The Haría City Council will receive "between 11 and 13 million euros" from the Cabildo through the new agreement that both institutions plan to sign "imminently" and with which the first institution intends to comply with the ruling of the Cueva de Los Verdes. This was stated by the mayor of Haría, Alfredo Villalba, who explained that said agreement will have to be signed "before the end of the month."
Otherwise, the agreement signed between the previous president, Pedro San Ginés, and the former mayor, Marci Acuña, which incurred nullity defects, would have to be "assimilated", according to a report commissioned by the City Council itself after signing it.
"The previous agreement was signed four years ago and to declare any type of injury or nonconformity, once four years have passed, it can no longer be done," explained the mayor, who has stated that "it is being rushed by both institutions" because "there is no deadline."
"It is basically a technical document"
Currently, according to Villalba, the agreement is "under supervision" and, once it is supervised by both institutions, "a plenary session will be called and the content will be previously informed." However, the mayor of Haría has stated that it is "basically a technical document."
"The political part has been reserved, as it could not be otherwise, for the payment deadlines. That is the only political margin there was. The rest is a stipulation of what corresponds by judgment, which is certified by both the legal services and the Intervention of the City Council and the Cabildo," he said.
Regarding the payment deadlines, the mayor of Haría has not revealed what they will be, but he has pointed out that the City Council is going to be "quite generous", taking into account "on the one hand the economic situation we are experiencing and on the other the budgetary execution capacity of the City Council."
"It is normal for there to be nervousness and pressure from outsiders"
The imminent signing of the new agreement has already generated tension in the Haría City Council and a response from CC, with whom the PSOE precisely governs in the Haría City Council. And the fact is that the nationalists insist on validating the previous agreement despite the fact that a legal report from the Haría City Council warned that it had not been validated by the courts and that it would be null and harmful to the interests of the Consistory.
“We are not going to allow Haría to lose what it is entitled to by law due to partisan interests of the PSOE,” said the local secretary of CC and third deputy mayor of Haría, Víctor Robayna, in a statement in which he defends that the agreement signed by San Ginés and Acuña allowed Haría to "benefit from more than two million euros between subsidies, employment plans, purchase of real estate and other requests that the City Council made to the Island Council".
"Who says whether the amounts that have been delivered to Haría correspond to the agreement or not, is not me as a politician. It is the Intervention services and, until now, the previous auditor and the current auditor, say that zero euros have been received in respect of the agreement", replied the mayor of Haría, recalling that the City Council's Intervention department concluded that there were no investments attributable to said agreement.
"It is normal for there to be a bit of nervousness and pressure from outsiders," added Alfredo Villalba, who has also not ruled out that the Haría Municipality Platform may also intend to overthrow him. "That is probably it, but I believe that everyone will answer to the population. I am quite clear about it, our group is quite clear about it, and the government group is also quite clear about it, that it is going to defend the interests of the municipality above the interests of the parties, despite the fact that there are people outside the government group who are trying to do something contrary," he said.
However, despite the public differences expressed by his government partner of CC, Villalba has said he does not fear that José Torres Stinga and Pedro San Ginés will orchestrate a motion of censure against him. "Not at all. It is a democratic right and, when half plus one is added, if they have it, fine. I am going to continue working as from day one, but not fear at all," he concluded.