The Lanzarote Independents Party has demanded the calling of the ordinary plenary session in the Cabildo, which should have been held last October and which, "as of today, it is unknown when it will take place." In addition, the PIL criticizes that the president, Pedro San Ginés, is avoiding holding that ordinary session "for fear of confirming what is evident: the institutional crisis that he himself has generated in the Cabildo."
What the president of the Cabildo has called is an extraordinary plenary session for next Monday, which will only include the granting of economic subsidies for educational emergency and a subsidy to the Arrecife City Council for urban public transport.
In the opinion of the PIL, that extraordinary plenary session "is a clumsy and awkward attempt to show an apparent normal functioning of the institution, when the truth is that since the last plenary session held - two months ago - no issue of interest to this island is being discussed and a complicit silence is being shown with the 2014 budget project of the Government of the Canary Islands."
Therefore, the party accuses San Ginés of "paralyzing the normal functioning of the institution due to his fears and anxieties of being in the minority", after the attitude adopted by the CC councilors Sergio Machín and Mónica Álvarez.
A plenary session without options for the opposition
Regarding the extraordinary session to be held on Monday, the islanders emphasize that the president is aware that this plenary session "does not allow any member of the opposition to make any improvement contribution to what is proposed in it. That is, the proposals, even poorly elaborated, that the government itself indicates in the points to be discussed must simply be voted on, but without the possibility of exercising any constructive and democratic work." And it is that, unlike what happens in an ordinary plenary session, in an extraordinary session no motion from the opposition can be debated.
"Is this the search for consensus that Mr. San Ginés announces so much? Convening plenary sessions in which the PIL cannot contribute or improve in any way the proposals that the government sends? Is this how he plans to govern the next two years?", the party asks.
Therefore, from the PIL Group in the Cabildo they have publicly demanded the holding of an Ordinary Plenary Session, "where all political forces can debate, contribute, build and decide what is best and necessary for our island." "Let's do it all together, as was recently carried out when our formation obtained total and absolute support for the four proposals it made in the last Island Debate", they point out in reference to the last session held in the Cabildo, on the Debate on the State of the Island.
In addition, the PIL demands that they leave "internal party crises aside" and that they do not transfer them "to the most important Institution of Lanzarote." "Doing things well, talking and agreeing with all the formations on the decisions to be made, since that is what distinguishes a good ruler from someone who is only afraid of losing his seat", he concludes.
