The councilwoman and candidate of the Canarian Coalition for the Mayor's Office of the Teguise City Council, Olivia Duque, has described as "astonishing" the latest statement issued by the PSOE of Teguise in which they "accuse the current mayor Oswaldo Betancort of doing nothing to solve the future of the skeletons of Costa Teguise."
Duque criticizes that the socialist accusations are framed in an electoral contest "without conforming to the truth", and even more so when the socialist candidate for mayor of Teguise, Marcos Bergaz, "knows the procedure that we have open and in progress with the owner of plot 214 and the rest of the plots."
For the nationalist candidate, who is also a councilor for Urban Planning, the socialist councilor Marcos Bergaz "not only lies, but also takes us for fools", since according to Duque "the socialist's diatribe focuses primarily on the demolition of the constructed building and the assumption of the costs by the Consistory or by the property. From the government, we have been trying for a long time to undo this Gordian knot through negotiations with the owners who have expressed their intention to complete the work and put it into operation. A decision, it should be said in passing, that has been difficult for them to make, given that it is a company that is obliged to formalize agreements with a simple majority that until now had not been possible."
Olivia Duque asks the head of the list of socialists of Teguise to "give a solution to solve the problem of squatters, this being, and not another, the factor that aggravates the conditions in which this environment of the skeleton is currently found and, therefore, its solution process."
Duque assures "that there are many people and local entities that are tied hands to be able to solve this, since right now the squatters have more rights than the owners of the homes, seeming that the criminal is the owner." With respect to the serious problem of occupation that Costa Teguise suffers, the nationalist candidate reminds her political opponent that "it has been the PSOE and not another party, the one that has acted in a complicit way in the entrenchment of the squatters in private properties and the violent incidents derived from it that have taken place in the town."
"We are not only saying it from Teguise," Duque continues, but insists that "in the rest of the Canary Islands and throughout the national geography, more and more citizen voices are asking to accelerate the administrative procedures for eviction, or demand the hardening of the punishment for illegal occupation as it happens in France where penalties of up to 3 years in prison and heavy financial fines are imposed. However, in our country, the PSOE does not remedy this situation, nor does it assume any responsibility, nor does it attend to the claims we make from the municipal level to have more maneuverability. This is the truth of the matter," she sentences.
Olivia Duque intuits that "if the socialist councilor, Marcos Bergaz, does not get the missile of the skeletons to work, he will focus the problem of occupation from another perspective, which could well be the lack of public housing in Teguise." In this sense, Duque hopes that "he does not bet on this strategy, because he assures that we have land enabled for it and evidence of the absence of response to this request by the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands, as is the case with our residence for the elderly and other welfare facilities in the municipality." Finally, Duque wanted to highlight that "the City Council has managed to have the demolitions paid for by the property, and not the municipal coffers, and that stings the PSOE."
