Coalición Canaria has criticized the mayor of Yaiza, Gladys Acuña, for commissioning a "designated" report that cost "18,000 euros" to "regularize almost all" the green areas that were occupied. "The City Council has hired lawyers and advisors, but has also paid 18,000 euros for this report so that someone would tell them what to do with the green areas," said CC councilor, Leonardo Rodríguez, this Monday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
In this report, according to CC, "1 or 1.5 percent of the territory of Yaiza" is analyzed. "On that little piece, they have said what invasions of green areas have occurred," explained Rodríguez, who has denounced "the different yardstick" in resolving these occupations. "It depends on who you are. If you are tall, blonde and with blue eyes, your green area is legalized, you don't have to return it, or pay anything. If you are shorter, yours is demolished," he denounced.
Leonardo Rodríguez did not want to give the names or surnames of the owners who can regularize the occupied green areas, but he did criticize that the mayor "has been with this process of recovering green areas for two years and has not recovered anything." Coalición Canaria has sent a query to the Government of the Canary Islands so that the Executive can explain "why some are legalized and others are not."
During the plenary session, the mayor defended that what "is regularized in the General Plan are issues of replanting" and assured that those 18,000 euros have been paid to an "external jurist because the City Council does not have a jurist" and that "they will allow the recovery of those green areas." "This is a delicate issue and if you believe that it does not comply with the law, go to the Prosecutor's Office," she snapped at Leonardo Rodríguez, of whom she said she was "tired." "I'm a little tired of everyone being put under suspicion," Acuña criticized.
"Those of Dimas, José Francisco Reyes and Bárcenas"
This same Monday, Rodríguez insisted that the General Plan is "made from Gran Canaria or Tenerife, but it has luxury advisors." "They are none other than the mayor of Yaiza, who was caught making the Plan in an apartment in Costa Teguise with a man who was serving a sentence and with a councilor of Urban Planning who was the one who gave birth to all the urban chaos that exists in Yaiza. The same ones who generated the problem are solving it. The government group, that is, the PIL-PNL-PP, those of Dimas, José Francisco Reyes and Bárcenas, are the ones who advise for the General Plan," he stated.
Therefore, Rodríguez has assured that his group "does not trust those advisors." "Let's see if they clarify who is responsible for some being legalized and others not," he stated. "Not only has he legalized the majority, but with very disparate solutions," CC has warned.
"Continuous insults" in the plenary session
In addition, Leonardo Rodríguez has criticized the mayor's behavior in the plenary session last Thursday, where she uttered "continuous insults." "As the mayor has no reasons, what she does is shout and insult, disrespect and lower the image that society has of politicians. She has to set an example and that loss of form and constant insults in the plenary session disqualify her and, therefore, the institution itself," he denounced.
Although he did not want to detail what insults he is referring to, Rodríguez did insist that they are "continuous." In this sense, he explained that when there were "few neighbors" left in the City Council plenary session, Acuña, "with the arrogance of the chair and the strength that being mayor can overwhelm everyone", uttered "repeated insults." "The bad luck that the mayor has had is that the plenary session is recorded and is posted on the Internet. Everyone can see how she spends them when there are no people in front," he criticized.
