Lanzarote En Pie (LEP) in Teguise has expressed its concern about "the state of absolute abandonment in which the green areas and trees of the town of Costa Teguise are found", denouncing that the town hall, with a majority from the Canarian Coalition, "has let the gardens die" and, ignoring the technical reports, has allowed "dozens of Canary Island palm trees to get sick and die in this residential and tourist town."
The candidate for Mayor, Chona Brito Betancort, has expressed her surprise because, "after more than a decade of abandonment, the municipal government group has had the nerve to place, a few weeks before the elections, posters with the slogan "Costa Teguise, we make you pretty and green" while they continue to "allow the town's plant heritage to languish."
For the municipal candidate, "it is demonstrated once again that the reality of the municipality of Teguise is far from the propaganda that the Canarian Coalition sells," because according to her, "you cannot cover up reality with propaganda, insulting the intelligence of the citizens." Brito assures that "the town hall has shown absolute neglect of its functions throughout the legislature regarding the constant breaches of the company awarded the contract for the maintenance of the municipal gardens."
"The specifications of the maintenance contract include a series of clauses that the company must comply with, which specify rigorous care, irrigation, pruning and prevention of diseases and pests that have not been carried out in all these years, with the approval of the town hall, which has left one of the most important urban palm groves on the island in a deplorable state," say LEP Teguise.
The organization maintains that "the report has been delivered to the Council for two years, in which it insists on the need to remove dry palm trees that act as a source of infection, carry out generalized treatments to reduce diocalandra infection and control irrigation, the truth is that the government group of Oswaldo Betancort has preferred to look the other way, abandoning Costa Teguise."
"It is a joke that they put up posters with the slogan "Costa Teguise pretty and green" a few weeks before the elections"
For Chona Brito "it is a joke that they put up posters with the slogan Costa Teguise pretty and green a few weeks before the elections", when the government group of CC has known, for at least two years, "the situation of generalized deterioration of the palm grove since it has in its power the technical reports of the Area of Agriculture and Livestock of the Cabildo of Lanzarote", she emphasizes.
"A situation of neglect and abandonment that they now intend to make up for with electoral propaganda that we all pay for," concludes Brito.
