Almost as if in a concerted speech with the rest of the opposition groups, sa Unió has given a press conference this morning in which he accused Llorenç Córdoba of putting up a “smokescreen to cover the loneliness in which he finds himself at the moment, to cover up his management and to cover up the lawsuits that he does have”. This is what José Manuel Alcarazsaid this afternoon , who referred to the lawsuit filed by sa Unió against the president of the Consell Insular: “Yesterday it was clear that President Cordoba uses this smokescreen to sow doubts about everyone. Everyone is guilty of something except him: civil servants, politicians, ex-politicians, businessmen, he left no one with a head,” he said. “In no case is it a complaint, as sa Unió has presented, as the Ethics Commission has presented, with crimes typified in the Penal Code and with a person who is accused of these crimes, which is Mr. Córdoba, and in which several councilors of this group have gone to testify as witnesses in this complaint presented by sa Unió“, said Alcaraz. In addition, he has remarked that the actions of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on the island weeks ago, which included the statements of councilors and the secretary of Consell, “have not been about any complaint of Mr. Cordoba or any of the issues that Mr. Cordoba moved; nothing has to do with urbanism, nothing has to do with the kiosks or the awarding of the kiosks, or anything else that Mr. Cordoba tried to explain yesterday.” “There is no investigation. There will be documentation that Mr. Cordoba has passed on past legislatures, on the current one, to the UCO. The investigation and the testimonies that exist at the moment are from members of sa Unió and arise from the complaint that was filed at the time, in May,” he added.
An implausible three-point proposal
For his part, Hugo Martinez has detailed that a few weeks ago “we presented a proposal to Mr. Cordoba to re-form the Governing Board, and there is no response. Therefore, we believe that as of today, Mr. Cordoba has no interest in forming a government team. In addition, he also told us a month ago that he only wanted the return of three councilors, that he did not want the return of all of them.” “It is clear that the only thing Mr. Cordoba is looking for is his own interest, is to continue to stay in the chair and govern at will in the Consell Insular de Formentera. And this is something we cannot allow,” he added. As they exposed, the coalition raised three demands to return to the Governing Board. “The first point was to accept the return of all, since he had also said on several occasions that he would reach out to all of us to return to form a government team,” he argued. “The second point was that he had to cede his Coastal and Primary Sector competencies, for more than obvious reasons. He was recused from the awarding of beach bars. Sa Unió filed a complaint against him for the consellerías he managed and for a series of acts he carried out, and we understand that he could not continue to have these consellerías, in addition to the fact that his officials asked him to change areas some time ago,” he explained. While the third – and even more difficult to face – was that “he should comply with the mandate of the plenary, which approved by majority in July that he should submit to a question of confidence, something we are still waiting for”. “Therefore, it was a three-point proposal to which he has not given an answer and we believe it is a resounding no, because if there is no answer, it is clear,” added Martinez.
No motion of censure
In addition, they have reiterated that both “Gent per Formentera and the Socialist Party have already made it clear that they will not support us in a motion of censure against President Cordoba. Gent per Formentera has not even deigned to sit down with Grupo sa Unió. After these weeks since the proposal was made to Mr. Cordoba, and seeing that there is no response, we believe that he does not want to return to form a government team”. Therefore, they said: “Enough of lying, enough of saying that we reach out to everyone, enough of saying that we are to blame for not wanting to return to work, because we have offered solutions. What is happening is that he, only and exclusively, wants to govern under his rules. He does not want to give in to anything.” “He wants us to be his subjects. And we are not going to allow this. Because we live in a democracy.”
