The Popular Party has launched a campaign to collect signatures, which already has 300 supporters, to try to find a solution and "unblock" the rehabilitation of homes in Valterra and Titerroy. The initiative will be addressed to the Ombudsman so that this body urges the Government of the Canary Islands to execute or "say where are the two million euros that the State allocated to these projects".
The island president of the Popular Party, Ástrid Pérez, has insisted on the "negligence" and "inaction" that has existed on the part of the Government of the Canary Islands regarding the "difficult problem that affects around 166 families who have been waiting for years and years for a solution". The PP has recalled that the rehabilitation of these homes was included in the 2009-2012 State Plan.
After the corresponding signing of agreements, the State Government transferred to the Canary Islands 1,284,000 euros of the 5,137,000 that are contemplated in total for the Valterra neighborhood, and 875,000 euros of the 3.5 million euros for Titerroy, according to the PP. "We are therefore talking about the fact that the Government of the Canary Islands received in its coffers just over 2.1 million euros of which we know absolutely nothing," Pérez denounced.
"As of today, the only thing that is clear is that this money has not reached those who had to reach it, the residents, and for what they had to come, the rehabilitation of their homes," he insisted. In addition, he regretted that, despite the "numerous initiatives" that have been presented in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, "neither the president, Paulino Rivero, nor the councilor responsible for Housing, Inés Rojas, have been able to justify that money and explain what they have spent it on."
"Since they are unable to provide that information, all that remains is to request the intervention of the Ombudsman to urge the regional Executive to execute or justify the two million euros," Pérez said in a statement. The PP believes that this problem cannot be "delayed any longer" and considers that the "only way to solve it" is by "joining efforts". "Let the affected parties themselves and the citizens of Lanzarote be the ones who, with their signatures and our support, ask for protection and demand the execution of these two projects," demanded the island president of the PP.
