The senator for Lanzarote of the Popular Parliamentary Group, Joel Delgado, has presented a motion in the Upper House demanding that the Ministry of Finance launch a review of the boundary carried out in 2006 in which several privately owned plots in Caleta de Sebo were included within the description of the Autonomous Body of National Parks, affecting more than 40 homes.
The senator, who assures that "he had already started negotiations with the previous government of the Popular Party", said this Friday that "the only viable solution to the situation is for the State to re-inspect the existing milestones on the ground, which are the reference for the previous boundary carried out in 1965.
"When we became aware of the situation through the letters sent to those affected, the first thing we did was verify for ourselves that the milestones are there and that a clear line is drawn in which the plots are outside the land owned by the state, as well as the homes that are in some of them," the senator stressed.
For Delgado, the regulation files opened by the State "put residents in a situation of vulnerability that would only be remedied if technicians went to La Graciosa and verified the real location of the milestones established in 1965."
"The mayor hasn't lifted a finger since"
The senator, who has been accompanied in the appearance before the media by the councilor of the Popular Party in the City Council of Teguise, Jonás Álvarez, and the local secretary and resident of La Graciosa, Nieves Arrocha, has also asked the City Council of Teguise for "greater involvement in resolving the problem since, for the moment, it has not sent the topographic study to which it committed to the Government."
In this sense, the popular councilor stated that in the next plenary session of the corporation he will ask the government of Oswaldo Betancort to send the georeferenced topographic study that he had announced and that "according to sources from the Ministry, it does not appear in the department." "Almost a year ago he met with the residents and they were told the steps that the City Council was going to take, but we see that in all this time the mayor has not lifted a single finger to safeguard the interest and rights of the residents," he lamented
Delgado has defended that the more than 40 affected residents "are not to blame for the errors that the State has committed, so it would be totally unfair for them to be harmed by this situation." "Even so, there are some owners who are already paying the consequences of the new boundary because they have had to stop their works until the conflict is resolved," Nieves Arrocha denounced.
