The councilor of the Mixed Group and mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, expressed this Tuesday his "unpleasant surprise at the triumphalist discourse" of the president of the Cabildo regarding the state of the island of Lanzarote in his first intervention of the debate and "where he has gone so far as to boast and sell as his own projects from the past executed by other administrations".
For Noda, "the reality of Lanzarote is very different; he denounces the parallel reality lived by the CC and PP government, which is incapable of seeing that there are people who do not have housing and who live in squalor, crammed together or in abandoned hotels. That our farmers live praying to our patron saint, hoping that the next day they will have water to irrigate, and our towns, our neighbors, await water to be able to live their lives normally."The councilor adds, "that they are incapable of seeing that there are long queues and completely outdated buses in the public transport service, **a deficient service** that does not reach everyone and does not reflect the true reality of the island's population."Furthermore, Noda argues that "we have been suffering for three years under a government that has the island paralyzed, that has Lanzarote totally abandoned to the whims of many photos, many ties, many parties, many trips, and much personal business."
“Everyone is aware of the unfulfilled promises of this president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, who said one thing during his campaign and is now doing the opposite. As an example, I refer to the unfulfilled agreements that this Cabildo house had with my municipality, such as the burial of the electricity pylons, the sinkhole in El Golfo, the Cooperation Plans withdrawn from the town councils, the scarce cultural and sports support for municipalities where the CC - PP tandem does not govern, the issue of transportation, which is dire in my municipality, the issue of water that is drowning us, housing, and all those commitments that existed with this Cabildo house. You have systematically dismantled each and every one of the agreements reached with this institution,” Óscar Noda defends.
During the session, the mayor of Yaiza and councilor of the Cabildo of Lanzarote addressed the president saying: "You have a problem, you will run in 2027 with empty hands, you will go down in history as the president who worked the least for the island of Lanzarote with the most expensive government, and who has nothing to offer citizens despite using tools from past centuries such as signing commitments before a notary, by the way, all of them unfulfilled commitments, and if we go by your word, you should have resigned a long time ago.""Not even the Tahíche residence is finished, because there is no new public transport tender three years later, because in housing matters, as you said, you have not created a fund of aid to facilitate access through rental, nor have you signed an agreement with the large property owners on the Island to make vacant properties available. And what can be said about water, where we have more outages than ever and where the service couldn't function any worse. You can only offer absolute nothing," he continues.
Óscar Noda urged Betancort to report "on a single project planned by you and completed or in the process of completion. Lanzarote is losing competitiveness in many areas and we see how our sister islands are overtaking us. Furthermore, given the economic imbalance and lack of control in which this Cabildo de Lanzarote lives, it has had to withdraw the Municipal Cooperation Plans for the town councils in order to comply with the Cruz Blanca residence and resume the work on the Tahíche residence. In other words, you dress one saint to undress another," sentenced the councilor from the Mixed Group.
For this reason, Noda has presented four important measures, extending a hand to the Cabildo of Lanzarote, aimed at solving the problems of water, housing, public transport, and the recovery of cooperation plans, which he hopes will be approved for the good of the citizens of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
