Lorenzo Lemaur, substitute spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Arrecife City Council wants to know what the reasons were why the mayor Enrique Pérez Parrilla and the Councilor of Culture, Miguel Ángel Ferrer "did not carry out the necessary procedures" for the institution to transfer to the Government of the Canary Islands the proposals to participate in the "Canary Islands Awards 2008" in the categories of Fine Arts and Interpretation, Research and Innovation, and Historical Heritage.
That is the question he will ask them in the next Plenary session of the corporation. But before, he issues the assessment of his party regarding what they understand as something "regrettable", accusing the Councilor of Culture of "incompetence" and that "he does not have the capacity" to attend to the areas under his responsibility. He also extends the responsibility for "such omission," as they call it, to the mayor of Arrecife, which for the group of Lorenzo Lemaur, "confirms the apathy and paralysis that the Arrecife City Council has been registering since Enrique Pérez Parrilla assumed the mayoralty," he concludes.
According to the PP, the Councilor of Culture "has not complied with the mandate that was given to him and the deadline has already expired" to present the possible candidacies to the Canarian Executive. According to Lemaur, in the informative Commission of Culture, Historical Archive, Citizen Participation, and Festivities of November 21, they unanimously decided to leave the call for the awards on the table because "the matter came to the commission without any proposals or study having been carried out by the Councilor," the popular spokesperson points out.
The PP continues saying, the members of the commission decided that Miguel Ángel Ferrer should carry out the study and the proposals of possible candidacies so that he would bring them back to the commission before December 31st, a fact that, according to the PP's writing, never happened and that has led to the deadline having ended today.
