José Torres, member of the Commission for Security, Emergencies and Health of the Platform of the Municipality of Haría (PMH), has denounced that the recent signing of an autonomous agreement on emergency matters by the Government of the Canary Islands "once again places at the center of the political and legal debate the management of public security and emergency services" in Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
Thus, Torres has indicated that "while the citizenry is unaware of the true technical, economic and legal criteria used to justify this type of agreements", the autonomous Executive and the Cabildo de Lanzarote "continue consolidating external operational structures through administrative formulas that could be avoiding the principles of publicity, concurrence and equality" contained in the Public Sector Contracts Law.
In a press release, he has warned that "it is especially serious" that this new political-administrative movement occurs "with complaints and actions already sent to the Prosecutor's Office related to contracts, extensions, territorial expansions and possible duplicities of services" in the field of emergencies and rescues in Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
In this regard, he has pointed out that the agreement published by the Government of the Canary Islands "recognizes operational activations, coordination from CECOES 1-1-2, participation in ordinary emergencies, public event preventives and economic coverage for displacements, accommodations and indemnities". However, he has indicated that "simultaneously it tries to expressly exclude itself from the application of the Public Sector Contracts Law".
In this way, he has indicated that the question "a large part of the citizenry" asks is: "With what technical and legal reports is it justified to continue expanding this model while there are open investigations and serious doubts about the possible covert continuity of public services under different administrative formulas?".
In this regard, he has pointed out that Lanzarote cannot become "a political laboratory where transparent public procedures are replaced by agreements, extensions and successive accords made behind the backs of the citizenry".
While he has recalled that "security and emergencies are essential services". And precisely for this reason they must "be managed under the maximum principles of transparency, public control, oversight, and legality". To which he added that the citizenry deserves to know who makes these decisions, under what criteria, who benefits politically, and why "parallel structures continue to be promoted while the irregularities reported to the Prosecutor's Office remain unclear".
"Transparency cannot be selective and legality either", he concluded.
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