The Socialist Party has proposed amending the institutional declaration in defense of the Port Authority of Lanzarote, which will go to the Extraordinary Plenary Session next Monday. They propose, among other things, that the political forces "promote a broad process of consultation, in which social, economic and political agents intervene" to "define the port model that suits" Lanzarote. In addition, they oppose bunkering, the ship-to-ship refueling technique, for being "high risk".
The PSOE also proposes that the declaration incorporate the demand for "guarantees" with respect to the maintenance of the investments planned for the coming years, and those that are "necessary to guarantee the competitiveness" of the port. Regarding bunkering, the socialists are against it being included among the objectives, as it is an activity "of high risk", which, they point out, "clashes head-on with what was expressed by the island's society in defense of its waters during the conflict with the Repsol authorizations".
The socialist spokesperson in the Cabildo and island organization secretary, José Juan Cruz, has declared that "from the first moment, the Island Directorate and the Group favorably contemplated the declaration proposal, but we believed that it was limping in two fundamental aspects: the need for a public and shared debate on the port model and the absence of guarantees to be able to finance the development of the port".
Cruz pointed out that "it is not about seeing who shouts the loudest in defense of their own Port Authority, but about moving forward with thoughtful and future agreements." "We have to think things through better, it seems absurd to us that the Cabildo defends an activity as polluting and dangerous as bunkering, it would mean giving Soria the reason retroactively," he adds.
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