The Socialist Party of Lanzarote, given what happened this Thursday in the Inalsa Investigation Commission, believes that "it is no longer necessary to accumulate more evidence to demonstrate that behind the Inalsa award there is only the hand of Mario Pérez and Coalición Canaria." According to the socialists, "the investigation is demonstrating how the conspiracy theory that Mario Pérez himself and CC had hatched to try to discredit the PSOE and an upstanding person like Pérez Parrilla is collapsing like a house of cards."
The Lanzarote PSOE once again attacks the government group of the Cabildo, this time for not having summoned the press to the session of the investigation commission in which the former socialist president of the Cabildo, Enrique Pérez Parrilla, appeared, and in which the representative of the UTE Edam Janubio also appeared. An appearance that the socialists consider "transcendental, as a result of the statements he made." The PSOE recalls that it is the commission itself, chaired by Ángeles García (CC), that establishes the schedule of appearances and is responsible for communicating it to the media.
Likewise, the PSOE accuses Mario Pérez of "having used a trick typical of a shell game artist to avoid appearing in said investigation commission" and assure that "while Pérez Parrilla has appeared as former president of the Cabildo and has decided to collaborate with the investigation commission, Mario Pérez, taking advantage of the fact that he can testify as president of the board of directors of Inalsa, has avoided appearing, deliberately delaying his appearance." For the Socialist Party, and as a result of the seriousness of what was heard this Thursday in the commission, "Mario Pérez is trying to avoid having to testify before the elections at all costs."
Present lawsuit
For the PSOE, however, the most serious thing is what the representative of the UTE Edam Janubio, Enrique Hernández, stated in the investigation commission. The socialists affirm that, according to Hernández, "it was Mario Pérez himself who suggested, in one of his meetings with the UTE, that it present the litigation before the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce of Las Palmas. According to the representative of Edam Janubio, Mario Pérez argued that in this way he would have an excuse to convince the Board of Directors of Inalsa to reach an agreement to cancel the contract."
The PSOE has announced that it will request this Friday a copy of the tapes of the investigation commission to make its content public, since it considers that, if this fact is confirmed, it is of such "extreme seriousness" that it could be classified as the "greatest irresponsibility that a public official of Lanzarote has ever done in the entire history of the island." For the PSOE, the fact that the CEO of Inalsa himself incited the UTE to file the litigation "is the height of incompetence. The island does not deserve such a public representative."
The Lanzarote socialists assure that "Mario Pérez already deceived the public opinion of the island when he said that he had learned of the award through the press, and then it turned out that he had appeared in the Arbitration Court in Las Palmas and had visited Janubio with the arbitrator." Finally, the PSOE also maintains that "it has been proven that Inalsa did not appear in the Arbitration Court to take part in the election of the arbitrator designated for the award, and neither did it present allegations in writing in a timely manner."
After all of the above and knowing that the Prosecutor's Office filed a complaint from the PIL councilors for not finding evidence of a crime in the contract with the UTE, the PSOE of Lanzarote asks itself "if Mario Pérez will declare again that only he thinks about defending the public production of water on the island."