The former president of the Consell Insular de Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba, has come out to respond to the decision of the new Governing Board to paralyze and review a series of contracts for 130,000 euros that were signed in mid-December when he was still in charge of the institution and argued that this maneuver is to “justify a motion of censure that had no justification”.
Consulted by La Voz de Ibiza, the current non-attached councilor said that “it seems to me a move to try to make me look bad. And, as always, when they do something to make me look bad, there is always secondary damage. At times, the secondary damages are on the Consell, sometimes they are on the population and, in this case, it will be on private companies”.
Cordoba said that it would have to “review contract by contract and, if they want to annul it, let them give their reasons and annul it. I am not saying not to do it. But to preventively annul all of them and then look at them, seems to me to be a move more worthy of other interests that are not in the interest of Formentera and the Consell. They are rather political interests and not really for the good of Formentera”.
In this line, he said that “there is a lot of bad faith in some movements that the government team is making. They are checking a lot of things inside, as if I were a criminal or corrupt”.
“They have a fixation, an obsession with finding things that I have done wrong and they are really using time and resources on that instead of fixing the problems they need to fix,” he said.
According to Cordoba, “the opposition has not supported a motion of censure so that they can dedicate themselves to persecute the former president. I think it is to do things for Formentera”.
And he stated that “they are trying to justify a motion of censure, which had no justification, looking for things to say: ‘Do you see how we had to kick him out?’ Because really, what is the reason behind the motion of censure? Nobody has shown me that I have done anything wrong. No one has shown that I have worked in bad faith”.
“We go like crabs”
One of the arguments of the opposition to move forward with the motion of censure was that the Consell was paralyzed by the lack of a government team.
For this reason, Cordoba stated that “then they say that we have not done anything and that we have not worked. Yes, there are things that we have left ready, and what they do is to throw them backwards. We go like crabs, we go backwards. The same thing happened with the kiosks, with the question asked to the Government”.
Precisely, the former insular director of Litoral de Formentera, Asier Fernandez, had made the consultation on the dismantling of the beach bars last October, despite the fact that Sa Unió had denounced that these steps had not been taken.
“We had already asked that question, we had written it in a report signed by the contract technician and the lawyer. But they didn’t trust us and wanted to do it themselves. I imagine it must be a little bit the same,” said Córdoba.
