Coalition Canaria in the Cabildo is studying to take legal action against the president, María Dolores Corujo, whom she accuses of "obstructing" the holding of Plenary Sessions, "denying the population of Lanzarote and La Graciosa the right to fluid control of government actions." CC points out that this violates both the regulations of the Corporation and a plenary agreement that "under democratic consensus, unequivocally stipulates the date, the last Friday of each month, on which the plenary sessions of the institution must be held and that the current president systematically skips without motivation”.
Coalición Canaria affirms that, “of all the plenary sessions held since the beginning of the mandate, 32 until July 26, only 4 of the ordinary ones complied with what the signed agreement indicates, and were held on the last Friday of the month: December 27, 2019, July 31, 2020, September 25, 2020 and January 29, 2021”.
“We have requested on several occasions the cessation of these practices with which the government group obtains an illegitimate political advantage by delaying the plenary sessions when the issues to be discussed are not of interest to them, either to gain time to cover up some bad action, or until these cease to be news, or even so that the proposals accumulate and the opposition has no material way of presenting to the plenary all the issues of citizen interest that should be debated. In this way they hinder the fundamental right to monitor and control their actions, something that should not be allowed under any circumstances”, emphasizes Councilor Óscar Pérez.
CC also highlights that the president “skipped the ordinary plenary sessions of December 2020, June 2021, the plenary sessions of the debate on the state of the island and, for the moment, that of September 2021”. A delay in the opinion of the nationalists “without any justification or excuse and which adds to the more than two years it took to convene the Biosphere Reserve cabinet”.
“Every time we ask for explanations about the plenary sessions that have been skipped or the repeated postponements, the answer is always the same: We are told that the changes, cancellations or unjustified absence of plenary sessions, obey a unilateral decision of the cabinet of the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo”, adds Pérez Cabrera.
From Coalición Canaria they recall that it is not the first time that the party “demands that what is established in the institution's regulations be respected and minimally complied with and that the plenary sessions be held on the agreed day, that is, the last Friday of each month”. “To live up to the position she holds, Corujo must comply with the mandate of the body in which all the political forces elected in democracy by the citizens are represented, contemplating in her agenda her main obligation as president or resigning from some of her positions. It is something so basic that we shouldn't even be talking about it”, Pérez concludes.
