The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has accused the island's president, María Dolores Corujo, of "vetoing the debate" on the burying of the LZ-2 road in the Council of the Biosphere Reserve, where CC requested that this issue be addressed. Specifically, they submitted a motion to the Plenary for that body to analyze the study of the seven alternatives contemplated in the “feasibility analysis of partial burying of the road of regional interest LZ-2 in the section between Arrecife and the Lanzarote César Manrique airport”.
“Once again, Corujo's submissive government bows its head to the demands of Ángel Víctor Torres and accepts the most economical and environmentally aggressive option to please his president in the Canary Islands Government and Pedro Sánchez himself,” emphasizes the deputy spokesperson, Pedro San Ginés.
From CC they maintain that "this was precisely one of the reasons that led to the dismissal of the previous Minister of the Environment, Elena Solís, who did want to take the document to the Council of the Biosphere Reserve".
"It is not just any road, but the road that supports the most intense traffic on the island of Lanzarote and probably the most strategically important road project on which Lanzarote must make the best decision for the future,” says San GInés.
From CC they defend that "all the elements that are analyzed in the aforementioned study by the Government of the Canary Islands must be taken into consideration, without the economic cost or prior political agreements conditioning the making of a decision that must be approached from the island from the greatest technical rigor and trying to avoid the politicization of a debate in which Lanzarote and its territory have a lot at stake".
“That is why we are going to continue insisting and we are going to demand that the new Minister of the Environment open the debate to the entire island society, and without a doubt the regulated body where the largest spectrum of it is represented is the aforementioned Council,” reiterates San Ginés, who urges the new head of the Environment, Nicolás Saavedra, to “promote the debate and not allow Dolores Corujo to prevent it, as she did with her predecessor”.
"The island of Lanzarote, and in particular the Cabildo of Lanzarote, has an advisory body such as the Council of the Biosphere Reserve, in which the largest spectrum of island society is represented; all the municipalities of the island, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and all the groups with representation in it, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Canary Islands universities, unions, business associations, environmental groups, the Cesar Manrique Foundation, Associations of Farmers, neighbors, among other NGOs", the nationalists emphasize.
