The Local Committee of the Canarian Coalition in Haría has lamented in a press release the recent declarations of the socialist mayor, Alfredo Villalba, whom they accuse of "trying to divert attention from his own lack of management and planning."
"The PSOE of Haría is once again throwing up a smokescreen to hide its incompetence, when the reality is that this City Council has not been able to execute or justify several of the Cooperation Plans since 2021. What is lacking today is not resources, but management and commitment to the municipality," says the local secretary of the northern nationalists, Víctor Robayna.
From Coalición Canaria, they recall that "the socialist governing group itself approved in May a budget of more than 12 million euros, to which another 2 million from the interest of the Cueva de los Verdes are added, and yet, at this point in the year, not a single relevant investment project has been executed in Haría.”
"They speak of institutional abandonment when they are the ones who keep the municipality in paralysis and neglect," adds Robayna.
The nationalist leader emphasizes that, in addition, "the Haría City Council has failed to comply with the spending rule, which has led to an adjustment plan that compromises investments for the next two years." "They have mortgaged the future of Haría with their mismanagement," he denounces.
Coalición Canaria insists that "not a single euro of the Cabildo's money has been lost here." "What there was, was negligence on the part of the PSOE, which let 3.5 million euros of EDUSI funds slip away," Robayna recalls. "With the PSOE, municipalities received nothing if they weren't of their political persuasion. Today, funds are distributed according to objective, not partisan, criteria."
From CC, it is emphasized that "the PSOE left the town councils without a Cooperation Plan in 2019, a reality that those who then blocked island resources now seem to forget." “They speak of equity, those who distributed millions only to their town councils and left the rest with nothing. The PSOE strangled the municipalities that were not socialist; we treat them all equally,” Robayna points out.
The local secretary also points out that "86% of the resources of the Cooperation Plan were unexecuted when the PSOE left the Cabildo." "More money was not needed, management was needed. The difference is clear: the PSOE turned the funds into clientelism, while Coalición Canaria turns them into projects for the people," he says.
Finally, Robayna argues that "politics is not about spending, but about managing responsibly. Coalición Canaria's priority in Lanzarote is clear: residences, accessibility, and quality public services, not the partisanship or victimhood that the PSOE has accustomed us to, both in Haría and in the rest of the island."
