The president of the Consell de Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba, does not hide about the irregularities of the license for the legalization and reform of El Caminito.
- Córdoba, one year after the historic crisis in the Consell de Formentera: “I regret having brought Sa Unió to power”.
- The President of the Consell de Formentera denounces corruption, mafia practices and conspiracies in the consistory.
- Cordoba and the crisis of governance: threats, failed protests and the political game on Formentera
Caminito License: “I will sit down with Urbanismo and if it has to be revoked, it will be revoked”.
-What doyou plan to do with the Caminito license?
-Talk to Urbanismo to see what happened, and if that license has to be revoked, it will have to be revoked. It is scandalous the way it was done and it is suspicious.
-Were you aware that this license was pending approval?
-Yes, there had been meetings or comments from Sa Unió about this license. But no, it was never discussed that this license had to go urgently to the board of government that I could not attend because I was in the Parliament. It was the first news.
-When exactly did you find out?
-With the minutes. In addition, I was told that I had to sign the minutes, which I still question even today. The meeting was convened and chaired by the vice-president, she should have signed the minutes, not me.
That’s why I spent three days thinking about whether to sign the license.I did not see it clearly. Until Mr. Serra, by WhatsApp, in the middle of a plenary session, told me: “Llorenç, you have to sign it now because, if not…”, I do not remember what would happen. I hadn’t seen anything strange, I had all the favorable reports and I signed….
It is true that I was very suspicious of the abstention of the representative of the College of Engineers in the CTA. N or it is something normal. Neither were the first secretaries nor the accidental ones…. L people in the house who know what this is all about did not want to get involved.
Javier Serra’s role in the expiration of the special plan of La Savina and the two docks
-Why do you think Javier Serra let the special plan for La Savina lapse?
-I don’t know. I know he let it expire. I have the WhatsApp messages to prove it. Why? I do not know what interest Mr. Serra may have in the expiration of the special plan for La Savina, when this special plan precisely what it does is to allow more things to be done and to invest more in La Savina.
-He had an interest in La Savina, at least at the time he let the plan lapse through his participation in Marina Formentera.
-Yes. I don’t want to think badly, but I wouldn’t want to believe it has anything to do with this. However…
The port: “With two docks in La Savina there have always been problems”.
-Oneor two docks, president?
-In the letter I sent to the Port Authority, I included two docks, even though the system has not worked. They have generated conflicts day in and day out, are two docks and are physically intertwined. The Port Authority suggested to me that there should be a concession because it is the best solution. Anyway, I think competition is good.
-I think it is a mistake to raise this issue in terms of competition when it is a public concession with maximum prices. Competition will come from the bidders in the tender.
-True. The short concession model is the worst thing that has ever been done in Formentera. You don’t allow companies to invest in anything, so you don’t improve and everything becomes a disaster.
-What needs to be done?
Long-term concessions and investments must be allowed, as I was approached by the Port Authority, I saw it as very logical and with more future and feasible to gather everything in a single marina. A place where there is only one captain, only one boatswain, you only have to pay insurance for the boats. A place where all the permits you have to do are given by one person. Where the groups of workers for the shifts are the same. A single marina. It goes without saying.
The Club Nautico de Palma has 1,200 moorings. If we add all those of Formentera, we have 160. It makes sense that there is only one.
-However, you sent a letter requesting two docks to the Port Authority?
-Yes, one thing is my personal opinion and another thing is that the president is not a dictator. We had a meeting of spokespersons, in which I was despised by the opposition, by the way, and that is what they told me.
On Artal Mayans: “He is a coherent person, although I did not like the video of the chiringuitos”.
-If I tell you “Artal Mayans“, what do you answer?
-A coherent person. He has shown that he does not follow the line of Sa Unió, that he has come to work.
I don’t have any inconvenience and we are in communication. I let him work and when he needs me, he knows where to find me.
I am grateful that he has stayed, he manages very important issues such as Tourism and Housing. I don’t need him to back me up as such, the fact that he is doing his job is enough.
He is an example of how we could govern with Sa Unió: we don’t have to be friends and have coffee together. What we have to do is to work, as we are doing with him and me now.
-Did youlike the video that Turismo took to the World Travel Market?
-No, not at all. I hadn’t seen it before. I didn’t like it. I think it is a mistake on the part of the Consell. The Consell should avoid advertising private companies and less in this case, when it is seen that it is with full intention.
You can promote the kiosks as part of our offer, but you do not have to promote private businesses.
We should have been more cautious, with everything we know so far.
Formentera has much more to offer. And I do not think that public funds should be used to make a video of something that next year may not be so. Surely there will be kiosks, but we do not know if they will be these or not, or what names they will have or under what figure they will operate.
So I was surprised that the Tourism Councilor did not show it to me, at least as a detail. I don’t know if it was Mayans’ idea and I don’t know what led him to give that message.
