As La Voz de Ibiza advanced, the former insular president and current deputy and non-attached councilor of Formentera, Llorenç Córdoda, has been banished by the new government team, taking away the office that had been assigned at the headquarters of the Consell to fulfill its functions in the Parlament and has moved him to the outskirts of Sant Francesc.
Last Tuesday, maintenance personnel tried to force their way into the office by breaking the lock of the office where Cordoba still has documentation for his function as a Balearic deputy.
This controversy comes after the new island president Óscar Portas revoked a decree signed by Cordoba himself on December 27, minutes before the censure motion, in which he assigned an office on the second floor of the headquarters of the Consell de Formentera, relying on the Organic Regulations of Consells.
From this, it has determined its “move” to an office in the building of the old medical center, on the outskirts of Sant Francesc, where the Justice of the Peace is located and the Consell d’Entitats meets, in the vicinity of the Civil Guard barracks .
Forced eviction
Last Tuesday, the government team of Sa Unió tried to carry out a forced eviction.
“They wanted to bust the door. That is to say, they gave orders to Maintenance to burst the cylinder of the door to get in. And I have my deputy’s documents still in there,” Cordoba recounted this week.
According to him, this is against the Rules of Procedure: “What they have done is to throw back my decree and take this office away from me. The Organic Regulation of the Consell says that the office has to be in the headquarters of the Consell. So, where they send me, there is not even any conselleria. It is a building outside the town. Outside the town and it is even difficult for people to get there. That is a punishment to me.
The forced eviction could be stopped after Cordoba promised to enter the key once he returned to Formentera, as he was off the island for the plenary session of the Parliament in Mallorca.
“What I said was, wait for me to come back to Formentera. And I give you the keys. But of course, the intention, the orders to the workers of the Consell de Mantenimiento, was to burst a door to open. The first thing they should have done was to contact me, they have my phone number, and tell me, ‘Lorenzo, can you give us the keys? Because if you don’t, we are going to burst the door’. But of course, if they call me from the maintenance of the Consell to tell me ‘look, Lorenzo, they have told us to burst the door, to open the door’. But they haven’t asked me for the keys, I have them,” Cordoba said to La Voz de Ibiza.
What the Regulation establishes
Chapter IX of the Organic Regulations of the Consell de Formentera establishes, in paragraph 3 of Article 106, that the “deputy in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands elected for the constituency of Formentera also has the right to occupy an office in the headquarters of the Consell and to use the services and staff of the Consell for the exercise of his representative functions“.
The current deputy for Pitiusa Menor remarked that this office should not be “in any premises of the Consell, not in any Conselleria of the Consell: at the headquarters. And the headquarters is the central building of the Consell”.
“They have sent me to a place where the neighborhood organizations meet and where the Justice of the Peace is. But there is nothing else, there is no Conselleria, there is nothing. So, of course, it’s a place…. They banish me a bit. They banish me to a place where it does not touch,” he added.
According to Cordoba, this banishment in breach of the Regulations is to avoid certain control by the former island president. “The problem there is that me being in the central building, in an indirect way, because it is not that it is my intention, I can see the movements they make or control them a little. It is where the Secretariat department is, it is where the comptroller is.”
