The spokesperson and councilor of the Socialist Group in the Tinajo City Council, Begoña Hernández, has denounced the "lack of transparency of the mayor of the municipality, Jesús Machín, after the last municipal plenary session was not recorded or disseminated that took place on the morning of this Wednesday. The socialist councilor has expressed her "concern after having begun to dispense with the live broadcast of the plenary sessions, but also after verifying at the end of the session that its recording had not taken place and therefore neither the generation of a video record."
“Machín's apathy with the recording and dissemination of municipal plenary sessions constitutes only one more breach of those that the mayor has accustomed us to and also an intolerable violation of the right of citizens to access public information about the decisions that affect the municipality,” Hernández pointed out. In this sense, the socialist councilor has insisted that “Machín is contributing to opacity in decision-making and is avoiding accountability to citizens.”
She has criticized the mayor's attitude, arguing that “citizens have the right to know what the decisions that affect their day-to-day life are and how they are made. It is not surprising that distrust in institutions grows progressively when this type of practice that seems from another era continues to occur. Then we hear the mayor filling his mouth asking for citizen participation, when he obstructs in such a direct way the information and involvement of the citizens of Tinajo,” Hernández concluded.
