The Town Hall of Burgillos (Sevilla) has just declared itself ‘not viable’ as it is unable to operate owing 70 million euros.

All members of the Town Council, ruled by the PP but backed PSOE and IU in this move, voted in favour of this motion at a packed Plenary Meeting of the Town Council, which included asking for help from the Provincial Council for Sevilla, the Junta de Andalucia and the Central Government in Madrid.

The Mayor of Burguillos Domingo Delgado, (PP) explained how the town owed 70m euros which made the effective operation of the Town Hall “unsustainable.” Burguillos is obliged to approve a Plan de Sanemiento (financial sanitizing plan) which it is incapable of carrying through.

“This Town Hall cannot continue functioning because the PSOE pushed it to the most absolute ruin, and furthermore the demands made by the Provincial Council and the Junta is pushing us further into ruin,” explained the Mayor.

But that’s not all, because the Town Hall has also been ordered to pay out important sums by court order after losing court cases – again, it is impossible to comply. And to make matters worse, the Town Hall is stuck in a situation where it has to provide electricity using industrial-size electricity generators to 300 dwellings because the previous PSOE administration granted First Occupation Certificates to these houses even though the urbanización in question was incomplete and had no electricity supply installed. Just he cost of running this is 30,000 euros a month…

The big question is, why is nobody sitting in jail over this?

(News: Burguillos, Sevilla, Andalucia)