The Plenary of Tías, governed by the PP, has also approved the institutional motion against prospecting, although with the abstention of the popular group and the favorable vote of its government partner, San Borondón. In this municipality, the PP councilors have also not followed the official line of the party to vote against that motion, although they have not supported it either and have chosen to abstain.
The mayor, Pancho Hernández, has been the only one of his party who has spoken during the Plenary and wanted to make it clear that he voted "with the PP group, but is totally against prospecting." It should be remembered that Hernández was the first public official of the Lanzarote PP to speak out against prospecting, although in the last week several more have joined him.
During the Plenary, and before the motion was put to a vote, the mayor expressed himself "in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the group" to which he belongs to ask the secretary to record in the minutes his opposition to oil surveys. Thus, he has hinted that his intention was to vote in favor of the motion, but finally they have decided to issue a unanimous vote from the ranks of the PP. In this way, there have also been no votes from the PP against the motion, despite the fact that some councilors from Tías did remain in the official line of the party in defense of prospecting.
"I think citizens are not being listened to and they should be listened to," the mayor questioned during his short speech in the Plenary. The rest of the PP councilors have not justified their vote and have preferred not to speak during the plenary session.
CC, PSOE and San Borondón support the motion
Those who have expressed their opinion on this motion have been CC, PSOE and San Borondón, parties that presented this initiative to the Plenary and have supported it. The spokesman for CC, Mame Fernández, considers that the Government of Spain "continues to ignore" the citizens of the Canary Islands and their institutions and has asked the PP to leave the abstention and make a "pineapple" to defend the tourist municipality, something that has finally not achieved.
Fernández, who has criticized the Minister of Energy, Industry and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, has pointed out that CC will do "everything in its power" to stop prospecting, always by "peaceful means, although some want to start a war conflict, a war between the Canary Islands and Spain".
For his part, Tomás Silvera, from the PSOE, has insisted that the procedure to authorize oil prospecting has been carried out "without the consensus and without the dialogue" with the people of the Canary Islands. "I think the risks are incalculable," insisted the socialist, who has also asked the PP councilors to reflect on whether "they want to go on an electoral list or to the beach" in the conditions in which they can go now, without oil prospecting.
Finally, Jerónimo Robayna, councilor of San Borondón and deputy mayor, has also positioned himself against the surveys. "If they are not done, the risk is none," he summarized, while betting on renewable energies as an alternative to oil and has asked the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo to promote this type of energy.