"It's not that it's difficult, it's impossible. You can't govern with a person who has participated in these events." This is how the CC councilor in the Teguise City Council, Daniel Morales, referred to the continuity of the pact between his party and the PSOE, in case the socialists do not take measures against councilor Lourdes Cabrera. Although he admits that this decision does not correspond to him, he believes that the PSOE should dismiss its councilor, after she acknowledged in court that she "participated or provided" Morales' emails "to third parties."
Morales has "first-hand information" on the matter, since he was the one who filed a complaint about the leak of his emails. "I know her statement first-hand, I know what she said, and after reading it, I cannot govern with her like that. When I read the statement, it seemed like an Almodóvar movie," he said.
While the PSOE remains silent regarding Cabrera's statement last Friday as an accused for an alleged crime of revealing secrets, the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, and Morales himself have asked this party to take measures. "The distrust is total and absolute," Morales acknowledged in reference to Cabrera.
However, the councilor has assured that CC intends to "maintain the pact with the PSOE", since the problem is not with the party "but with a person who is within the PSOE". "They will be the ones who have to act. In case they do not act, that is when CC will take the appropriate measures," Morales said in statements to La Voz.
Morales has not personally asked Cabrera for explanations, as he has preferred "not to speak with those involved" and deal with this matter with his lawyer and in the Courts. "I am going to give the prudent and necessary time for a decision to be made politically, if not to make it myself," he indicated.
The CC councilor wanted to make it clear that in the PSOE in Teguise there are three councilors and with two of them the treatment is "fantastic". "The problem I have is with one person, what happens is that she represents some initials. If those initials do not take reprisals against their undisciplined councilor, who has lacked loyalty and respect towards a colleague... Obviously, we are giving them a prudent margin so that they can act and their bodies can decide," he stated.
"What is needed is a dismissal"
For Morales, the only thing that fits in this situation is the dismissal of Cabrera. "We cannot govern with a person who is deputy mayor and who has done that. The first thing she had to do is have the decency to resign, because the lack of respect towards a colleague is shameful. Given that this is not the case, I imagine that the PSOE will have to decide what it considers appropriate. The PSOE should dismiss her, of course, because she has lacked respect, truth, camaraderie, to maintain a pact. She has violated all the harmony and stability of an institution for interests that I still do not know."
The CC councilor, who had asked for prudence before Cabrera's statement in court last Friday, has assured that after she testified he has felt "betrayed". "It is a betrayal and a political outrage," he denounced. "She has confirmed that she did participate and passed the documents to the local police and that she did make illicit use of my documents. It is a disappointment and a tremendous betrayal," he stated.
Morales has already found it "difficult" to sit at the same table this Monday as the socialist councilor, in a meeting of the government group in which this issue has not been discussed, but rather the agenda of the Plenary session that will be held this Tuesday. For this reason, the councilor trusts in a quick response from the PSOE because "you can't act like nothing is happening, because it is happening". "We have no problems with the PSOE, but with a councilor from the PSOE," he insisted.
