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Yonathan de León, mayor of Arrecife, was on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero's Buenos días, Lanzarote program this Tuesday to answer some questions about the internal crisis that the PP of the island is going through. Specifically, regarding the situation of María Jesús Tovar, current vice president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, whom the Court of Accounts points out as allegedly responsible for an accounting scope of 88,000 euros of public funds from the Arrecife City Council, during her time as Councilor for Social Welfare of the city between 2019 and 2023.
In this sense, de León explained that "until today no colleague has said that this corresponds to a war, the question is that an audit was carried out by the Canary Islands Court of Auditors to Arrecife and four other municipalities in which information is requested and this City Council gives that information in 2022 and the Court of Auditors indicates in one of the paragraphs that there may be accounting responsibility. From there it is transferred to the Canary Islands Court of Accounts to take cognizance".
From there, the mayor pointed out, "there has been total transparency, and there the Court of Accounts detects that there may be a possible accounting responsibility and what Arrecife does is defend what it has done. After a report from the workers in which it was said that these subsidies could be transcribed taking into account that there was also a decree of social emergency because it was during covid and from there the City Council defends the thesis of the councilors and what the workers have done
"What the Arrecife City Council has done is defend in the Court of Accounts that there is no accounting responsibility, what there could be is an administrative infraction," he continued.
Regarding the internal political relations after the possible incorporation of Armando Santana into the government group of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, de León stated that "what happens in the Cabildo has to be answered by someone else, the relationship I have with my colleagues is very good and the one I have with the government partners is also very good despite what the opposition and the media say, with very good harmony although with some discussion in between because this happens even in families."
Regarding the possibility that the PP will remove the Councilor for Public Works, Jacobo Medina, from his area, the mayor of Arrecife pointed out that "we are all working in our administrations and I think the important thing is that the Popular Party has a very good representation and the polls give us very good results, so I think we have to continue working to increase the number of votes and affiliates so that the party continues to grow."