The Second Deputy Mayor, Urban Planning, Roads and Works, Cleaning and Mobile Park of the Yaiza City Council, Jonathan Lemes, has presented this Friday, March 3, his resignation from the position of councilor and all his positions due to "irreconcilable differences" with the mayor, Óscar Noda, related to the management of public resources, where he denounces "waste" in different areas without "anything being done to avoid them."
The councilor's decision comes hours after, on the afternoon of this Thursday, he voted against the point brought by the municipal government to the plenary session in which it was intended to approve a credit recognition of more than 120,000 euros, with the objection of the auditor, from a item of the festivals department that had exceeded the 363,000 euros budgeted for the same purpose by that amount. This expense had the objection of the City Council's auditor in which he states that "the appropriate retention and expense proposal has not been processed, thus omitting the procedure established by the regulations for the execution of municipal expenses that involves the use of municipal public funds. (...) The need to cease this way of acting is reiterated in this report."
Lemes believes that this was the straw that broke the camel's back when he saw that "they want to give a letter of nature to uncontrolled expenses in the City Council and that the mayor does nothing to avoid it and give the impression that he supports these behaviors." Jonatan had previously shown his opposition to the waste in the supply of irrigation water, which the opposition was denouncing, and the expenses of thousands of euros for a councilor's mobile phone while he was on vacation outside the island, among other irregularities.
Jonathan Lemes was in "a difficult situation" in the government group since at the end of last year he refused to support the mayor in his attempt to "bypass the statutes of the Unidos por Yaiza (UPY) party to take control of it, leaving the majority of the members out of the organization and favor his election as president and control it to his liking." Jonathan's attitude was criticized by his government partners who retreated to the mayor's interests and "began to stop counting on me for any municipal action other than those of my councilorship and in this way it becomes impossible to share government tasks."
