The spokesperson for the Renovating Movement of Tinajo (MRT), Antonio Morales, has demanded the mayor, Jesús Machín, and his government group to provide solutions to the "mistreatment" of the primary sector of the municipality. In this line, he has denounced that for "more than two weeks" the farmers of "various points" of Tinajo do not receive water for their crops.
“There are areas of Tinajo to which Canal Gestión sends water to farmers only on Mondays, but now many have gone more than two weeks without receiving it,” Morales denounces. In this sense, from MRT they assure that while "the primary sector is agonizing”, “the mayor and the municipal government group dedicate themselves to profiling and looking the other way.”
“It is a mockery that the government group fills their mouths saying that they always support the primary sector when the reality is quite different", said the spokesperson for the Renovating Movement of Tinajo. "They have turned their backs and have not defended in the competent bodies, such as the Water Consortium of Lanzarote, a good supply service for the sector”, he pointed out in a press release.
“Neither the mayor nor his municipal government fulfill their obligations and do not even comply with the plenary agreements that they themselves propose or in which they vote in favor”, he insisted. At this point, he alluded to the agreement carried out by the City Council, at the request of MRT, in which they agreed to demand the Insular Water Consortium of Lanzarote to demand Canal Gestión "a decent water supply service”.
In this sense, the political formation accuses Jesús Machín and his government group of not doing "anything" of what was agreed, "they have not even attended the meetings of the Water Consortium itself, of which the Cabildo and the seven town councils are part", lamented the candidate for mayor in the elections of May 28.
The Renovating Movement has insisted that it has been "more than a year and a half", demanding Jesús Machín to appear before the plenary session to explain what steps he has taken so far before the Water Consortium and Canal Gestión. Meanwhile, he has pointed out that the current mayor "still does not accept appearance, because he knows perfectly well that he has done nothing and that he cannot provide any type of evidence or record that makes up his passivity”.
Loss of the bonus
In addition, Antonio Morales warns that the City Council of Tinajo "has not said anything in these four years", after the Cabildo of Lanzarote eliminated the bonus in prices for the supply of agricultural water, which was 50 cents per ton in the case of professionals and 80 cents in the case of non-professionals.
“Instead of that bonus, the formula of nominated subsidy has been introduced, with which farmers have been without receiving the bonus for a year and a half and, in addition, they have had to advance the payment of those invoices without discount to, in the best of cases, continue waiting as until now for something of that deposit to be returned to them”, he laments.
“They are harming the primary sector and they are not fulfilling the functions for which they were elected as representatives of the residents of Tinajo by not defending the interest of the citizens of the municipality and putting the interest of Canal Gestión first”, says the spokesperson for the Renovating Movement.
In this sense, Morales recalls that the position of his political formation "has always been proactive". Thus, he highlights that “we have always put on the table different alternatives with the water problems and even in his day we collected some 800 signatures from residents of the municipality asking the City Council to act accordingly”.
The Renovating Movement of Tinajo presented during the legislature "various proposals and motions, some of them approved unanimously". According to the note issued by the party, "in all of them" they asked the City Council to address the Water Consortium and the Cabildo of Lanzarote so that Canal Gestión "improved the service".
In this sense, the political formation regrets that the municipal government "has not done anything" in four years. “It is regrettable that in the 21st century the residents of Tinajo have to continue suffering this type of situation and the worst thing is that the mayor and his government group continue without giving a solution or taking seriously a matter of such relevance”, Morales adds.