The Plenary of the San Bartolomé City Council has approved a motion presented by the Canarian Coalition, through which the municipal plenary will assume part of the powers that, until now, the government board and the mayor of the PSOE, Marcial Martín, had. Given the new minority situation that arose after the breakdown of the government pact between the PSOE and PIL, as a consequence of Operation "Unión", CC has made this proposal "because now the qualified majority to make decisions lies with the opposition".
This was stated by the CC spokesperson in this Consistory, Juan Antonio de La Hoz, who assured that after the breakdown of the pact and the dismissal of the PIL councilors by Marcial Martín, "unilaterally and in a partisan manner" on June 5, the Canarian Coalition "was forced" to try to get this institution "out of the crisis".
Faced with this political scenario, the nationalist formation presented a motion, which has been approved with the votes in favor of all the opposition parties, and by which the powers that the government board previously had, "will now pass to the municipal plenary". "It will be the one who makes decisions, except in matters that are exclusively the responsibility of the mayor, and that by law we cannot take away from him," he indicated.
De la Hoz explained that, for example, neither the mayor nor any delegated councilor may grant a subsidy greater than 3,000 euros, and this decision must be approved in a municipal plenary session.
This initiative is similar to the one that PP, PNL and PIL had tried to bring to the Arrecife City Council, although they have not yet presented it. In both cases, the aim is to take power away from the government board. "I don't know the Arrecife motion, but I imagine it will go along the same lines," said De la Hoz.