The Transparency Commissioner requires the Tinajo City Council to provide various information to the PSOE

The party requested the municipal current accounts and the invoices issued by Canal Gestión Lanzarote, charged to the City Council between 2019 and 2022

July 12 2023 (09:53 WEST)
Begoña Hernández, Socialist spokesperson in the Tinajo City Council.
Begoña Hernández, Socialist spokesperson in the Tinajo City Council.

The Transparency Commissioner has requested the Tinajo City Council to provide various information that it denied to the Socialist Group in the last legislature. One refers to the municipal current accounts and another to invoices issued by Canal Gestión Lanzarote charged to the City Council in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, as well as the list of debt of the local corporation with said entity.

The municipal spokesperson, Begoña Hernández, regrets that the Transparency Commissioner “has been forced to intervene due to the obstructionist attitude of the mayor, Jesús Machín, and his government team, by preventing him from adequately carrying out his supervisory work from the opposition.” 

Maximum period of fifteen business days

In both cases, the government group of Coalición Canaria refused to comply with its legal duty to offer the information required by the opposition. After estimating two claims filed by the PSOE spokesperson, Begoña Hernández, the Transparency Commissioner “urges the City Council to deliver the information within a maximum period of fifteen business days.”

In addition, the Transparency Commissioner asks the City Council for a copy of the information sent to the Socialist Group, with proof of its delivery, “to verify compliance with said resolutions.” The Transparency Commissioner reminds the Tinajo City Council that it has the legal obligation to deliver the information requested by the opposition, and that, “if it does not do so repeatedly, it would be committing a serious or very serious infraction.”

Finally, the PSOE spokesperson recalls that the Tinajo City Council failed in transparency in the last audited year “with a poor score of 3.21 points.” This low score is very far from the average score obtained in the last evaluation of all public entities of the Islands, which was 7.82 points, a “resounding failure” that supports the fair criticisms of the Socialist Group.

Island municipality transparency map.
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