The spokesperson for the Renovating Movement of Tinajo (MRT), Antonio Morales, denounces that the municipal government group, with the mayor at the head, has not hesitated this week to "invent" new council positions "in order to be able to release each and every one of the councilors" that are part of the new government group.
"In order to fulfill his commitment to release all the councilors when he was preparing his electoral list, the mayor has had to invent new areas of government to justify the more than 300,000 euros that the Tinajo City Council will annually spend on the release of the nine councilors, an item that will also increase considerably, since these 300,000 euros per year do not include the
upcoming hiring of new trusted personnel", explains Antonio Morales.
"We hope that in the face of this aberration, the mayor will not dare to also hire trusted personnel, although everything points to that being the case," the party anticipates. "It is very likely, furthermore, that this new trusted personnel actually comes from the electoral list of CC in Tinajo, with candidates who did not achieve a seat as councilor," he warns.
Council positions for music, dance, and national parks
The spokesperson for the MRT "is perplexed" after the mayor has "pulled out of his sleeve new council positions such as the new areas of government for music, dance, or string bands." "We are astonished after learning that the City Council will now have a Council Delegation for Taxis, separate from the Council for Transportation; that from now on we will also have a Council for Beaches, and it is also surprising that the mayor has created a new specific area of government for National Parks and the Biosphere Reserve, when these are competences that depend on the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa and the Government of the Canary Islands itself," Morales highlights.
The councilor for the MRT clarifies that "the City Council must appoint a councilor to represent Tinajo in these bodies of the Biosphere Reserve and National Parks, but in no case is the creation of its own Council required."
Towns divided into districts
On the other hand, Antonio Morales criticizes that, in his eagerness to justify the work assigned to the nine released councilors, the mayor has also "had the idea of creating several districts for the towns, such as the case of La Santa, whose management has been divided into two districts."
"How is it possible that we begin the new mandate with the mayor dividing the administration of towns like La Santa into several districts?", questions Morales, who reveals that "district one will be managed by one councilor and district two will be managed by another councilor, and all this only to be able to give content to the supposed work that the nine councilors of the government group will be in charge of." "They know that paper can handle anything and that they can
pretend a specific number of council positions to justify those exorbitant expenses of 300,000 euros per year, but it is clear that some council positions will also be left empty of content", indicates the spokesperson for the Renovating Movement of Tinajo.
Tinajo, in its line of lack of transparency
On the other hand, in the design of the new municipal organizational chart, Morales also expresses his discomfort because "a party that considers itself nationalist has not even created areas such as the Council for Historical Heritage."
Furthermore, Morales has reproached the mayor of Tinajo for "having once again failed to comply with the Law by not summoning the new councilor of the MRT" -Francisco Manuel Yaiza Perdomo- to the plenary session held last Monday, the second of this new mandate and in which the areas of government were delegated and the new salaries of public officials were designated.
"The municipal government group has once again displayed the lack of transparency to which it has accustomed us"
To this circumstance, it must be added that in the press release sent to the media after the aforementioned plenary session, "the municipal government group has once again displayed the lack of transparency to which it has accustomed us by conveying misleading delegations to the public and, yes, saying absolutely nothing about the salaries that the nine councilors of this new Government are going to receive."
