The Renovating Movement of Tinajo has once again denounced the "dictatorial ways" of the mayor, Jesús Machín, stating that he has been "more than four months without holding plenary sessions and now he has called a session contravening his own agreements." "He systematically violates the law," denounces the party's spokesperson, Antonio Morales.
The councilor recalls that in June 2019, the government group itself approved that the ordinary plenary sessions be held on the first Wednesdays of even months, at 9 in the morning. In addition, he stresses that CC did so "imposing its majority and ignoring the opposition", which asked for them to be in the afternoon.
However, since the last session held in April, there had been no new calls, "skipping" the one in June and the one in early August. "Now they have called it for August 24, the eve of San Ginés," questions Morales, who accuses the mayor of managing the City Council "as if it were his particular farm."
"It is regrettable the contempt with which he treats the opposition. We have been elected by the residents of Tinajo just like the municipal government," emphasizes the councilor of the Renovating Movement of Tinajo.
"His entire government group is released and has no problem"
In addition, he questions that during these months without plenary sessions, the mayor "has not had the slightest detail, courtesy, or respect to call the opposition; first to explain the reasons why they were not convened and then to set an agreed date."
In this regard, he recalls that the opposition councilors have their jobs outside the City Council and need to know with enough time what days the plenary sessions will be held to be able to attend. "If the ordinary plenary sessions have established dates and they change them, it becomes more complicated to ask for time off at work, modify shifts...", he explains.
"He does not take that detail into consideration because his entire government group is released and that means that he has that ease to convene the plenary sessions on the day he wants and at the time he wants, turning his back on the opposition," denounces Antonio Morales.
In addition, he recalls that "the law establishes that the plenary sessions can be changed by decree, but only if there are reasons to do so, and of force majeure, not by whim."
Tinajo still without budgets for this year
To this is added the lack of content of the session convened for this Wednesday. "It surprises us a lot that being already at the end of August, the 2022 budgets are not on the agenda. We find it regrettable," reproaches Morales.
Similarly, he points out that there is also no point on "the water problems, which are not few in the municipality, and so many other issues" that they have been denouncing for years from the opposition. "It is clear that the mayor is more concerned about the festivities, the waste, the photos to show off, than the problems of the residents of Tinajo."
In this session that arrives with more than four months of delay, the only notable point that the government group brings is the modification of the Job Position List (RPT), together with the approval of the local festivals of 2023.
"It is regrettable that after so many months without a plenary session, he barely brings three issues," criticizes the Renovating Movement of Tinajo, which considers that the mayor "shows once again that he is neither there nor is he expected." "We, the residents of Tinajo, have to be suffering his whims, his nonsense and his little desire to solve the problems of the municipality and the residents," concludes Morales.
