The Popular Party of Gilet has once again accused the mayor, Salva Costa, of continuing to deny the opposition access to municipal documentation. This situation occurs despite a prior warning from the Síndic de Greuges (Ombudsman). However, the mayor's office denies these accusations and assures that there is no information blockade.
The spokesperson for the PP in Gilet, Francisco Fabuel, has denounced in a press release the “lack of transparency” of the municipal government. He has criticized the mayor for continuing to withhold the documentation requested by opposition councilors, despite the intervention of the ombudsman.
“"We have requested a lot of information throughout this time to be able to carry out proper oversight in defense of our neighbors' interests, and it has not been provided to us."
According to the popular party, the autonomous institution had to intervene due to the “refusal of the City Council to hand over requested information” by the opposition. The Síndic de Greuges reminded the council of its legal obligation to cooperate and warned that the lack of response violates the right to access public information. Fabuel states that the PP has had to resort to “higher authorities” to demand documentation they consider necessary to perform their oversight duties.
The popular spokesperson has also criticized the way municipal plenary sessions are being convened. He denounces that the socialist government has made extraordinary and urgent plenary sessions the usual norm “to prevent residents from intervening and the opposition from scrutinizing.” In this regard, he lamented that, so far this year, “not a single ordinary plenary session has been held,” a situation he attributes to “lack of planning.”
In response to these accusations, the mayor of Gilet, Salva Costa, has flatly denied any concealment of information and has defended the transparency of the municipal government. As explained by the mayor, so far in 2026, the PP spokesperson has not registered any request for documentation. The only requests made have been for the use of municipal rooms for meetings, requests that, according to the mayor, were granted.
Costa also assures that during 2025, Fabuel submitted six requests. One of them corresponded to documentation related to a credit modification debated in plenary and which, he emphasizes, was already available to all councilors in both informative commission and plenary session. The rest, he adds, were requests for municipal spaces and the request to withdraw an item from the agenda.
From the mayor's office, they also reproach the popular spokesperson for his limited participation in municipal activity. “In plenary sessions, he either does not appear or does not intervene to ask anything, which is where he should be doing his opposition work,” municipal sources state. The mayor questions Fabuel's involvement in local political life, noting that “he has not appeared at the City Council for many months, only coming to some plenary sessions when it suits him; he didn't even show up for the most important one, the budget session.”
