The municipal group of Lanzarote En Pie (LEP) in the Arrecife City Council has described as "shameful" the plenary session held during the day of this Wednesday, January 5 to address the controversial payment of the Ginory plot requested by the political groups of the opposition.
In her assessment of the plenary session, the spokesperson for the LEP, Leticia Padilla, criticized in the first place the fact that the payment of 90% of the debt was signed on December 31, having already convened this extraordinary plenary session. "I do not understand the rush to pay this loan that ultimately had an approved payment plan and that was being paid on a monthly basis. It cost nothing, for the democratic health of this city council, to wait the six months that the law gives to the Council of Ministers to resolve positively and lower the fair price, if that were the case, with the real meters that this plot has and not those that have ended up being paid."
On the other hand, the spokesperson for LEP stated that "we did not understand and we still do not understand what the mayor, Astrid Pérez's, rush is in making the transfer of public money to the property effective."
In her speech, Padilla agreed with the Popular Party, the Canarian Coalition and the Socialist Party that "the plenary session has been a media circus, but by these three parties that have governed the city council in recent years, and who are jointly responsible for the situation in which we find ourselves right now."
Padilla has lamented "the lost opportunity to, through debate, clarify the situation of the Ginory plot, because none of the remaining political forces that make up the plenary have taken seriously a plenary in which the parties were always more concerned with blaming each other, than with talking about the problem generated for Arrecife."
In this sense, from LEP we consider that we have been the only formation that during the plenary has made contributions to the debate and raised numerous questions that have not had any type of response from the government group.
Leticia Padilla has also highlighted her disbelief at the development of the plenary session in which "we did not understand how the PSOE announces with great fanfare that it has new evidence that indicates that a large part of that price is going to be paid for what was a sheet of water and for land that is not owned by the expropriated party and when the plenary session arrives, they do not name the report, and what is worse, only LEP has asked about it.
"Nobody seems interested in knowing the truth of this matter." In this sense, one of the great doubts that the celebration of this extraordinary plenary session has left, Leticia Padilla explained, has been why the expert report commissioned by the Arrecife City Council in 2012 has not been taken into account "that exposes the inconsistencies of the property with this plot and nobody has done absolutely anything."
The aforementioned expert report that clarifies many things and that could be decisive when making a decision on the payment of the Ginory plot, reflects, among other issues, the irregularity that implies the existence of two cadastre numbers with the same plot, in which neither the meters nor the price coincide with what was stated by the alleged property, and makes it clear that 40% of the land that it requests belongs to the Coast Demarcation.
These data, Padilla has denounced, "the Arrecife City Council had in its possession in 2012 and the lawyer of the consistory, Gervasio Martín Acosta, had knowledge of it, at least since May 2019. I wonder why it was not in the Ginory file, or why it has not been brought to the attention of the judicial authority."