The New Canaries councilor in the Teguise City Council, Fernando Jiménez, has requested for the next ordinary plenary session an appearance by the conservative mayor of the Canarian Coalition (CC), Olivia Duque, to explain "the entire process carried out by the areas responsible for designing and implementing the Famara Cove Mobility Plan".
For Jiménez, “there are many doubts surrounding the implementation procedure of this mobility project. From the participatory process initiated in 2022 by Geoparks, to the meetings held by the city council with the residents and which led to the establishment of some agreements, to the decision to locate 200 parking spaces in the heart of the town so that after two days they eliminated some of them because the mayor was unaware of them.”
“A plan that was never a plan, although they sold it as such. A citizen participation process that did not take residents into account. An objective, to decongest the illegal parking lots on the beach, which has not been achieved. And a series of developmental actions where the vehicle prevails over the pedestrian,” says councilor Fernando Jiménez.
Antidemocratic attitudes
Similarly, the Canarian councilor will also bring to the next Teguise plenary session a "formal reprimand to the traffic and mobility councilor", considering that his "attitudes towards the right of the residents of Caleta de Famara to show their discontent were not correct and in accordance" with the position of public representative of the municipality.
“What the government group has tried to do is apply the maxim “divide and conquer” by putting into "question the legitimacy of some residents to protest about public matters that affect them due to the fact of not having been born in Lanzarote. A dangerous, undemocratic and exclusionary behavior with a part of the Lanzarote population that has decided to live and work here,” says Fernando Jiménez.
