The decision was taken in the last extraordinary plenary meeting of the Almuñécar Town Council to annul the existing lease for the Aquarium.

The motion was approved unanimously, thanks to the failings of the existing leaseholder of these installations; i.e., not having paid salaries for the last five months, amongst other deficiencies.

The problem now is that the hitherto employees of the Barcelona-based company are now out of a job. Accordingly, the Mayor, Trinidad Herrera, they will try to make it a condition of the new lease that the said employees be “taken into account” by the new leaseholder. The opposition party, the CA, however, went further and demanded that it be obligatory for the new leaseholders to reemploy them.

Interestingly, the Mayor made public the findings of a Guardia Civil report on the state of the fish in the aquarium – the staff had claimed that they were dying. According to the environmental protection department of the Guardia Civil (Seprona), this was not the case.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)