PSOE Leadership Dispute & Granada Urbanism Case
PSOE Leadership Dispute in Andalusia
The eight provincial secretaries general of the PSOE in Andalusia have recognized the chairman of the Board, Jose Antonio Griñan. The provincial leaders have left the decision to advance or not the congress of the PSOE in Andalusia to the general secretary, Manuel Chavez, and Griñan.
The President and Secretary General will decide when and where appropriate, always serving the party’s internal reinforcement and external image. Griñan wants Chavez to resign before taking the plunge. Griñan wants the baton, and it is best to celebrate an extraordinary congress beforehand to end a bicephaly that has resulted in a difficult problem. The situation should not last until 2012.
A majority of secretaries saw more disadvantages than advantages in holding an extraordinary congress, given the current economic crisis. Neither Deputy Secretary Luis Blackboard nor the secretary of organization, Rafael Velasco, attended the meeting convened by Griñan, which was considered an abnormality. For the first time in many years, people are beginning to speak of the existence of an anarchic crisis.
Opposition Questions PSOE Leadership
Since the operation, the internal debate within the PSOE was qualified by the PP spokesman Ona Hope as failing to solve the problem of leadership within the PSOE and failing to engage with the citizens of Andalusia. The coordinator of United Left considered Griñan’s search for permanent leadership within his party ridiculous.
Gomérez Prosecutor Withdraws Charges Against Former Manager
The Attorney yesterday dropped the charges against the former manager of Urbanism of Granada, Manuel Lorente, for the death of an Ecuadorian worker in the demolition of a building in the Cuesta de Gomérez in December 2004. Prosecutors argued that they could not prove that Lorente could control the source of danger from his post.
The request for three years in prison and four of disqualification was removed. One of those responsible was the first subcontract and a worker of the second company. The prosecution has reduced the sentences for the remaining accused but said that the death was not a freak accident but an absolute dereliction in the performance of the obligations of those who set the security measures.
Two local architects who are accused also had to ensure security, given the status of the Municipality of the promoter as performing subsidiary. At the hearing, it was understood that neither he nor the technical project safety plan, or study, specified what guaranteed the work, although necessary documents and requirements were missing. The coordinator responsible and municipal experts say that a security plan was unnecessary because it was an emergency demolition, something that the prosecution does not agree with.
Minimal inquiry would have been sufficient to detect the source of danger. Payment of compensation to the families of the dead Ecuadorian worker, working without a work permit and no contract, was made before trial.
Additional Charges Reduced
The monitors withdrew two additional charges processed and reduced the penalty to the other.