The corporation appoints a lawyer to defend the plenary agreements denounced by the government of Ponteceso

This was agreed by the plenary session in an extraordinary session held on the morning of this Wednesday

09 jun 2021 . Updated at 11:57 AM

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The municipal corporation of Ponteceso agreed, on the morning of this Wednesday, the appointment of a lawyer to defend the plenary agreements adopted by the plenary session on March 29, which were denounced by the socialist group, led by the mayor, Lois García Carballido, through the Contentious-Administrative court. Specifically, the modification of positions and formation of the informative commissions, the modification in the composition of the contracting table, the repeal and creation of a new municipal organization regulation, or the authorization of an investigation commission on the installation of cameras. of video surveillance in municipal offices, among others.

Once the session had started, the municipal secretary asked Lois Garca Carballido and her two companions, Mara Teresa Choucio Calvete and Noela Mara Varela Surez, to leave the room since, as an involved party – complainants in this case – they could not participate in the meeting. voting.

A vote, by the way, very controversial, in which some representatives of the opposition came to charge harshly against the municipal secretary and auditor, who even came to accuse of favoring the interests of the mayor to the detriment of the corporation as a whole. . In fact, the official had to stop the feet of some councilor due to the comments received: We are not going to tolerate disrespect to our professionalism, she came to say in the plenary hall. He pointed out that the technicians are there to advise and that political decisions are up to the plenary to approve them, or not.

The procedure to be followed now remains to be determined. In the session it was clear that the option of requesting the collaboration and mediation of the legal services of the Deputation of A Corua it has been discarded, since the provincial entity only defends the councils in litigation presented or raised by third parties, that is, natural or legal persons outside the municipalities.

In fact, PP, APIN, and the non-attached councilors have already put on the table the name of a lawyer, Alejandro Lpez Snchez, who has a period of 10 days to present his writing in response to the complaint presented by the socialist municipal group by the plenary agreements of March 29.

Now, how is the bill of the lawyer paid? According to the intervention, if the amount does not exceed 15,000 euros and the term of execution of the service is less than 12 months, the hiring of the lawyer can be processed as a minor contract. The question is also whether there is an economic item enabled in the City of Ponteceso to pay these expenses or, if not, you have to make a credit modification and transfer it, later, to plenary session for approval by the corporation.

Once this issue had been discussed and approved in a vote, the mayor and his two companions returned to the plenary hall and, despite the fact that the opposition demanded a political debate on what happened, the councilor decreed the end of the extraordinary session.