The mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, said on Tuesday that he was waiting for the disciplinary file opened by his party, the PSOE, but “in harsher terms”, since he has been provisionally suspended from membership but has not been decreed his provisional expulsion.
In a statement, Mena has indicated that he will continue in office and that he will wait for the PSOE to instruct the disciplinary file and present the corresponding allegations.
The Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE provisionally suspended Mena, councilor Luis García and the president of the Local Association of this Tenerife municipality, Agustín Marichal, until the file is resolved.
The national, regional and insular directorates of the PSOE had requested that both the mayor and the former councilor for Urban Planning deliver their minutes after the conflicts and the internal division in the municipal group, which has an absolute majority in the council.
The conflicts arose between public complaints for alleged urban irregularities that have been taken by García to the Prosecutor’s Office.
In a statement, Mena stressed that the federal leadership of the PSOE has not proceeded with the provisional expulsion “contrary to what had been advanced weeks ago, which has only organic effects, within the scope of his party.”
“The situation announced by the PSOE does not affect, therefore, the institutional sphere as mayor, but only as a militant”, according to Mena, who values that the party “has opted for the precautionary suspension of militancy, instead of expulsion precautionary “.
The mayor has indicated that now the appointment of an instructor of the file will have to take place, open the procedure for the presentation of allegations and in his case “the beginning of other ways in defense of his fundamental rights as a citizen and as a socialist militant.”
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