- The former mayor of Cartagena, José López, has repeatedly said that some family members, spouses, and friends of PP councilors would be on the payroll at the FCC company without going to work, and some working in other municipalities.
- According to the Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "it has been almost a year since Mr. López made these demonstrations, and reported that there was an ongoing municipal investigation whose conclusions would be transferred to all groups, however, Today no communication or report has been received in this regard. "
Cartagena, Thursday, July 6.
Citizens have asked the legal services of the City of Cartagena if a procedure has been initiated or the prosecution has been transferred to the facts denounced by the exalcalde of Cartagena, José López, for which some council members of the Partido Popular would have relatives and friends Charging FCC without going to work and others would be working in other municipalities.
The orange formation wants to remember that at the Plenum of September 2016, the current councilor for Sustainable Development, then mayor, Jose López textually stated that "we found in the cleaning company some women of councilors and relatives of councilors of the Popular Party placed in The company.And some without going to work.Charging and without going to work (...) We have been trying to clean the cleaning company for a year. "
"(...) that occupying part of the concessionaires is called revolving doors (...) we have recognized that there are twenty people, who were paying them from here and who served in other municipalities and then we have the duplicates of people who have to To be cleaning the schools and that they send them to clean the Batel ".
According to the Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "it has been almost a year since Mr. López made these demonstrations, and reported that there was an ongoing investigation whose conclusions would be transferred to all groups, however, on the day of Today no communication or report has been received in this regard. "
Manuel Padin argues that "far from recanting or clarifying these serious accusations, at the plenary session of last June it was again carried out."
Regarding the cleaning contracts, parks and gardens and maintenance of the municipality's sources, José López stated the following by looking at the Popular Party bench: "(...) you left tied and tied these contracts and continue to defend them from the opposition to That nothing changes, possibly because they have many friends working in these companies, and even the wife of some former councilor of the City of Cartagena, if not in companies here, linked to the same company in another municipality nearby, very close to the Own region, and some who have been hired for eight years not going to work and taking payroll (...) ".
According to Manuel Padín, "in view of the seriousness and reiteration of the allegations about these events, which could constitute a crime, this group wants to know whether any proceeding has been initiated in relation to this matter or whether it has been referred to the Public Prosecutor's Office."
For the Citizens' spokesman, "although some are accustomed to throw the stone and hide the hand, Citizens believe that if a person is aware of a fact that can be a crime, what he has to do is go to justice, which We can not play with that information politically, it's about being responsible and consistent. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena