Coalition Canaria regrets that "a great project for the integral management of the Islote de Fermina, designed during the stage of the nationalists in the island government, with Echedey Eugenio at the head of the CACT and Pedro San Ginés in the presidency, has been reduced to a simple cafeteria, almost four years after the works were finished".
Some works that began in January 2019 and culminated in August of that same year after an investment of 1.6 million euros, and whose results "have remained hidden during all this time since they will not be shown to the general public, at least officially, until this coming Saturday, January 28, 2023."
“In its day we were pleased that they gave continuity to the project that we had presented with Eva de Anta as mayor of Arrecife, but we already said then that, probably, the current government would distance its inauguration from the previous governments to erase the footprint of CC, as they have done with so many projects, and that it would seem that they had done it. What we never thought is that they were going to wait four years”, points out the deputy spokesperson for the Nationalist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, recalling that "the Arrecife City Council is the administration that owns the concession of the Islote".
However, from the Nationalist Group they point out that "beyond the time elapsed ignoring the previous management, what truly worries the nationalists is that the PSOE has reduced to ashes the project agreed upon in its day with the different political forces and whose objectives were presented in an act that included the presence of Eva de Anta (PSOE) as mayor of Arrecife, Ángel Vázquez (PP) as representative of the SPEL, and the then president of the Cabildo and councilor of the CACT, Pedro San Ginés and Echedey Eugenio, respectively (CC)".
"That comprehensive management project of Fermina, which had an economic viability plan, was articulated in several lines of work. The first reinforced the links of the Arrecife residents with the sea through the creation of the Arrecife Nautical Station, a space with sports and leisure activities for residents and tourists, research on Climate Change and the promotion of entrepreneurship linked to new technologies. I trust that the next government, presided over by Oswaldo Betancort, will recover that comprehensive management project for one of the most important enclaves of the capital, which we approved in its day by all the political forces with institutional representation”, says San Ginés.
In this way, from the Nationalist Group they point out that "the agreed project for the uses of the Islote would house the Lanzarote Coastal Observatory, which would also be one of the key gears of the Climate Change Observatory. Fermina also incorporated a Technological Innovation Center applied to the tourism industry (CITTLAN), which would put the cutting-edge technological capabilities at the service of improving the experience of those who visit us".
"But nothing at all. In fact, they said that they would change the location of the CITTLAN, belonging to the Lanzarote program as an Intelligent Biosphere Reserve ‘Smart Island’, a benchmark project in the world with 9 million euros of global investment planned with European funds and developed by the hand of powerful firms for the technological and tourist development in terms of sustainability of the destination, such as Telefónica and Deloitte, with important contracts", criticizes San Ginés.
However, "they neither changed the location of the CITTLAN nor gave continuity to the project, quite the contrary, Benjamín Perdomo (current CEO of the CACT) rescinded, throwing away years of work and hundreds of thousands of euros, dismantling the technological development team of the CACT and closing the embryo of this project in the offices of Calle Triana", explains San Ginés.
"The work that the PSOE is now boasting about three months before the next elections is palpable proof that, as this project required management capacity, they have limited themselves for four years to carrying out events restricted to a few in order to end with a campaign photo inaugurating a simple cafeteria, projecting large management losses”, criticize from the Nationalist Group.
"Benjamín Perdomo, who does not have a management and economic viability plan for the space, has stated on numerous occasions that they will open and that they will see what happens, in the purest style of a loaded donkey looking for a road”, concludes San Ginés.
