All seven town councils in Lanzarote have passed in transparency, with an average that has increased substantially, going from a pass to a high pass: from an average grade of 5.40 in 2018 to 8.26 in 2019, according to the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands.
The increase is due to the fact that in the evaluation of the 2019 financial year, the portals of the seven municipalities on the island exceed a notable grade. Arrecife and Teguise are at the top of the list with a score of 10 compared to 5.4 and 7.09 respectively in 2018.
For their part, Yaiza, Tías and Tinajo, which in 2018 were the only ones that failed in 2018 without exceeding four points, have now obtained a score of 7.78, 7.59 and 7.16 respectively. In the case of San Bartolomé, it has gone from 7.82 to 8.1, while Haría has risen to 7.58 compared to 5.64 in 2018.
A total of 25 of the 88 town councils in the Canary Islands still fail
At regional level, the Transparency Commissioner points out that although the municipal transparency portals in the Canary Islands "have advanced a lot in four years", still 25 of the 88 town councils do not reach 5 points.
If we take as a reference the number of portals of the 88 town councils that did not exceed the minimum score of 5 out of 10, 73 did not reach five points in 2016, 46 in 2017, 39 in 2018 and 25 in 2019. In other words, the number of those who did not reach a "sufficient" grade was reduced in four years to less than a third.
In 2016, 83% of the town councils failed and, three years later, that percentage was reduced to 28%; "to a large extent thanks to the continuous self-assessment through the T-Canaria application", according to the Transparency Commissioner.
"The self-assessment and accountability on transparency of the town councils through the T-Canaria telematic application has greatly influenced the improvement seen in recent years. Where there is no evaluation, the informative content of the portals is not updated or improved to the same extent", says the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, Daniel Cerdán.
The average scores of the 88 town councils and their 103 dependent municipal organisations went from 3.03 points in 2016 to 5.21 in 2017, 5.17 in 2018 and 5.82 in 2019. In general, their dependent entities (most of them very small) hinder the overall result of the municipal sector, although there are some cases in which the opposite occurs.
