The Animalist Party Against Animal Abuse (PACMA) has announced that it will go to the Transparency and Access to Public Information Commission after receiving as a response "the administrative silence of the Haría City Council", after making a request for information on the situation of almost twenty unresolved complaints of animal abuse in the municipality.
This situation was alerted in March by the ADEMAL Association, which claims that in Haría "there is no interest in protecting animals or punishing abusers."
"We imagined that the City Council would try to do with our request the same as it has done with the rest of the citizens who have asked them for explanations: delay or, directly, ignore us, so we will have to take a further step and put this in the hands of a higher body", explains the party's spokesperson, Yolanda Morales.
After the prudent response period enabled for the Canary Islands administrations, PACMA assures that it will proceed to ask for explanations about the opacity that, according to the conejera association, characterizes this City Council: "Responding to claims, doubts and questions is not an option or a personal decision, but an obligation faced by all public administrations", explains Morales.
The president of ADEMAL, Raquel Córdoba, informed the media in March that “most of the complaints are for improper facilities.” “Here everyone takes and puts the animals between pallets. Also, they are tied for life. The Law says that the owners must provide them with food daily, and some are left unattended and go from time to time to feed them,” adds Morales.
PACMA warns that the situation with animals in Lanzarote "seems critical", but everything points "to a worsening in the municipal term of Haría". "Animal protection groups ensure that if sanctions are not applied and abusers are not prosecuted, it will be impossible to get out of the backwardness in which the islands are regarding this issue", they point out from the party.
From PACMA they will expect a prompt response from the Haría City Council once a special request has been made to the Transparency Commission to clarify "why there are about twenty complaints (many of them years old) that have not been processed or appear to be in the process of being so".
