The deputy delegate for Rural Neighborhoods of the Diputación de Zaragoza, Francisco Sanz, has reiterated this Friday the breaches of the Zaragoza City Council in relation to the last agreement of rural neighborhoods and has responded to the statements made by councilors Alfonso Mendoza and Paloma Espinosa, whichhe has described as «impudence and shamelessness».
«About the statements of Mr. Mendoza and Mrs. Espinosa I am only going to say one thing: asa citizen and public representative, I am ashamed that some councilors of the City Council of Zaragoza dare to say what they have said in their press conference,» Sanz criticized. «The facts are what they are and, when the time comes, the courts will make them clear if necessary: the Zaragoza City Council only executed 3 of the 9 million euros that it should have invested in new works for rural neighborhoods as agreed in the last agreement. Therefore, the remaining 6 million have to be returned to the Provincial Council,» he added.
Sanz recalled that 4 of those 6 million euros not executed «were not transferred to the City Council because the Provincial Council verified that it was failing to comply with its obligations». And he added that «the other 2 million are going to be claimed in the monitoring commission that we are going to convene next week, after meeting with the mayors of the rural neighborhoods. To say that we are the ones who owe them 4 million is to laugh at the people of Zaragoza. The City Council acts as if the agreement had no legal value or legal consequences. To ignore what really happened and ask that they act as if there was an agreement is to deceive citizens and not have the seriousness and rigor that is expected of an institution like the City Council,» he insisted.
- CRITICISM OF THE CITY COUNCIL
- ACUERDO DE BARRIOS RURALES 2017-2019 Y 2021-2024
- THE CITY COUNCIL LET THE LAST AGREEMENT FALL
CRITICISM OF THE CITY COUNCIL
«Mrs. Chueca has not stopped boasting about her management in the rural neighborhoods of Zaragoza, but the reality is that she and her team have only been able to execute a third of the new works to which they committed,» Sanz denounced. «In addition, Mrs. Chueca will have to explain why she let the 2021-2024 agreement lapse, even though she knew that she had to extend it or agree with us on its modification, as a report from the Municipal Intervention warned her half a year earlier. They neither requested an extension nor did they want to hold the monitoring commission that we asked them for before December 31, 2024, and the agreement lapsed,» he said.
«Since then, Mrs. Chueca and her team have not stopped blaming the Provincial Council for their own incapacity, giving figures and data that, at the very least, are not true, although today has been the height of impudence and shamelessness. Nor have we been invited to the inaugurations of the works that have been carried out with money from the Provincial Council. As we have already said on other occasions, they make the party and we pay for it,» continued the deputy delegate of Rural Neighborhoods.
