The plenary session of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell has approved paying 14.706 euros that were owed in compensation for assistance to collegiate bodies to councilors and allocations to municipal groups and elected officials. A legal report warns that the town hall He had to face these payments that the previous government team blocked. The consistory, by not paying those arrears, was facing an illegality and, in addition, the amount owed was increasing due to late-payment interest.
As indicated by the session, the previous mayor, Josep Femenia, of Red, wielded the "manifesto against corruption" approved three times in full (in 2013, 2014 and 2015) to freeze the payment of compensation to the mayor Nieves García, of IMA, to his party partner, María Dolores Catalá, the contributions to this municipal group.
"Manifesto without value"
This "manifesto" indicated that the payment of assistance and compensation to investigated councilors and the members they have investigated in their ranks, as well as the assignments to their political groups, had to be canceled. However, the aforementioned legal report, according to municipal sources, "the previous local government did nothing to validate and make that document binding. It remained in a mere declaration of intent that has no real application. The report states that the previous mayor did not make any paperwork for the full agreement of approval of the manifesto will be published in the Official Gazette of the Province. "
The report clarifies that the mayor had to initiate the "timely administrative procedure" to withdraw the compensation to these councilors and quote them in audience. But none of that was done and the "manifesto against corruption" it remained in a mere statement without any practical effect.
The current mayor, Miguel Ángel Garcia, explained that "Our obligation as politicians is to comply with the law and be responsible. The previous local government filled its mouth with a manifesto against corruption that was a paripé, since it did not take any effective measure so that it could be binding. We cannot compromise security Law of this City Council. The law obliges us to pay and, in addition, to keep these assignments frozen causes the interests of delay to be increasingly large " .
Garcia adds that "The former local government arbitrarily applied that measure of not paying compensation to imputed mayor. If he paid that money to Councilwoman Hannelore Rheindorf when he was charged. And Femenia also did not take his salary or take it away from the mayor of its municipal group and its government in the months in which it was also charged with alleged prevarication. They flag the anti-corruption manifesto and are the first to breach it. "
