The plenary session of the Haría City Council has approved taking legal action against the Lanzarote Island Water Consortium for having approved an amendment to its statutes that reduces municipal participation in this entity.
The Island Water Consortium decided, in an extraordinary session of its general assembly held in August, to modify its statutes, reducing municipal participation and, specifically, that of Haría, which has been set at 1.358 of the total (60% belongs to the Cabildo and 40% to the municipalities).
For this reason, the plenary session of the Haría City Council has approved denouncing this decision, with the vote in favor of the Haría government group and the vote against the councilors Victor Robayna (CC) and the three councilors of Compromiso, Chaxirazi Niz, Ambrosio Viñoly and Armando Bonilla.
The mayor, Alfredo Villalba, considers that this statutory modification of the Consortium goes "against the spirit of the entity, which is none other than to give voice and participation to all the municipalities and the Island Council." "A decision of this type," he said, "only reduces our participation and prevents the voice of our people from being heard, precisely at a very delicate moment, with our population suffering a real ordeal due to the consequences of water cuts practically every day."
For this reason, the government group will denounce this situation before the contentious-administrative court, requesting that the previous situation be restored and that the participation of the municipalities be allowed with the representativeness that corresponds to them, keeping aside the "battles that only defend specific interests in the face of the passivity of the Island Council."
In addition, the mayor regrets that he has not received any official communication from the Cabildo or the Island Water Consortium, something he considers "inexplicable, because the authentic reality is that, as a city council, we are owners and responsible for the integral water cycle."
