The ruling Partido Popular used its absolute majority at yesterday’s plenary session of the Council to approve the setting up of a new company to manage the municipal water supply.
The new company, Aguas de Narixa S. A., will be a joint venture with 50% of the capital provided by the municipality and 50% by a private company. The proposal will now be published in the Boletín Oficial de la Provincia (BOP) – Provincial Gazette – as a prelude to the submission of tenders by interested parties.
The Opposition PSOE and the IU council member all voted against the proposal. The spokespersons for the PSOE and IU, Ángel Ramírez and Manuel Valero, maintain that the plan has not been sufficiently well thought out, will not benefit the consumer and they doubt the legality and appropriateness of the proposal. They also believe that the scheme, as it stands, hides a disguised loan.
The Partido Popular rejected all the claims by the opposition, as well as some made by various private companies, and say that the proposal has been duly checked by municipal legal experts and there are no grounds to doubt its legality. They also dismiss the idea that the scheme hides any sort of loan.