The general coordinator of Podemos Canarias, Laura Fuentes, considers it "vital" that recognized professionals from the field of environmental protection and the fight against corruption be incorporated "into the technical commission that will assess the Coastal files that will manage those linked to the recently transferred Coastal competition".
After the signing of the transfer of Coastal powers to the Canary Islands last week, the purple formation believes it is necessary to establish a "guarantee system" that allows the Canarian sovereignty over the coast "to become an authentic and consummate fact", excluding forever "the ghost of corruption, depredation and destruction."
"Having recognized professionals from the field of environmental protection and the fight against corruption has to be a pillar of the new stage in our relationship with the environment that begins with the transfer of this competition," says Fuentes.
In this sense, she emphasizes that this competition implies "an enormous responsibility", and that it "will allow the Canarian people to advance in the sovereignty and care of the territory we inhabit collectively."
However, Podemos recalls that the Canary Islands "has suffered until very recently a system of aggressive speculation against its coastline that today makes us be alert", so the purple formation considers it "inadequate" that the tourism employers participate in the management of the files, as requested by the sector.
"Experience in the Canary Islands tells us that the political-business game around the management of the coast does not usually end well," Fuentes insists.
As examples, she has listed the "scandals of the 'Monkey Beach', the 'Mamotreto' of Las Teresitas or the 'Yate case' in Lanzarote", because all of them "were possible due to a connivance between certain businessmen and certain politicians that generated a very serious wound to our land and to our memory as a people".
For the purple formation, the institutions have to guarantee that episodes like these can never happen again in the islands, "and for this it is essential to avoid that in the management of the coast converge interests other than the common good".
"The incorporation of independent profiles with trajectories in defense of the general interest would be a great first step to guarantee a transparent and exemplary governance," concludes the general coordinator of Podemos Canarias.
