The Cabildo of Lanzarote continues to insist that the Prosecutor's Office of Las Palmas "has rejected" the claims of the Haría City Council, despite the fact that the mayor, José Torres Stinga, clarified that it had simply issued a report for this case to be resolved in the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. The Cabildo has sent a press release in which it has reiterated "the invitation" to the mayor of Haría "to resume institutional dialogue."
The first island institution has "rejoiced" that the Prosecutor's Office "has sided with the Corporation in this last extreme" and that "it shares that the City Council effectively erred, without the Contentious-Administrative Court Number 5 of Las Palmas having yet ruled on the matter, nor, obviously, has it done so on the rest of the grounds for inadmissibility put forward by the Cabildo, such as the lack of eviction power of the Haría City Council."
The Cabildo wanted to issue this press release, in response to the note made public by Haría, in which "the mayor accused the Cabildo of bad faith, in relation to the eviction lawsuit of the Cueva de los Verdes", according to the first institution. In response to the statements of José Torres Stinga, the Cabildo has assured that "it has not intended any conflict over the ownership" of the Cueva de los Verdes, "nor has it undertaken any legal action claiming the exclusive ownership of any of the Tourist Centers as the mayor of Haría has done."
"This would deprive the entire island society of what is the heritage of all the people of Lanzarote, including the residents of the northern municipality," the Cabildo has pointed out, which has insisted that "it has limited itself to responding to judicial requirements, effectively requesting the inadmissibility of the claims of the mayor of Haría."
The first institution adduces for this "various reasons", such as considering that the City Council "was making a clear mistake by addressing judicial instances not competent for the case, as it is not up to the Contentious-Administrative Court to resolve it, but to the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands."
"Furious attack by the mayor"
From the Cabildo they have indicated that "they are not going to understand or share the furious attack by the mayor of Haría" and have insisted again that "the prosecutor has rejected the admission to processing of the lawsuit in the aforementioned court for being incompetent to do so, as requested by the legal services of the Corporation."
"The issue should never have gravitated on who owns any of the Tourist Centers and a good example of this is that Haría benefits from the canon of the Mirador del Río, and we intend for it to continue to be so, despite not having any patrimonial right over it, nor over the Tourist Center itself, nor over the land on which it is located," the Cabildo has stated.
"The dialogue that should never have been abandoned"
The government group, composed of CC and PSOE, has invited the mayor to resume the "path of institutional dialogue" that, according to what has been indicated, "should never have been abandoned." In addition, it asks him to "desist from resolving this issue in a judicial process, which he would be forced to restart if the Contentious-Administrative Court Number 5 of Las Palmas finally dismisses his claims."
If not, the Cabildo has warned that "it will use all the instruments at its disposal to prevent the mayor of Haría from subtracting the ownership of any of the tourist centers, breaking the management unit of a leading and historical network of centers that transcends the municipal scope."
Finally, it also wanted to guarantee "that the residents of Haría will continue to be the main beneficiaries of the income produced by the centers located in their municipal district, regardless of who owns them", although it has also recalled that "it is the obligation of the Corporation to redistribute the wealth generated on the island, benefiting all the municipalities of the island."
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