Time is running out and the options are running out for the current Mayor of Arrecife. The latest news received from the Palace of Justice calls into question Montelongo's actions at the head of the Finance Department in the Arrecife City Council. No matter how much he wants to cling to the chair and entrench himself in the Mayor's Office, the clock has started the countdown.
He could be described as the worst mayor Arrecife has ever had. Impassive to the problems of the citizens and a Mayor who has not been able to solve the most trivial problems of the residents. The citizens of Arrecife surely voted for him, despite being charged, trusting that he could improve the city and decongest the great problems that the capital has, which range from the urban planning of the municipality to alleviating the social emergencies in which our city is immersed. But it has not been like that. He has plunged a city thirsty for employment, lacking investment and, worst of all, collapsed with social problems, further into misery.
Today we can say that in a game of chess in which Montelongo plays King and Justice plays Queen, a checkmate is about to end his most precious dream: to hold the baton of command of the capital of the island. The bail requested by the investigating judge is close to two million euros, an amount that shows that things were not done well and that the party of corruption has to come to an end.
Mayors of all colors have passed through the Arrecife City Council, but without a doubt red has predominated; that same red that has generated great delays in our municipality and has placed Arrecife as a city without direction, a city where the personal interests of those who govern have prevailed and prevail over the interest of the citizens who are crying out for Arrecife to be taken out of the well where it is submerged. A municipality that already deserves respect from those who govern and eliminate the opaque cloud of corruption that has plagued the City Council for years. And meanwhile, José Montelongo, spends all the "resources" at his disposal to finish his brief term, agonizing in the Mayor's Office.
Jacobo Medina, Councilor of the Popular Party in the Arrecife City Council