The Secretary of Organization of the Canarian Socialist Party (PSC-PSOE), Gloria Gutiérrez, assures that "the PP invents 'political crime' if it relies on defendants subjected to pre-trial detention to win the Arrecife City Council".
Gutiérrez states in a statement that the motion of censure presented against the socialist mayor of Arrecife, Enrique Pérez Parrilla, demonstrates "how Mariano Rajoy understands the 'good political practices' that he has been preaching these days in the Canary Islands" in relation to the Gürtel case.
"It is symptomatic that the PP dares to present a motion of censure supported by two defendants, subjected to pre-trial detention and currently on provisional release, just when its national president, Mariano Rajoy, has taken a tour of the Canary Islands to give instructions to Soria and his people," he adds.
Gutiérrez insists that the PP "cannot ignore that it is a national deputy, Cándido Reguera, who will be mayor with the support of two defendants, and that they thus carry political corruption, crossing the Spanish State, from Lanzarote to the Congress of Deputies".
The Secretary of Organization of the PSC-PSOE says that "the PP's action is even more reprehensible if it is contrasted with that of the socialists of Lanzarote". Gutiérrez recalls that "the PP takes advantage of a minority situation of the PSC-PSOE in the Arrecife City Council: but a minority caused because we did not want to continue in a pact with the PIL, given its links with Operation Union".
Gutiérrez argues that "the honesty of the socialists of Lanzarote, removing those accused in a corruption process that is being judged from the government of Arrecife, is paid for by the rest of the political forces, and especially the PP, with a motion of censure that turns Arrecife, Lanzarote and the Canary Islands into the capital of 'anything goes' in politics".
The Socialist Secretary of Organization shows her support and the adherence of all Canarian socialists to the mayor of Arrecife, Enrique Pérez Parrilla, and to the socialists of the island and its island secretary, Carlos Espino. "The socialists of Lanzarote have given an example of knowing how to do politics that this motion of censure only makes more evident," she says.
The motion of censure presented to the socialist mayor of Arrecife, Enrique Pérez Parrilla, is supported by four councilors from the Popular Party, two from the Lanzarote Nationalist Party and seven from the Lanzarote Independents Party, including Ubaldo Becerra and José Miguel Rodríguez. Becerra and Rodríguez were charged with bribery in the so-called Operation Unión, the investigation of a plot to collect illegal commissions in an alleged corrupt urban planning network. Both spent four months in prison, and are now on provisional release.
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