A report prepared by the Department of Labor Relations of the Centers for Art, Culture, and Tourism shows that its CEO, Ángel Vázquez, earns an annual salary of 70,000 euros, “like all other councilors of the Cabildo”.
Thus, several weeks after the uproar caused by the Socialist Party offering citizens "fake news that only seeks to harm their political adversaries," Vázquez clarifies the real situation and guarantees that "neither the main opposition party in the island's First Corporation nor its councilor Benjamín Perdomo will distract me from the good work we are doing," and that, in no case, "will they set the pace of events, whatever they invent."
The document reveals "something important that kills the socialist narrative": Vázquez's supposed salary increase of no less than 25,000 euros in a single year "through allowances that he never collected". The Department of Labor Relations confirms that during that period, the company's top executive **received 4,580 euros for this item**, "more than 20,000 euros less than what the Socialist Party determined".
The report also accredits, "without any possible reinterpretation, that no additional salary increase is recorded, nor has it taken place, beyond the annual increase legally foreseen for public employees".
“With this report and all the public information that any citizen can access, an end is put to another lie from someone who has made entanglement their only way of doing politics,” explains Vázquez, visibly annoyed. “Benjamín Perdomo lied about the Entity's accounts; he lied about income during the pandemic that only he could see; he lied about audits that exposed the shame of his management and he also lied about my salary, manipulating figures at will to distract the population and evade his responsibility during his disastrous time at the head of this Entity.”"It's surprising that people like Benjamín Perdomo can afford to lie about something like this when both the PSOE and Perdomo himself know that during this term we have put an end to the chaos that existed in previous periods when there was hardly any control over spending and what was proudly called management was nothing more than absolute disarray. A disarray," Vázquez concludes, "in which he and his party feel absolutely comfortable doing as they please."
Vázquez considers that the socialist councilor "has crossed the line of what is reasonable and admissible: he lies because from the first plenary session of the current term in the Cabildo he knows that my salary is the same as that of the rest of the councilors, and that there was no salary increase whatsoever. However, he muddles and uses numbers as he pleases in his eagerness to gain media notoriety, even at the cost of the truth itself.”
“Targeted Strategy”
The counselor understands, in any case, that Perdomo's attitude obeys "a strategy directed from higher instances with the objective of muddying public life". "They intend to focus on third parties to hide the shameful reality in which their party and the Government of Spain are immersed".
Before concluding, Vázquez encourages the socialist councilor "to make an effort to work with rigor and seriousness for the benefit of the populations of Tías and Lanzarote, as he is an advisor in the tourist municipality and a councilor of the island's First Institution."
