The Canary Coalition Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote will request the appearance in the next Plenary of the president, María Dolores Corujo, and the new CEO of the Tourist Centers, Juan Félix Eugenio, so that he can explain the debt that his partner's company maintains with the CACT, which exceeds 400,000 euros.
In its statement, the CC itself points out that this debt was generated when the PP was in charge of the Tourist Centers, and therefore under the Presidency of Pedro San Ginés. However, in its statement they go back to the dates in which this agency was created, in 2006, and to the moment in which it began to offer excursions to the Centers, whose tickets were paid to the entity at the end of the month.
Thus, although the defaults began years later, they link the name of Juan Félix Eugenio, who was then Minister of Finance of the Cabildo; as well as the one who was president, Manuela Armas; and even Carlos Espino, to point out that the first invoice of the company was issued "four days before the celebration of the Board of Directors in which he also took office as director of the CACT".
The president questioned that no action was taken in time
From the current government group they already responded last Saturday to this controversy, which they consider has been "filtered from the public company itself", which until last Saturday was managed by the CEO appointed by CC, José Juan Lorenzo. "Of course, the Centers will continue to claim that debt through judicial means, but, in addition, the Centers themselves will have to determine the responsibilities incurred by those who have allowed that debt to be generated, irregularly. I find it impossible to understand how the management of the public company, formed by professionals with high remuneration, allows a debt to be generated for a year and a half without proceeding, immediately, to suspend the credit and put in place the necessary steps for its recovery", said María Dolores Corujo in a statement, in which she pledged to "go to the end."
For its part, CC now states that it "shares" the opinion of the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, "to ask for political responsibilities on the matter", but adds that "she would have to ask them -in any case- to her government partner, the Popular Party, which was the one who was then in charge of the CACT when most of the debt was accumulated, but above all she will have to assume those of the PSOE as a party".
And it is that although the Canary Coalition governed with the PP in that period in which the debt was generated and who presided over the Cabildo, maintains that "the serious irregularity is not so much of who has allowed it, but of who has incurred in it; that is, of who has not paid". "So, they should better worry about assuming their own responsibilities and explaining the accumulation of events that have come and will come to light these days and that concern their own party, instead of trying to divert attention from what is truly important", adds CC as a warning.
"There is already even a court order"
In addition, he affirms that since then up to two payment plans have been negotiated, the first through the president of the PP and former director of the Centers, Ástrid Pérez, and the second already with José Juan Lorenzo, and assures that in both cases Juan Félix Eugenio personally participated in the negotiations on behalf of the company, and that both were breached.
In this regard, CC also responds to the president that "it is not necessary for her to now claim the debt judicially as she has announced she will do, since the management of the company already did so when this political organization regained direct control of it and, in fact, there is already a court order for execution in this regard, in response to the claim of more than 570,000 euros between principal, interest and cost forecast, without it being possible to recover a cent of a euro from tickets that were sold and collected by the debtor".
Finally, the representative on the Board of Directors of the Canary Coalition reiterates on behalf of the organization that "it is this type of decisions in the CACT without the slightest decorum and respect, the increase of their own salaries as the first measure of the government, or the appointment of an investigated for corruption denounced by their own partners as Chief of Staff of the Presidency, which drag the dignity of the institution and its public companies".
In addition, he also questions "the lack of respect for the dignity of the people that the president has starred in, without even informing of the dismissal of the previous CEO of the CACT", José Juan Lorenzo, who assures that "he had to find out about it through the media, as did his entire management team".
