After the decree last summer of the government of the socialist Pedro Sánchez, leaving the City Hall without any compensation, not respecting the statutes once the concession expired and maintaining the same levels of participation in this mixed public company, the Central Executive has designated a speaker in front of Mercapalma.
The objective is none other than control the management of the largest logistics center for fresh products in the Balearic Islands, where the Ministries of Finance and Agriculture hold, through Mercasa, 45.21% of the shares and the rest (54.79%) belongs to Palma City Hall. All this until the drafting of the new statutes, after the 50-year concession signed by the central government and the city council ended this year.
He man in black from Sánchez to Mercapalma will be Gregorio Madero Ruiz-Jarabo, of the Higher Body of State Finance Inspectors.
This appointment is made without receiving any fees other than those corresponding to his capacity as consultative member of the Support Unit of the General Directorate of State Heritage.
In theory, the function that this official appointed by the Sánchez government will have will be to carry out the convening of the General Meeting within a maximum period of three months, in case of agreement with the government team of Palma City Hall, with which there is no communication after the end of the concession.
Although the initial period of permanence in the position of auditor is three months, it will be necessary to see, if there is no agreement, what happens and if their presence does not continue indefinitely.
Indeed, among the objectives of the new auditor of Mercapalma, who until now did not have a figure of this nature, apart from convening the general meeting, “to carry out the necessary procedures to satisfy the outgoing shareholder “, for which “will have technical assistance from all entities belonging to the public sector of the State linked to the management or liquidation of commercial companies.
The departure of Palma City Hall from Mercapalma is an option that, at no time, is considered by the municipal government and more without having monetized the assets after the expiration of the concession and taking into account the fact that there is 150 million euros at stake.
This is the estimated amount of the value of the real estate assets of the largest logistics center for fresh produce in the Balearic Islands, including the liquidation process after the end of the concession for the retrocession of all assets to the Town Hall, as established by the statutes. which were not respected by the Sánchez government, was stopped dead this summer by the president of Mercasa, José Miñones.
He objective of the speaker does the municipal government accept an indefinite concession in the new statutes and waive any liquidation of assets of the previous concession.
Thus, once again, the future management of Mercapalma will be present at the municipal plenary session next October, with proposals that had been left on the table during the previous plenary session.
In one of them, presented by the sole advisor of Podemos in Palma, Lucie Muñoz, The government team is invited to defend the legitimate exercise of the majority stake of Palma City Council in the commercial company Mercapalma by political means and, where appropriate, by judicial means, which, despite the intervention of Sánchez last August, did not take place.
In addition, the initiative which would in principle be supported by the municipal government of the PP, engage in a change of economic model guarantee its operation as a public service and the defense of the general interest above the simple search for economic profitability.
