The report of the Commission of the Code of Ethics and Good Governance of the Consell de Formentera, issued at the proposal of the PSOE, leaves a trail of easily refutable contradictions and, above all, hardly justifiable omissions, the most notable, the incompatibility of the then vice president Javier Serra. The aforementioned report has been the protagonist of the political debate on the island the week in which it has been a year since the beginning of the crisis as it has been used by GxF and PSOE of Formentera to offer their support to Sa Unió as long as José Manuel Alcaraz resigns, pointed out in the report for recording Cordoba and for not returning phone and computer after being dismissed. Thus, it is noteworthy that the members of the commission, the former notary of Formentera, Javier González Granado; a technician of Litoral who asked to be transferred to avoid Córdoba, Lidia Serrano Tur; Neus Costa, retired teacher; and the councilor of GxF, José Marí Mayans, considered that they did not have to analyze that Javier Serra, president of Compromís, was councilor of the insular government maintaining his shares in Marina de Formentera, a company that has contracts in force with the administration, in this case the Port Authority. And that, curiously or not, let expire the Special Plan for the Port of La Savina and that today is still waiting for a public explanation for it. Obviously, neither has the Commission made reference to the fact that the president has publicly said that he has requested a report to the secretary of the Corporation and that this report has never arrived.
The lies of Sa Unió
Nor has the Commission analyzed that Sa Unió announced that it had been requesting a report from the secretary for weeks to determine the consequences of his expulsion from the Sa Unió group and that the secretary himself denied it. Nor that Sa Unió announced that it had requested a report on the same matter from the Autonomous Community Lawyer’s Office, which was also false for the simple reason that the Community Lawyer’s Office does not have among its functions the issuance of reports for a consell.
Bias
It seems to him a matter at least as relevant as to deserve his analysis that the president took a few weeks to sign the controversial minutes of the Governing Board in which Sa Unió avoided declaring the lots of the beach bars deserted. As published by La Voz de Ibiza, the draft of the minutes initially drafted by the secretary was modified, a fact that, however, is ignored when relating the facts on this point.
Double standards
Another omission of the Commission is the lack of analysis of the criticism and public scorn suffered by the Human Resources technician who drafted the report, at the request of the president Llorenç Córdoba, with which he intended to declare the pending lots deserted. Thus, the partiality of the Commission is evident when it comes to protecting certain officials and forgetting others. In the minutes of the controversial Governing Board of March 25, it can be read that “Mr. Portas Juan says that they do not accept this report (that of the HR lawyer) and that it is a report that should not be taken into account” and “that they do not trust it”. Without giving a single explanation. Nor do they say anything about the fact that that same day the secretary deliberately omitted the reading of the second point of Article 201 of the Public Sector Contracts Law, contrary to their thesis and favorable to those of the president, which provoked their angry reaction. Even less that the comptroller used an argument contrary to the bases to discredit the content of the report, since the bases expressly prohibit the outsourcing of services, as La Voz de Ibiza has advanced. Not a word deserves that the recusal of the best-scored kiosks was enough to discredit the report, which would end up making it easier for Sa Unió to award the kiosk lots to seven companies that would not have won without the changes in criteria.
The facts analyzed
These are the glaring omissions identified by La Voz de Ibiza from the report of the Code of Ethics Commission, without prejudice to the fact that there may have been others. For whatever reasons, however, the members of the body decided that they should analyze the following issues:
- José Manuel Alcaraz’s recording of a conversation with Llorenç Cordoba.
- Llorenç Cordoba’s request for a bonus
- Lack of respect for officials
- Unjustified delay in the approval of the minutes of the Shareholders’ Meeting
- Leaks to the media
- Lack of communication and respect between the president and his ministers
- Use of telephones and computers by sa Unió after his resignation
- Appointment of Asier Fernandez as Litoral’s island director
- Secret pre-election agreement
- Use of public resources for private purposes
They did so, without giving a hearing to the interested parties and without taking any interest in the veracity of the facts.
Untouchable officials
From the reading of the report, it is clear that the identity of the officials may not be mentioned in the media and that their actions may not be the object of political or media criticism. Except in the aforementioned case, of course. The Commission reproaches the president for daring to criticize the work of the Contracting Committee, plagued with irregularities as La Voz de Ibiza has been publishing alone. In this line, it also deserves the reprobation of the Commission that the current insular director of Litoral, Asier Fernandez, criticized the contest under suspicion before his appointment.
Information censorship
The report is also an attack on the right to information enshrined in the Constitution. In addition to demanding that civil servants should not be criticized for the mere fact of being civil servants, it also questions whether the media should have access to public information and whether this information should be disseminated. It does not seem right to the members of the Ethics Commission that citizens know that Litoral officials have asked to be transferred from one area to another due to lack of confidence in Llorenç Córdoba. Nor that the content of the draft of the controversial minutes of March 25 in which Sa Unió prevented to declare the lots of the beach bars deserted and which was later modified was known. Nor that La Voz de Ibiza exclusively disseminated the aforementioned report of the Human Resources lawyer.
Political debate
Despite the fact that freedom of expression is enshrined in the Constitution and the limits established in the Civil Code and the rest of the legal system, the Code of Ethics Commission interferes on this point to denounce the lack of respect between the president and the councilors of the government team.
“Members of the government team (…) repeatedly disrespect each other and frequently fall into personal attacks in a reciprocal manner and without one party being the victim of the other, but rather as part of an internal struggle that deteriorates the functioning of the Consell de Formentera and the good image of the institution, using disqualifications and spreading rumors or accusations that in no case are based on evidence,” says at this point the report.
