The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) contributes eight proposed resolutions to the Debate on the state of the island that will be debated and voted on in the second session of the extraordinary plenary session that is taking place in the Jameos del Agua auditorium.
“We could have presented many more, because there is a lot of work that this government group has not done in these three years, many plans that it has not launched, many sectors that have been abandoned and many management decisions that have not been taken, but eight is the maximum limit of initiatives that CC has been allowed,” says the deputy spokesperson for CC-PNC, Pedro San Ginés.
Thus, for the nationalists it is "vital, for example, that the Plenary Session of the Cabildo of Lanzarote promote the signing of a third Plan of social healthcare infrastructures with the Government of the Canary Islands, and adhere to the Decree of Social Agreement so that the NGOs that have historically provided dependency services that are likely to adhere to said decree, can choose to continue providing them by presenting their offer in this type of restricted tenders for NGOs, as is being done in the rest of the Canary Islands."
From CC they recall "that for many decades different NGOs such as AFA, ADISLAN or EL CRIBO have been providing different dependency care services in various social healthcare infrastructures, in some cases of a similar nature such as the Dr. Domingo de Guzmán Family Respite Residence, which has practically become a high-requirement residence, but also of another type, and that have to do with other types of disabilities or mental health."
However, San Ginés criticizes that “this government, without waiting for the full validity of the Social Agreement that would allow this type of dependency services to be put out to tender, giving options to choose to continue providing it to non-profit entities that until today have been doing so, ventured in the Governing Council to put them out to tender in such a way that those that AFA was providing have already been awarded, and for those that ADISLAN has been providing, its imminent tender has been announced on several occasions.”
Drafting of the main planning instruments pending approval
Also among its proposed resolutions, CC-PNC advocates that the Cabildo resume in the remainder of the mandate the drafting of the main planning instruments pending approval as a strategic objective of the first order, and consequently entrust, either to a public company or through public tender, the approval and adaptation of a new Island Planning Plan, as well as the promotion of the processing and approval of both the Special Plan of La Geria and the PRUG of the Chinijo Archipelago entrusted to GESPLAN.
The nationalists propose that the Arrecife Capital of the Biosphere Reserve project be resumed from the Cabildo's own Biosphere Reserve area together with the Arrecife City Council, both from the urban and social spheres.
The nationalist formation recalls that the objective of this project is to align the planning and design of the capital of the Island with the principles subscribed in the declaration of Lanzarote as a Biosphere Reserve (Unesco, 1993), and for this it proposes to think about the future of Arrecife by intervening in three ecologies: pluvial (water), sustainable mobility of residents and visitors (human) and citizen participation (governance).
The first action is committed to solving the problem of flooding with green infrastructures that filter and store rainwater at its source, thus replicating its natural cycle. The second intervention is committed to an integral and equitable mobility model that prioritizes light and public modes, and the third action would be the implementation of an urban governance model that recovers the commitments assumed in the declaration as a Biosphere Reserve and mobilizes the participation of the entire society of Lanzarote and its capital, Arrecife.
Thus, while working on the urban design of the city, a network of Leisure Centers and Services was also designed and promoted to promote and develop coexistence and a sense of belonging, to promote intergenerational solidarity and to deploy cultural creation and learning processes through the development of integrated programs of leisure and free time activities and the implementation of programs for accessibility and accompaniment of minors and families in social difficulty in existing resources and activities of free time, culture, sports and environment.
This network of Leisure Centers and Services is planned for the entire island, but in Arrecife, the locations that are proposed are: Las Salinas, Argana Baja - San Francisco Javier, Argana Alta (RED, warehouse owned by the Cabildo on the S.B. road), La Vega, Titerroy, Valterra - Los Alonso, Altavista – Tenorio and Maneje.
In the third of its proposed resolutions, CC-PNC emphasizes that in terms of agricultural irrigation "the island suffers from a true strategic plan that responds to the need and opportunity for Lanzarote to have abundant and quality irrigation water, foreseeing why not with desalination plants for exclusive irrigation use."
Therefore, they advocate that the Cabildo, through the Consortium and with the Concourse of the Island Water Council, create a working commission from which to entrust the preparation of a strategic plan for agricultural irrigation in the short, medium and long term, which determines the investments to be made and addresses the search for external and own financing so that the island has once and for all a real opportunity for the development of agriculture.
On the other hand, the nationalists also highlight the need and responsibility to continue advancing to reduce our carbon footprint. “In the framework of the climate emergency in which we have been for decades, it is necessary to continue with the path of changing the energy model undertaken with determination for a decade by the Island Council of Lanzarote,” says San Ginés.
Strategic Plan for Energy Communities 2022-2030
Thus, they are committed to developing a Strategic Plan for Energy Communities 2022-2030 with the aim of developing at least one energy community in each of the 7 municipalities and on the island of La Graciosa where local administrations, neighbors and local SMEs are involved.
The sixth of the proposals put forward focuses on the plenary session of the Cabildo of Lanzarote promoting either the approval of a collaboration agreement with the Teguise City Council for the integral revitalization of the “Agrotechnological Complex” for its commissioning for the purposes for which it was originally conceived, or the acquisition of said complex for the same purpose.
“More than three decades have passed since its construction and it is not being used for those purposes for which it was originally conceived, and from Coalición Canaria we believe that this is basically because the original idea, which was not bad in itself, exceeded the capacity and competence of a local administration such as a city council,” explains the spokesperson for CC-PNC.
"Even more important is that the Cabildo urge the Government of the Canary Islands to urgently fulfill its commitment to the completion of the purification and sanitation works of La Graciosa," they add.
The nationalists recall that in 2016, "the Government of the Canary Islands allocated 5 million euros to improve the infrastructures in wastewater management on the island of La Graciosa, a demand from the Teguise City Council and the Citizen Council of La Graciosa, urgent and necessary so that there is no need to regret a serious problem in environmental matters. However, time continues to pass and the sanitation works of La Graciosa continue without being carried out."
Finally, the nationalists insist on the need for the Cabildo to lead, together with the San Bartolomé City Council, the demand to the Government of the Canary Islands for any of the alternatives for burying the LZ-2 to be executed without these being discarded for purely economic reasons, as well as the convening of a meeting with the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, the San Bartolomé City Council and the Cabildo of Lanzarote in order to determine the suitability of the different alternatives.
“There is no need to create new roads, to cross an area established as jable for the creation of new infrastructures,” asserts San Ginés.
