The Ministry of the Interior stopped this Monday the works for the installation of the SIVE in the Guinate viewpoint, thus giving a new term to the City Council of Haría to accredit the transfer of the land that had been agreed last March. Within the conversations between both institutions, and to formalize the suspension of the works, the acting mayor, Víctor Robayna, has signed this Tuesday a decree requesting that the stoppage be of 7 days, in which they hope to complete the procedures.
As La Voz already reported, the mayor signed another resolution two weeks ago addressed to the Government Delegation, assuring that he had the necessary land to "make it available to the Ministry." However, in that same writing he admitted that in the Cadastre, the land was not registered in the name of the City Council, but of a private company.
Now, in the next few days they hope that the owner will formalize the transfer to the Consistory, so that it in turn can make it available to the Ministry of the Interior. As Víctor Robayna has pointed out in statements to La Voz, the land will be transferred to the City Council "for a stipulated time", which he assures will be around "20 or 40 years." Once the transfer is accepted by the City Council, which the mayor assures will be "in the seven days requested to the Ministry", an extraordinary plenary session will be convened to approve the transfer to the Interior.
"We hope that this issue will be resolved before the end of the year", said the mayor, who acknowledges that the City Council took "two months to respond", during the administrative cooperation process for the location of the SIVE. The mayor has stated that the process has been delayed by "the delay" of the administrative procedure itself, conditioned by the "lack of personnel", or "worker vacation periods."
However, he maintains that from the City Council of Haría "they have never stopped complying with the administrative processes", and alleges that "social pressure" has led the Ministry to recognize that the site where they finally started the works for the installation of the SIVE, by way of emergency, "was not the appropriate one."
"I do not think that the Ministry has acted in bad faith," said the acting mayor, who has positively valued the work of the senator for Lanzarote, Manolo Fajardo, thanking "enormously the predisposition to find a solution."
In this sense, the senator for Lanzarote, Manolo Fajardo, recognizes in statements to La Voz that the place "is not the ideal one", although he maintains that the City Council of Haría has had time since March "to find a solution". Despite this, he assures that the Ministry of the Interior "will not restart the works", waiting for the City Council of Haría to comply with the premise of the transfer of the land that had been agreed nine months ago.
Fajardo maintains that "it was the City Council of Haría" who last March issued a press release saying that "everything was solved", and that the time elapsed has shown "that it was not."
Despite the fact that the problem has been delayed in time, the senator hopes that from the City Council there will be "good will", to be able to find a solution to the location of the SIVE, which he recalls serves to "detect and save lives at sea."
