The deputy spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, has denounced the actions of the first island corporation in what he has called “an apparent institutional and judicial conspiracy due to the fact that, from March 2022 and until today, I have been denied a right enshrined in Article 23 of the Constitution, which is to exercise my position as a public official on equal terms with the rest of the elected officials of the corporation.”
San Ginés has made these statements after learning that the Cabildo of Lanzarote has authorized, just twenty days before the end of the term, the delivery of a mobile phone to carry out his work as an island councilor, despite having requested it more than a year ago. At that time, the general secretary of the plenary session personally informed San Ginés that, according to judicial instructions – by email or via an unknown route – he had to request a new device and a copy of the card through the court.
The nationalist deputy spokesperson has explained that, after the seizure of all his devices in March 2022, on several occasions he addressed the Court of Instruction number 2 (DOC.1) explaining that the Cabildo did not give him a new mobile device, nor a duplicate of his card, according to the secretary of the plenary session, by order of the court of instruction nº2 directed by Jerónimo Alonso, and that the Cabildo urged him by virtue of said order to request it through the court itself, “which I did, expressly requesting that my device be delivered to me, or, failing that, the Cabildo be authorized to make a duplicate of my card.”
"However, and despite the fact that for more than thirteen months the Cabildo has denied him both things for the reasons already explained, last Friday, May 5, and after requesting the Legal Services to give me in writing the reasons why my rights were being violated, apparently they have issued a report, which Dolores Corujo refuses to give me, by virtue of which the existence of any instruction from the court to deny me the requested device is now denied” and which has resulted in a new device finally being provided to him through the Information Technology and Communications Department of the corporation just twenty days before the end of the term, “yes, with a new phone number and not with a duplicate of my card as is also my right and as the rest of the investigated have.”
So much so that one of the other investigated had his original card returned by the Civil Guard itself on the same day it was seized, after the pertinent download and copy of his data; and the other investigated immediately made a duplicate of her card requesting it from her telephone company without the slightest problem or judicial objection, which constitutes an obvious and unfair comparative grievance unjustifiable from any point of view.”
In any case, for Pedro San Ginés, what is “surprising about this whole situation is that, from the first moment, the Cabildo of Lanzarote argued that it was denying him the right he has as a public official by a court order and that now the Cabildo itself denies the existence of the aforementioned order.”
However, San Ginés has clarified that there is a judicial order (DOC. 2) that says verbatim: “it is surprising that the investigated has requested the Cabildo to provide him with a duplicate of said card, and did so knowing the existence of a criminal case declared secret. The above could be interpreted as a measure to obstruct the investigation by the investigated.”
In addition, he says “that the response of the court to what is a right, was to issue an intimidating letter (DOC.3) to the secretary of the Cabildo of Lanzarote to provide a copy of the administrative file derived from the request made by the investigated Pedro San Ginés referring to the return or obtaining of a copy of the telephone card of the terminal owned by the Cabildo, as well as information on the date on which the terminal and the telephone card in question were provided, and whether another terminal or card had been provided.”
Finally, San Ginés has reiterated that “the rest of the devices have not been returned to me by the court either, despite the fact that the Prosecutor's Office was in favor of it, once the Civil Guard downloaded all the data that was in them, nor have the passwords to my email or social networks been restored; given that the Court of Instruction number 2, directed by Jerónimo Alonso, after a year without resources even for my basic maintenance, only unlocked the availability of my accounts and did so forced by the Provincial Court.”