Granada (EFE).- The acting mayor of Maracena (Granada), Berta Linares (PSOE), pointed out for her possible connection to the kidnapping of a former councilwoman, has announced that she is taking a step back to facilitate a pact that allows her party maintain local government and prevent the entry of the “ultra-right.”
Linares has announced her decision a week after assuring that she would remain a socialist candidate for the investiture despite the case opened in the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) that analyzes her possible link with the kidnapping, last February, of the Councilor Vanessa Romero, also from the PSOE.
For this reason, Noel López, then a partner of Berta Linares, remains in prison as the only detainee, who in the 28M elections obtained four fewer councilors for the PSOE than in the previous elections.
The acting mayoress has expressed her concern for all the public services that have been put into operation over the last decade and has decided to leave her leading role so as not to become the “excuse” for “the right and far-right to come to the Maracena City Council ”.
“I am not even investigated or charged, nor have they called me to testify yet, but in the face of so much noise and malicious hoax I prefer to step aside and let a new team work for the good of my city,” Linares summed up, who said he was confident that Justice proves his innocence.
This step back from Linares coincides with the negotiations of the rest of the parties to form a government in which the PP seeks agreements with acronyms from the center and the right to avoid a new mandate from the PSOE.