The groups that make up the opposition to the Orense City Hall -PP, PSdeG and BNG- demanded this Friday the resignation of the councilor of Democracia Ourensana, Francisco Lorenzo, for his involvement in a road accident, a matter on which the three groups denounce the “lack of information” and the “evasiveness” of the municipal government led by councilor Gonzalo Pérez Jácome. Especially after The voice of Galicia releases part of the report, which reflects how Lorenzo’s parents explained to officers that he “had been drinking excessively.”
What happened dates back to the afternoon of July 18, when a BMW entered the roundabout in front of the Blanco Amor high school at high speed, left the road and collided with a protective fence in front of the school. The driver of the vehicle, instead of stopping, allegedly continued driving without affecting any other vehicle and, immediately afterwards, parked his car in other streets in the neighborhood, which showed signs of involvement in the accident. According to the report published by The voice of Galicialocal police showed up at the home of the vehicle’s owner, city planner Francisco Lorenzo, and “his parents” told officers that “they couldn’t question him because he was out with friends and had drank too much.” »
Thus, officers were unable to test him to see if he was driving under the influence of alcohol, but according to the report collected by The voice of GaliciaFollowing these events, an administrative complaint was filed against the councilor “for reckless conduct with clear disregard for the lives of others”. After learning this news, the three opposition parties – including the PP, which promoted Democracia Ourensana to the town hall and government of Galicia’s third city – demanded explanations and the resignation of the mayor if the facts were confirmed.
“We condemn the total lack of transparency on the part of the municipal government,” denounced the Popular Party, whose municipal spokesperson, Sonia Ogando, regretted that the municipality “exceeded all the legal deadlines available to it to respond” to repeated questions. this training provided on this incident. “The people of Ourense deserve a government that tells them the truth. If what is known from the report is confirmed, we will demand the immediate resignation of Councilor Francisco Lorenzo, and the mayor must assume his political responsibility in trying to cover up this very serious fact,” Ogando said.
The Socialist Party expressed itself in the same sense through its spokesperson, Natalia González, who asked for public explanations from Jacome and his advisor. “If what happened is confirmed, we understand that the only way is to formalize his immediate resignation and apologize given the seriousness of the events and his status as a public official,” declared the socialist , who sees it “a question of ethical consistency and responsibility”. , despite this, he belongs to a political party without rules like Democracia Ourensana. Furthermore, the socialists, like the popular ones, denounce “the concealment of information” on this subject by the local executive, “by requesting it in the territorial assemblies and by registration and not having received a response”.
For his part, the municipal spokesperson of the BNG, Luis Seara, demanded the “immediate dismissal” of Lorenzo and extended the responsibility to the security advisor, Antonio Fernández. “We have repeatedly asked the Citizen Security Advisor for information on what happened and more recently on the findings of the report. “For all these months, the only thing we have been given is excuses and evasions,” Seara said. For the nationalist municipal group, “the most important” and the reason why they ask for his resignation is the fact that “the officers in office conclude that he was driving under the influence of alcohol and with a clear disregard for life of others.” for which the nationalists believe that “it is absolutely unjustifiable that he stays in his post even one more minute”. For Seara, there are two scenarios: “either” the mayor submits his resignation, or the mayor “is obliged to dismiss him immediately”.
Furthermore, they also demand the resignation of the citizen security advisor for “having hidden the facts while having knowledge of them”.
