The Prosecutor's Office has transferred the complaint of Alternativa Ciudadana 25 de Mayo (AC-25M) against the mayor of San Bartolomé, Miguel Martín, to the courts, which could mean that evidence of a crime has been found in the management of the municipality's mayor. This was confirmed this Friday by the councilor of Alternativa, José Antonio González, in statements to Radio Lanzarote.
Paradoxically, the lawsuit that is now being brought to the courts has to do with the same case for which the mayor himself has filed a lawsuit this week against the AC councilor.
As González himself explained, the mayor of San Bartolomé understands that the AC councilor has "slandered and defamed" him by accusing Martín of a "blatant embezzlement of funds in favor of a construction company".
This incident has to do with the demolition a few years ago of the Plaza del Carmen in San Bartolomé. At that time, the progressive councilor published an article accusing the mayor of what is considered a crime, for which he is now being answered by the former member of CCN.
But as González revealed this Friday, this same week a letter arrived at his house stating that "the prosecutor has transferred Alternativa's complaint to the Arrecife courts to open preliminary investigation proceedings", which could mean that "the prosecutor has seen evidence of a crime, because if he hadn't, he would have dismissed it".
AC Assembly
On Wednesday night, the Alternativa assembly met to decide whether or not to support a motion of censure against Miguel Martín. González then defended the opportunity to "get rid of" the mayor of San Bartolomé, but the majority of his training partners did not understand it that way and voted against the proposal of the AC councilor in the municipality.
This Friday González commented on the program Buenos Días, Lanzarote that despite feeling somewhat disappointed with the decision "anything that would not be to abide by the resolution of the colleagues would be to place oneself outside the organization and become a defector".
In any case, González stressed that he still disagrees with the approach of the assembly, which rejected by 22 votes against and 12 in favor the implicit support, even from the opposition, to the hypothetical government of the socialists together with the councilors of the Nationalist Party of Lanzarote (PNL) and Centro Canario Nacionalista (CCN), Olimpia Martín and José Manuel Morales, respectively.
During this festive Thursday many readers of LA VOZ have criticized or supported the decision of the Alternativa assembly, and even, someone has suggested that the coherent thing now would be the resignation of González, but the councilor is not at all in agreement with this idea. The question that is asked in this sense is whether his colleagues who did not support the proposal should have resigned if the opposite result had occurred.
