The municipal theater of Tinajo hosted this week the signing that seals the twinning between the municipalities of Betancuria (Fuerteventura) and Tinajo. According to the Lanzarote City Council, "the objective of the meeting was to make their union public, in order to share and accentuate the municipal activities between both islands according to future social, cultural, economic, sports and tourism relations, to contribute to the construction of the Canary Islands as an Autonomous, National and European Community".
In addition, the Council emphasizes that "both municipalities share characteristics and singularities that unite them, highlighting that both host and celebrate in their municipalities the festivity of the Insular Patron Saints, both have a prominent activity and impulse in the primary sector and both enjoy natural landscapes that favor tourism and public interest".
The mayors of Betancuria and Tinajo were present at the event, and with their signature they left "faithful commitment to support each other in all areas that are possible and necessary, as they did in their day with the Gran Canarian municipality of Teror". This was stated by the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, who wanted to emphasize the need to "strengthen and offer maximum solidarity with Betancuria, a municipality that due to its size will be directly harmed by the future law of local institutions".
Memories of the past
For his part, the highest representative of the municipality of Betancuria thanked the invitation and the initiative of the City Council of Tinajo to carry out this act, which takes him "to times of the past", when "the conejeros visited the island of Fuerteventura to celebrate the Virgen de la Peña", patron saint of the island and that Betancuria hosts and celebrates every year.
The mayor added that "Betancuria is the smallest municipality in the Autonomous Community, which will soon be directly affected by the new law on institutions, being very badly damaged". Therefore, he stressed that they will need "a lot of support from all the municipalities of Majorera and our sister islands".
For his part, the deputy mayor of Tinajo, Antonio Morales, promoter of this initiative and of the past initiative of twinning with the municipality of Teror, stressed that "this year, in the Fiesta de Los Dolores, the three twinned municipalities -Teror, Betancuria and Tinajo- will be represented in the stand of Tinajo, each with its singularities, for the knowledge and promotion of visitors to the Craft Fair".