The councilors of the Popular Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote assure that "they will not renounce continuing to defend compliance with the mandate of the plenary session to modify the Ordinance to eliminate the two cents that were imposed on the fuel tax in 2014, under the mandate of CC".
This has been confirmed by the former vice president and PP councilor, Jacobo Medina, who has assured that his political formation "will continue to demand" the suppression of this tax, because "on an island where the price of gasoline and diesel is among the highest in the Canary Islands, it is totally unfair to continue maintaining this tax when the works that were being financed with the earmarked fund have already concluded”.
“If the Cabildo has a budget to hire island directors at 85,000 euros per year, it also has the economic capacity to face the maintenance of island roads without those two euro cents”, said Jacobo Medina, who is forceful when pointing out that “agreements are there to be fulfilled, especially when there is no technical impediment to do so”.
“What the PSOE, Podemos, or any other political force cannot do is trample on the highest governing body of the institution, as is being done in this case, and at the same time and in the same plenary session, pretend to give lessons on defending legality and the general interest”, denounce from the Popular Party.
The popular ones assure that the reaction occurs "after verifying the change of vote of the PSOE". "After supporting the elimination of the tax in October 2019, in the last plenary session they voted against it with arguments that have nothing to do with what the socialists have defended until now", they point out from the PP.
“That a president who said she came to restore dignity to the Cabildo dedicates herself to playing with such important issues that concern citizens says a lot about her and the interests she claims to defend”, denounces Jacobo Medina, for whom Corujo's behavior regarding the fuel tax is “grotesque and a mockery of citizens”.
"Equally contradictory is the position of the councilors of Podemos, who have also taken a 180-degree turn and have ended up also opposing the initiative presented by the Popular Party, when they have always been in favor", they point out from the PP.
“What was previously unfair is now seen as absolutely essential and necessary to continue maintaining services of the institution of a social nature. A falsehood like many others because what is collected is an earmarked item that can only be invested in roads”, Medina points out.
