Friday, March 06, 2009

These could prove to be stormy meetings

The Popular Party (PP) said yesterday, that the summary of Operation Bigastro  reveals that the ex- socialist mayor José Joaquín Moya benefited by about 800,000€ from the municipal  coffers between 2006 and 2008. Moya is imputed for taking bribes, among others crimes.

The spokesman of the PP, Aurelio Murcia, and the councillors, José Antonio Ricart and José Manuel Martínez say that the data in the document reflects the way Moya managed the City council in his 25 years as mayor.

Murcia says that, when they were asked for information prior to the denunciations that lead to the investigation, Moya and the other councillors responsible declared that they knew nothing about  urbanism because they weren't experts. Instead they blamed the technicians  for the irregularities that had occurred.

The meetings today

Today the Council will hold two extraordinary sessions. The first at the request of the PP party to clarify issues about urbanism in the town and the second which will also deal with some of these issues and other matters.

The PP will request suspension of the work in Sector D-5 and solutions for the issues in Sector D-6 where the gas tanks were built on green zone land which was destined to be a park. They also will ask questions about the criteria used for preparation of the Council budget and the inclusion of VPO in the town planning.

Additionally, the opposition party will request an audit and account balance, raise questions about expenses paid for trips, the use of  municipal vehicles by people not employed by the council and finally ask why the ex mayor is being allowed to interfere with municipal management.

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