CC demands in Parliament that the town councils "stop paying with municipal resources for the removal of boats"

Jesús Machín Tavío denounces the expense that the councils of Haría, Teguise and Tinajo are having to assume, when "it is not their responsibility"

November 23 2021 (13:51 WET)
The CC parliamentarian for Lanzarote, Jesús Machín Tavío
The CC parliamentarian for Lanzarote, Jesús Machín Tavío

The Lanzarote parliamentarian of the Canarian Nationalist Group, Jesús Machín Tavío, has addressed the Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, to demand that the municipalities of Haría, Teguise and Tinajo "stop assuming with municipal resources the cost of removing the boats that arrive on the coasts of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, since it is not their responsibility."

"It is unsustainable for these three local administrations to be the ones, even though they have no responsibility in this matter, who are paying the price of removing the boats from their coasts,” Machín pointed out.

Thus, the Lanzarote deputy recalled that, for example, the port of the northern town of Órzola, in the municipality of Haría, "is the responsibility of Puertos Canarios", an organization headed by Franquis himself, and that, to date, "has not shown any interest in intervening in the removal of the boats that are accumulating there."

"Everything that happens inside is their responsibility, the City Council has little to say about the management of the port of Órzola, therefore why when boats have been deposited, do they expect the Haría City Council to assume the expenses and the management? This is called neglect of their powers,” said Machín, who stressed that the removal of a boat costs “1,000 euros on average.”

For Jesús Machín, this is just another example "of the disastrous management that both the Government of the Canary Islands and the State are carrying out on the migratory issue." And, he assures, "neither is the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands assuming the cost of removing boats from those areas that are its responsibility."

"If complicated situations occur in Ceuta, it acts immediately, but here in the Canary Islands it comes on vacation at most and does not even talk about the issue. We have a Government of the Canary Islands that does not act or protest against the situation of neglect that is occurring on the part of the Spanish Government,” said Machín Tavío.

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