The Valsequillo City Council has taken a significant step in regularizing its finances by settling the debt to suppliers inherited from the previous government group (Asba-CC) this month of June, which amounted to a total of 1,740,454 euros.
The settlement of these unpaid bills was one of the priorities of the current government pact. Mayor Juan Carlos Hernández Atta defended the measure, stating that "companies that provide services to this council, many of them based in Valsequillo, have every right to be paid for the services rendered. We could not allow them to continue bearing the cost of the previous paralysis."
To address these payments, the municipal Intervention department conducted an exhaustive tracking and technical validation process. Between November 2025 and March 2026, five "Omisión de Función Fiscalizadora" (OFI) proceedings were processed to recognize and validate over 600 invoices that the previous government had left unprocessed.
Thanks to this procedure, almost all of the inherited debt has been settled. Only about 30 invoices remain temporarily unpaid due to formal defects, but they will be settled immediately once the technical issues are resolved.
“"Paco Atta knows perfectly well that, by strict legal procedure, until we paid and settled the millionaire debt he left us, the administration could not handle the treasury generated by current services. Once this burden is lifted, we will fully focus on the suppliers of the new fiscal year."
Councillor of Economy and Finance, Víctor Navarro, revealed that over 150,000 euros in invoices will not be payable through administrative channels as their legal payment deadline (set at 4 years) has expired. Affected entrepreneurs will now have to resort to legal action through claims for unjust enrichment to recover the money for services forgotten since 2013, despite the previous mayor publicly assuring that no outstanding invoices remained.
Navarro criticized the "absolute neglect and completely arbitrary management" of the previous government group, which left "many companies in our town unprotected, piling up unpaid invoices in drawers dating back even to 2013 and allowing administrative claim deadlines to expire."
The uncovering of these overdue invoices will cause an immediate statistical increase in the institution's Average Payment Period to Suppliers (PMPP). However, Víctor Navarro clarified that this is a consequence "accepted in favor of honesty," as "from now on, the figure will be one hundred percent real. We will not hide or leave invoices uncounted in drawers to mask the PMPP, as was systematically done in the previous era."
The current government asserts its commitment to "information and transparency," noting that data for the first quarter is already visible. Recently, Asba had highlighted that Valsequillo was the only municipality in Gran Canaria without registered data on the PMPP in the Ministry of Finance records, which hindered public oversight and respect for suppliers.
