A year and eight months after the Cabildo government group approved the temporary transfer of powers of the Island Water Council to the Canary Islands Government, the General Board of this body has agreed to "withdraw the request." This has been revealed by Coalición Canaria, which has described what happened as a "new and resounding management failure of the island's president, María Dolores Corujo."
According to the nationalists, the reason that the proposal and the legal report include is that "to date there is no record of any response having been received" to that request, which they consider to be a "ridiculous argument."
"In other words, from August 2021 to November 2022, the only thing that the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo are capable of giving as an explanation for this failure and the total paralysis they have caused is that there is no record of any response having been received. It's a complete joke," emphasizes the deputy spokesperson for CC-PNC, Pedro San Ginés.
Faced with this situation, CC demands that the Island Water Council fill all the vacancies that still remain, which was the reason given for submitting that transfer request to the Canary Islands Government in March 2021, hoping that this body "will be able to carry out the dozens of projects pending since the last term."
"Millions of euros that have not been executed"
In this regard, the nationalists state that there are "millions of euros of remnants in the accounts of the Island Water Council for investments that have not been executed, among other reasons for having unsuccessfully relinquished its powers, in addition to the fact that there is no environmental body to report, because Corujo has also delegated powers in this matter."
Furthermore, CC once again questions that attempt to delegate powers, pointing out that "at no time was it clarified whether the contracting of more than twenty works with projects for more than 5 million euros of remaining funds pending execution was also transferred." "A contracting that, until the failed delegation, was not done by the Council either, but by the Cabildo by order of the latter, it is true that with little success," they add.
"Since then and until today, neither the Council, nor the Government, nor the Cabildo have assumed the competence and responsibility for contracting. And hence the total paralysis of investments," says Councilor Domingo Cejas.
