The IU has reported the Mayor for allegedly falsifying agreements reached during town council meetings. Local IU leader, Fermín Tejero – the bloke in the previous article about the campsite – claims that this was done to make something appeared as ‘approved,’ when in fact it wasn’t.
He says that he has already sent in a written request to the Municipal Secretary to investigate the affair because, “in practise what has been done is an act of criminal forgery,” he claims.
In the town council meeting, which was celebrated on the 30th of April, a point was debated, covering the building developer, Promotora Cercado de la Santa Cruz, which requested permission to cede the concession that it possesses for the controversial gas station under the public stands of the municipal sports stadium in the P-4 area of town. The proposal was passed, thanks to the Mayor’s party’s votes alone, as the opposition parties were two votes down owing to absences.
As a quick aside, it is very much worth pointing out that one of those missing votes was the PP councillor that fell out with his party over the vote-of-no-confidence against the Mayor. The other missing vote was the only PA councillor on the council, who was off sick. The PA, you might remember, was the Mayor’s old party.
Anyway, according to the IU councillor, the said proposal included permission to substitute the mortgage that a previous town council meeting on the 17th of December 2007 had approved.
Now, the falsehood lies in the fact that neither the gas station nor the mortgage was discussed in the said town council meeting, claims Sr Tejero. According to him, the only time that the mortgage was discussed was on the 17th of September 2007, where such a mortgage was rejected.
Yeah, whatever. It’s all very convoluted but the essence is that in the meeting on the 30th of April, the subject was put forward as if the mortgage had been accepted in a previous meeting, which it was not, according to Sr. Tejero. Anyway, if true, it is the least of Benny’s legal problems, even though, if the accusation proves true, it is enough to hang him, politically speaking.