Ana Serna, spokesperson for the Alicante Provincial Assembly government team, accused Generalitat head Ximo Puig of “seeking a new ally in Ciudadanos in a strategy of forcible destabilization and subjugation of the provincial institution”. . , while advocating the stability of the government team, which “will remain united and unified during the remaining two months of the legislature, scrupulously observing laws and regulations.”
In this sense, the second vice-president stated that the Provincial Assembly Personnel, Secretariat and Intervention Departments have started to work on arranging them “according to the law and regulation of this institution, not according to the whim of the opposition”. “Everything that concerns the deputies and advisors appointed to their districts.
Serna, once again valuing the work of Javier Gutiérrez and Julia Parra, the heads of the different government areas they hold, criticized that “the remains of Ciudadanos were handed over to Ximo Puig, the Catalans and the ultra-leftist.” Podemos to destabilize Diputación”. “This is the price the C’s new leadership has to pay Puig for trying to lower the electoral bar from 5% to 3% two months before the election,” Serna said, insisting that the price was Puig’s obsession. for the Assembly”.
A government spokesman recalled that “in addition to passing the Co-operative Fund Act to flex the legitimate financial autonomy that has been bestowed upon us, they have sought to pass a no-confidence motion on this institution “more than once over the years” from Valencian socialism, “without dialogue”.
“Ximo Puig and his radical left-wing trio cannot support a Provincial Assembly that defends the interests of citizens and municipal councils, not kneeling in the face of the humiliation of placing Alicante on State investments as the last province in Spain. Or two years after we transfer the water we need. We will defend at the base,” Serna argued.
Regarding the government team, the vice president defended the career of this institution over the past four years, where it has “operated in an exemplary manner, always seeking dialogue and agreement,” which – he added – ” has allowed for the highest level of investment in the history of this City Council. ”.
Serna described the work of Parra and Gutiérrez as “exemplary” and said that “they haven’t changed, what has changed is the leadership of Ciudadanos who has to pay the price of trying to destabilize it in order to serve Ximo and his associates.” organisation.
Therefore, he insisted that this government team “will remain united and harmonious until the end of the legislature, and we will do so in full compliance with laws and regulations.”
In this sense, he affirmed that both Julia Parra and Javier Gutiérrez will retain their powers “as the unassigned MP figure is absolutely legal”, although they will only receive fees for attending committees and plenary sessions. In the case of consultants, the technical services of the Provincial Assembly are examining their situation “and as soon as we receive the reports, we will take them to the plenary meeting to inform them and to adopt the relevant agreements in accordance with those established by law and regulation.”
Finally, Serna dismissed the opposition groups’ criticism of the defectors, reminding that “Puig personally met with the C’s defectors to approve the 2017 budgets”.
At the same point, he also criticized the situation at the Crevillent City Council, where L’Esquerra de Crevillent expelled Josep Candela, a councilor who “continues to hold government powers” from the party. “What does the council spokesman have to say?” “And everybody in this municipality knows that this councilor has a deal with Compromís for the next election,” said Aitana. Moreover, who has more Crevillent than what is cooked at home?
For all this, the Provincial Assembly spokesman, who also reviewed the list of Compromís and PSOE defendants who have public responsibilities in the Community, insisted that “lessons have not been learned from Ximo Puig and his associates”.