“With the contradictory emotion of never having wanted to write this letter,” Olmedo Mayor Alfonso Centeno said goodbye to his neighbors late Monday in a letter in which announces his resignation after being sentenced to nine years of disqualification for the Meseta Ski affair.
After several days of reflection during which his PP colleagues had called on him to take the step and submit his report, Rye He finally announced his “resignation from his duties as mayor and councilor, thus complying with current legislation.”
In the communication, he emphasizes that he would have “liked to lead a transition process” coinciding with his “retirement from work”, but emphasizes that his colleagues in the municipal group, with Myriam Martin in front They are “sufficiently prepared” and ask the Olmedians to give them “maximum trust”.
“I leave my public responsibilities with the pride of having served my neighbors and my country with honor,” says Centeno, who concludes his last letter as mayor with the “deepest gratitude to all the Olmedians who have helped me throughout these years” with their support, affection and friendship. “Olmedo, it was an honor to serve you“, he concludes.
Last Friday, the Valladolid court handed down a sentence in the case of Meseta Ski against Centeno for a continuing crime of administrative procrastination in the development and construction in Villavieja del Cerro of a leisure and adventure complex with two dry ski slopes as its flagship infrastructure, which resulted in a nine-year ban sentence.
The PP expelled him from the party and asked him to submit his report, but in a letter sent by Centeno to his neighbors, he asked him to give himself “a little time” to decide “with serenity” on the steps to take after his conviction. That same Monday, the president of the Provincial Council and the PP of ValladolidConrado Íscar, had said that he “expected something else” and reported that he had asked him personally and publicly “to do what suits him.” Finally, the day ended with his resignation.
