The president of the Popular Party of Lanzarote and councilor of the Cabildo, Astrid Pérez, has pointed to the Canarian Coalition as "solely responsible" for the budgets of the island institution not being able to be approved so far. In this sense, she has denied "categorically" that the PP "put obstacles to its processing" when it was part of the government group.
Pérez has pointed to the nationalists as the "responsible for the delay" that has occurred in the accounts because, when the time came, "they refused to agree with the Popular Party on the investment chapter." "While the PP councilors transferred the investment proposals from their respective areas, the Coalition councilors never sent us theirs," the island president of the PP has now stated.
"Without that basic document it was impossible to continue advancing, and that document never arrived because CC had no intention of negotiating this chapter and defining and establishing with the Popular Party the priorities of the Cabildo in terms of investment according to the social needs and those of each of the different municipalities of the island," Pérez criticized, a week after the president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, broke the pact and reached an agreement with the PSOE.
CC "did not want to continue advancing"
The former vice president of the Cabildo has denied that the PP did not want to approve the budgets and has indicated that the proof that her party did want to move the tests forward is that, "fulfilling its responsibility, last December, the EPEL of the Tourist Centers already had approved the forecasts of income and expenses for 2012".
"The only thing that the councilor raised to us, and that the Popular Party fully agreed with, were the cuts in the different councils and in current expenses, among others, but from there the Canarian Coalition did not want to continue advancing. There was never a document that included the proposals from all areas and that would serve as a starting point," said Ástrid Pérez.