Councilor Carlos Espino announced that he will demand legal responsibilities from the Yaiza City Council if irregularities are detected

Reyes insists that he had already reported on all licenses and considers himself a victim of an "obsessive persecution"

The Yaiza City Council delivered on April 6 the details of all the construction licenses it granted since 2000, [as reported this Monday by the Councilor for Territorial Policy, Carlos Espino,->6363] ...

April 19 2006 (16:40 WEST)
Reyes insists that he had already reported all the licenses and considers himself a victim of obsessive persecution
Reyes insists that he had already reported all the licenses and considers himself a victim of obsessive persecution

The Yaiza City Council delivered on April 6 the details of all the construction licenses it granted since 2000, [as reported this Monday by the Councilor for Territorial Policy, Carlos Espino,->6363] but the southern mayor, José Francisco Reyes, has not changed one iota his opinion or his speech. The mayor insisted this Tuesday that the City Council had already informed the Cabildo of all the licenses it granted, and again considered himself a victim of an "obsessive persecution" by Espino.

"Councilor Carlos Espino seems to have nothing else to do and dedicates all his time to Yaiza. When he doesn't deliver all the licenses, because he doesn't deliver them, and when he delivers them, because he delivers them. I know that the Cabildo has all the documentation, had a technician for a week in the technical office and I didn't even speak to him, because it was the City Council technicians who gave him all the information. I would like to know if all the other City Councils delivered all the licenses. Espino gets involved with me as a political leader but it must be taken into account that the documentation is kept in all the City Councils by the secretary, and his duty is to strictly comply with the law", Reyes said this Tuesday in a press conference.

"It's too much obsession that this man has (for Carlos Espino), because more has been built on the island than in Yaiza in any other municipality", added the mayor. In turn, when asked if, as he claims, the southern City Council had already reported all the licenses it has granted in the last six years, why has he agreed to the Cabildo's demand to present the detailed report that was received on April 6, Reyes responded: "I am not agreeing to anything. I am not the one who sends the licenses. The secretary of the City Council is preparing them and when he has a package he sends them and has been sending them, and now he has believed it so and did it", he said in reference to the documentation whose delivery was reported this Monday by Carlos Espino.

"We have nothing to hide", added the mayor, while pointing out that "in Arrecife construction has not stopped at any time, and any building in Arrecife carries more population than any town in Yaiza, but it seems that there has been no construction there and that it has only been built in Playa Blanca".

José Francisco Reyes counterattacked in turn assuring that in the Department of Territorial Policy of the Cabildo "the course has been lost completely, because the PIOT of '91 is not adapted to the laws of the territory, it is not adapted to the guidelines of the Government of the Canary Islands, and that leads to the delay of the general plans so necessary for the City Councils".

Regarding Espino's statements that Yaiza's delays in delivering the licenses it has granted caused delays in the preparation of the Special Territorial Plan, Reyes said that "he has no information because he has not requested it, because he says he is going to present the Territorial Plan but most of the mayors do not know it".

Legal responsibilities

For his part, Councilor Carlos Espino announced that although the southern City Council has already delivered the documentation on the licenses it has granted, the Cabildo will go to court if some of them were wrongly granted.

In statements to the program "Buenos días, Lanzarote", of Radio Lanzarote, Espino said that "although it is not the path we would like to have to take, I feel obliged to say that if we detect irregularities in some of the licenses granted by Yaiza, we will demand responsibilities" through legal channels.

In turn, the councilor complained again about the disruptions caused to the Cabildo by the delays on the part of the Yaiza City Council to deliver the licenses and the fact that now they must review the 406 that were reported in just two months, which is the legal term to appeal them if that is clear from the respective technical reports that are being prepared.

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