"I don't understand how, after a decade and despite the courts having ruled in favor of the City Council, it is possible that the municipality still does not receive what it is entitled to." This was stated this Friday by the mayor of Haría, Chaxiraxi Niz, despite the fact that it was precisely her CC colleague, former mayor Marci Acuña, who declined to request the execution of that ruling issued in 2015, after reaching an agreement with the then president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés.
In the same press release, the mayor also announces that she will appeal the two latest court orders, which this week have overturned her claims and has refused to annul that agreement and the addendum that was subsequently approved to put an end to this litigation. Thus, it makes it clear that the Consistory will continue to litigate to try to invalidate its own acts, while accusing the Cabildo of "subjecting the northern population to an unnecessary conflict."
The first agreement they are trying to annul was signed by Acuña (CC) and San Ginés (CC), under whose mandate in the Cabildo that lawsuit was lost. And the person in charge of the City Council when they started it was José Torres Stinga, who was also in Coalición Canaria at the time. However, Niz blames the current PSOE government in the Cabildo for that "conflict", and criticizes that it has made public this week those two judicial orders that have overturned the new strategy of the Consistory.
"The Government group demands that the Island Corporation act with institutional loyalty and abandon political revanchism, using an administration of which the people of Haría also form part to give continuity to a political war against a formation," they claim in their press release.
From not wanting to include the word compensation to demanding "compliance with the ruling"
In reality, the role of the PSOE began in the current legislature, when the socialist Alfredo Villalba negotiated an addendum to that initial agreement of Acuña and San Ginés, so that the compensation would be expressly included, after the auditor warned that what was signed was harmful to the City Council. This started a conflict with CC, with whom Villalba governed in the municipality." In fact, the party publicly acknowledged that it asked for the elimination of "the articles that refer to the execution of the ruling, compensation, damages, interest, etc.", maintaining the theses of San Ginés, that the Cabildo did not lose that lawsuit but withdrew.
Finally, the approval of that addendum went ahead thanks to the divided vote of CC, but shortly after it cost Villalba the Mayor's Office, who faced a motion of censure. Now, the same CC that approved the initial agreement, which allowed the addendum to go ahead and did not want the word compensation to be included in that agreement to execute the ruling, affirms that "it will ensure compliance with the ruling of the Cueva de Los Verdes and will focus its management on defending the interests of the population of its municipality so that not a single euro is lost of the resources that correspond to its inhabitants during this media conflict that the Cabildo de Lanzarote wants to generate, a right that has been recognized by the Justice."
The statement sent by the government group of Haría also includes statements by the current deputy mayor, José Torres Stinga, who now shares a position with CC again, whom he faced a decade ago precisely on this issue. Thus, Torres "demands" that the president of the Cabildo "abandon sectarianism and political partisanship" and "worry about guaranteeing compliance with the Law and the rulings."
"María Dolores Corujo must look after the interests of Haría and the rest of Lanzarote, not those of Alfredo Villalba and his lost battles," says Torres Stinga, who was the one who proposed that the nullity of the agreement and the addendum be urged, and that at the same time the execution of the ruling be requested, having seen both claims rejected with two orders that harshly question the strategy of the City Council.
For her part, the mayor criticizes the "media propaganda" that she considers the Cabildo is doing for having made public the content of those orders, and affirms that she has "misinterpreted" them. "As the president of the Island Council was in charge of proclaiming when the first ruling regarding homologation was issued, these orders are not final and do not contribute much to the litigation raised," adds Niz. "Let's dedicate ourselves to solving the problems of the people and let the Court resolve what in justice corresponds to the people of Haría," concludes the first mayor.
