The Socialist spokesperson in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, has expressed this Tuesday the concern of her group regarding the granting of the tourist license to the Papagayo Arena hotel and considers that said granting "could constitute a legal fraud."
González has rejected the statements of Oswaldo Betancort, trying to justify the granting of the aforementioned license, relying on a judicial ruling that "at no time urged the Cabildo to resolve the Papagayo Arena file, and much less, in a way that favors the property."
"The ruling reproached the Cabildo for the delay in resolving the file, without considering, because it was not the object of the procedure, that the Yaiza City Council had not provided the required documentation on several occasions by the tourist planning area," explained the councilor.
"Oswaldo Betancort is lying," González pointed out, "that reproach, completely unfair, since the Cabildo was not responsible for the blockage, remained a mere comment in the argumentation of the ruling and in its operative part the Court did not impose any obligation on the Cabildo to resolve the file, nor did it predetermine that the license should be granted."
In the opinion of the councilor, "what is truly serious" is that the tourist authorization has been granted "knowing the serious breaches in which the building incurs, relying on the fact that these irregularities must be assessed by other administrations, when it is the Cabildo itself that has denounced them in the Courts, obtaining the annulment of all licenses granted previously."
"An administration cannot go against its own acts and Oswaldo Betancort has just granted a tourist authorization against what the Cabildo has been arguing before the Courts," explained the councilor, recalling that during Loli Corujo's term of office "the procedures for executing the ruling that the previous government of San Ginés left to sleep in the drawers were reactivated."
"Oswaldo Betancort knows it perfectly well, because it was the action of Corujo's government that forced him to start the demolition proceedings, against his will. Now he tries to mislead by trying to rely on what a ruling does not say," he concluded.