The senator appointed by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands Pedro San Ginés (CC) has offered on the morning of this Thursday a press conference after it became known on the afternoon of this past Wednesday that the Supreme Court had acquitted him of the case for false testimony and false accusation.
During his intervention before the media, he has attacked Jerónimo Alonso, the investigating judge who considered that there were sufficient indications to order the opening of the oral trial against him for having reported the Lanzarote businessman Antonio González and the former socialist councilor Carlos Espino, in a case that was definitively archived after ten years in the courts.
Regarding the investigating judge, San Ginés has assured that he is left with "a bittersweet taste" because "despite having reasons for full joy", he added that "if we have gotten this far it is because something has failed in the judicial system". In this intervention he referred to the magistrate as "unjust judge" and pointed out that the court carried out its investigation "aware that it would not get anywhere".
At the same time, he has accused the magistrate of carrying out "an invaluable service to the plan concocted by the PSOE". San Ginés has insisted that his indictment is part of a strategy to remove them from the "political equation at all costs".
Charges against the PSOE but "extends his hand"
San Ginés has insisted on accusing Carlos Espino, then counselor of the Cabildo's Tourist Centers and insular secretary of the PSOE, despite the fact that the case against him was definitively closed. "He gave prohibited instructions for a company to be hired, bypassing the Law, to which he paid more than 700,000 euros with only one contract, without tendering, for 224,000 euros, and that he also paid another 300,000 euros of public money to two other companies of the same owner without any contract,” he has maintained.
“A flagrant crime for me that was finally shelved for reasons I do not share, of which I regret not having appealed its shelving as Pedro San Ginés instead of as a political group and of which I have few doubts that if the Board of Directors of the Local Public Entity Art, Culture and Tourism Centers, chaired by Astrid Pérez, had appealed it, Carlos Espino today would be tried and convicted,” he/she has added.
“And also a bittersweet taste -he continued- because I deeply regret for the family of the complainant's father, may he rest in peace, that they have chosen to report me and thus revive this case, I have no doubt that pushed by their two witnesses, Carlos Espino and the mayor of Haría, little less than accusing me in the media of ending his father's life, of sinking his company and, in the height of shamelessness, even asking me for 200,000 euros as compensation”.
At the same time, he has assured that "despite the campaign of harassment and bringing down to which the PSOE has subjected me, as island secretary of CC I want to send a message of an outstretched hand to give an opportunity for dialogue between both formations”.
Finally, he concluded: “To those who claim that I have been acquitted because I am privileged, explain to them that being privileged only means that to judge you, the Senate has to authorize it, which, as it always does, authorized it, in such a way that instead of a local court with a single judge judging me, the highest competent court for this case has done so.”