC adds.
“The mayor said in the plenary session that with this loan operation to pay the property in one go, interest is saved because the banks are going to lend the money at 0%. But there is no treasury report forecasting the bank interest”, assures the CC-PNC spokesperson, who concluded the press conference emphasizing that “this financial operation that the Arrecife City Council intends, under the direction of the PP, implies a municipal debt of 52% which, among other things, blocks financing policies for European projects, which establish measures for healthy entities”.
