The mayor, Ignacio Gragera, presides over the plenary session in a file image. /
“I would love to see him in court,” Pedro Miranda replied
The mayor, Ignacio Gragera, showed on Monday his intention to take the socialist councilor Pedro Miranda as the alleged perpetrator of an alleged crime of slander. “I’d love to see you in court,” Miranda replied.
The scuffle arose during the question and answer session of the plenary session that is being held this morning. The socialist Pedro Miranda referred to the planned works to move the Elvas avenue roundabout, up to the metal building of the UEx.
«You have decided to spend a million euros, a million euros, to move a roundabout about 50 meters from nothing. They want to spend that money, we believe that only and exclusively to fulfill the wishes and interests of real estate developers who will surely become much richer by selling the thousands of homes they are going to build on that site. We do not question your interest in earning money, but we do question your interest in public money. And since we question it, we want to defend that and we want them to allow us and give us access to two documents. Or in the City Council or in the court we need them to tell us the date of approval of the subdivision project for sectors 9.2.3 and 9.2.4 and that they provide us with the date of receipt by the City Council of the road widening works of Elves. We need them to go and defend public money.”
“Before the first request fades,” said the mayor, “it occurs to me to file a lawsuit for what he has just said.” Next, Gragera stated that he would commission the secretary to extract Pedro Miranda’s statements in the Plenary Hall to see if they could constitute a slander. Gragera, a lawyer by profession, thinks so.
“How slanderous? Are you a judge or what? (…) I would love to see myself in court with you on this matter, ”Miranda snapped.
“What you just said is very serious. And that’s fine. You have the bad habit of believing that you go unpunished and that, within the joke, you release personal and non-personal barbarities. Now it is OK. It is unfortunate what you have said today, “replied the mayor.
“On this other matter you will also take me to court,” said Miranda. She then referred to the construction work on the pool on the right bank, which has been practically paralyzed for months. In recent weeks it has been known that the rise in costs and the placement of solar panels to supply the building’s energy needs make the work more expensive. This has made the City Council decide to change iron for wood in some components of the work.
The PSOE has spent months insisting on the delays in the works. Now they ask for documentation. Miranda requested “the new contract with the successful bidder, the technical reports that have been made to endorse that contract and that they provide us with the measurements and budgets of the project with which the work was awarded and the measurements and budgets to carry out the new contract. That they provide it to us in case it is necessary to resort to the court. They try to deceive us and the citizens with this matter». Miranda finished: “I will be happy to go to court with both questions.”
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.