Canal Gestión: "We are not going to bend to the political and illegitimate interests of those responsible for the Cabildo"

Canal Gestión and Lanzarote have been the protagonists in the plenary session of the Community of Madrid this past Thursday. Alejandro Sánchez, a deputy from Más Madrid in the Assembly of Madrid, asked the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso about the management of the company Canal Isabel II, in charge of water supply in Lanzarote.

In response to the deputy, the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Interior, Carlos Novillo, accused the island council and the Consortium of "having been breaching this contract for years and have made a completely wrong decision, so we are going to defend both through legal and criminal channels to recover all that investment that Canal has indeed made in Lanzarote".

Novillo pointed out that they are going to proceed to "accelerate divestment" and defended that "what we are not going to do is bow to the political and illegitimate interests of those responsible for the island council".

For his part, Sánchez reminded the Madrid government that Canal Gestión "has lost more than eighty million euros in these thirteen years of management, has had to borrow more than 150 million euros from Madrid and more than half of the desalinated water continues to be lost because the network is not in condition".

As you know, Lanzarote and La Graciosa have been in water emergency since last year due to continuous water cuts that occur daily.

The deputy asked the minister how this situation would harm the people of Madrid and the company Canal Isabel II itself. The minister began by saying that the objective of Ayuso's government is "to defend the rights of the people of Madrid where they are attacked, as the Cabildo of Lanzarote has done".

Due to the fact that the minister did not answer the questions posed, the Más Madrid deputy listed the losses and the money requested by Canal Gestión in Lanzarote, "which amounts to a total of 350 million euros", he pointed out.

"The PP has kicked Canal out of Colombia and the Dominican Republic and now they are kicking us out of Lanzarote and with the vote in favor of the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and his friends from CC", Sánchez added.

In his response, the minister began by saying that he "does not know where he gets those figures from" and has announced that they will demand payment of 40 million in concept of tariffs "because we have a firm ruling from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands for the breach of the CPI that the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Water Consortium must update".