The City Council finishes paying the 7 million debt inherited with the largest construction company from the PSOE period.

The debt of the socialists resulted in a judicial sentence to the Consistory, which has had to pay with high interests works that remained unpaid, such as those executed in the urbanization of Seghers, the Police School or the redevelopment of the Pabellón del Carmen.

The Estepona City Council continues to liquidate debt inherited from the period when the PSOE governed the city, which totaled 304 million euros. Among these amounts is one close to seven million euros derived from non-payments to what was the largest construction company of the socialist stage, with which a large number of actions were contracted in the municipality such as the urbanization of Seghers, the Police School or the redevelopment of the Pabellón del Carmen, among others.

In 2011, the departure of the PSOE from the City Council left a debt with this company of almost seven million euros, specifically, 6,977,025 euros. In 2012, and through the so-called decree of payment to suppliers, the company managed to collect 4,515,217 euros. The rest was litigated with the City Council in court. The justice finally determined that the Consistory should pay the amounts owed, in a new condemnation to the municipal coffers derived from the nefarious socialist management.

The deputy mayor attached to the area of Finance, Ana Vilaseca, explains that when the current government team came to the mayor’s office in 2011, it found that the debt incurred by the PSOE governments during its mandate with this construction company was close to 7 million euros. “It is the same company that was awarded the Fire Station that they also did not pay,” he points out. “This company was presented to almost all the contracting of works that the City Council offered in those years of the PSOE. They got the contract in minor actions, such as small works in streets, neighborhoods and other paving; but also others in much more important competitions such as the urbanization of the Seghers, the Police School, the redevelopment of the Pabellón del Carmen or the work on the road to Genalguacil.” However, Vilaseca recalls, “these actions ceased to be paid”. During the PSOE stage in the City Council of Estepona the measured period of payment reached 1,492 days, when the established by law is 30 days.

In this regard, the councilor of the Treasury area recalls that “the mismanagement of previous governments has caused not only the return of subsidies, taxes and debts, but the surcharges that involve interest on arrears”.

The councilor points out that the Consistory is making a “major economic effort” to solve the “nonsense generated by previous governments, such as more than 90 million euros plus interest only of bank debt they left”, and explains that thanks to the latest data of budget surplus that today have the municipal coffers by the effective management of the current government team, we are taking administrative steps to pay the entire bank debt in advance, so that soon, Estepona will be one of the few large municipalities with zero debt”.