The Popular Party Group of the Consell Insular de Ibiza has lamented this morning “the lack of seriousness and rigor of the Socialist Party wanting to turn a report of the Audit Office into a scandal”, after the Socialists denounced “clientelist management and full of irregularities”. In this sense, from the PP questioned that the PSOE tries to confuse “the public opinion by referring to alleged “irregularities” in relation to the recommendations made by the Audit Office to all the Island Councils of the islands, including those where the PSOE governed in the audited year, whose purpose is to propose improvements in the day to day and management of all institutions”. In addition, they have remarked that “it is striking, precisely that it is the PSOE who criticizes that FECOEV manages the competences in Tourism Promotion, when it was their government in July 2017 who decided to eliminate the Foundation for Tourism Promotion of Ibiza and transfer it to Fairs, Congresses and Events of Eivissa S.A.U”. “Perhaps, the PSOE is now learning that from Promoción Turística you can make real policy to improve the lives of the residents of our islands,” they state ironically. And they add that “just as the left was limited to going to Miami to look for more macro-cruises for our island, the PP has focused its management on modernizing and giving meaning to this department. Proof of this is the commitment to seasonal tourism through sports events, which has advanced the season two months, or the creation, after many legislatures of talking about it without turning it into reality, of the Tourism Observatory, now SITE, which allows the sector to have, for the first time, access to real-time data that allow to manage and make decisions more wisely”. Regarding the alleged “finger grants”, from the PP reminded the PSOE that “they are fully transparent, are detailed in each budget and are publicly exposed for 15 days.” “The entities that receive them require a minimum of guarantees and security to carry out their work, which, remember, they do it without profit reaching where the administration is not able to do so. The question that has been put to the PSOE on more than one occasion is still up in the air: Which nominative subsidy should be eliminated? And, above all, does the PSOE prefer its subsidy model, with drowned, bankrupt, indebted entities, suppressing their activities and with directors mortgaging themselves for unfulfilled promises of socialist teams?”. On the other hand, they argue that “the PSOE omits to say that each and every one of the invoices that the Audit Office has analyzed have reports in favor of technicians of this institution that support the service provided as well as the payment of the same. Huge difference to the socialist management that, for example, left a gap of more than two million euros to a social entity for making contracts to finger without the endorsement or signature of a single technician and that now, unfortunately, has to be resolved in court, unlike those they have cited today.” “In addition, the claim that the company FECOEV has no controls is directly false, having internal controls, passing every year an external audit and being subject to the own audit bodies of the Consell Insular, as well known by the socialist councilors who are part of the Board of Directors of the public company,” they pointed out.
Finally, the PP of Ibiza argues that “it is striking that the PSOE intends to sow doubts about the honesty of this government team and, however, does not tear his clothes before the same facts, also collected by the syndicate, in the island councils of the other islands where, remember, they governed”.
