Haría is experiencing “a political tension more than evident before the change of Mayor, which was initially planned for this month of June”. That is what they say from the Popular Party, which fears that the Canarian Coalition and the Municipal Platform “will get entangled again in political squabbles in the final stretch of the mandate”.
It should be remembered that after the motion of censure presented by both formations against the PSOE, they agreed to share the baton of command in the remainder of the legislature, initially falling to CC. However, as the date of the change approached, the Coalition has insisted that they must decide “by consensus” between both formations who will be their substitute.
This Thursday, the mayor Chaxiraxi Niz has indicated on Radio Lanzarote that "there is already an agreement" and it will be in July when the plenary session will be held to appoint the new mayor. In principle, the position should fall to the head of the PMH list, José Torres Stinga, who founded that party after his bitter departure from CC. However, the option that the number two, Evelia García, is the one who finally becomes mayor is gaining more and more strength, since she would be the consensus candidate.
“This mandate will be more remembered for the political tensions than for new projects or improvements made”, lamented the president of the PP in Haría, David Álvarez, who questions that “the experiments and political carambolas in which the three parties with plenary representation embarked from the beginning of the mandate have marked the future of the municipality, which, if what was agreed is fulfilled, will go down in history for having had three mayors in four years”.
"A lost mandate"
“When a municipality of just 5,365 inhabitants, which has been dragging the consequences of previous bad governments, the parties get involved in fights over who occupies the chair, it is clear that they forget that the first objective is the good of the neighbors and that is what is happening in Haria”, Álvarez criticizes.
“At the moment, it is being a lost mandate because we have not seen anything of what was promised, as is the case of the revision of the General Plan of Ordering to allow young people to access their first home, which is one of the great problems that our municipality has”, he adds.
The populars affirm that “this was precisely one of the issues that was most insisted on in the inauguration ceremonies”, but of which “then we have not known anything else, and here there is no excuse for the pandemic because it is a merely technical work”.
The PP considers that the only thing that the government of CC and PMH has done has been “to manage the routine”, but “without even being aware of the most basic services in terms of cleaning or maintenance of parks and garden areas”. “We always depend on employment plans for everything”, they denounce.
