The general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote and first vice president of the Cabildo, Manuel Fajardo, announced that his representatives in the Government Group will promote the first island corporation to judicially appeal "many" of the 407 licenses that Yaiza has granted since 2000, and of which it did not report to the Cabildo until two months ago. "Of the more than 400 licenses not communicated at the time to the First Institution, "many" of them do not conform to the law, so it will have to be the Courts that protect us on this situation", commented Fajardo after a meeting of the Lanzarote socialist dome held last Thursday night.
For his part, the also socialist Carlos Espino, Minister of Territorial Policy, consulted by La Voz, did not want to make statements on the subject or specify the number of licenses that are intended to be appealed, although he maintained that due to the "urgencies" of that issue, "the report of the Technical Office on the agreement between the Teguise City Council and Algol has been left for later", which, according to Espino himself announced in the plenary session last Friday the 26th, was going to be known this week and was going to set the Cabildo's position on the matter.
The urgency regarding the Yaiza licenses is due to the fact that three months after being communicated to the Cabildo, the deadline for the Corporation to appeal to Justice would expire.
Sentence on the REF
In another order, the Socialist Party also announced that its political group will present a motion in the Cabildo so that the amount of money that the Government of the Canary Islands has to pay to the Cabildo is quantified and made effective as soon as possible, according to the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. This judicial decision condemns the Autonomous Government to pay 80 million euros to the Cabildo, for appropriating, based on "inflating" management expenses, derived from the collection of arbitrations and taxes of the Economic and Fiscal Regime of the Canary Islands.
Fajardo also announced that this motion will be extended to all the municipalities where his political formation has representation. "In Haría, which is the consistory where the PSOE does not have any type of representation, what will be done is to send a letter to the mayor so that he includes it within the letters to the mayor and presents it, if they deem it appropriate, as a motion," he said.
The insular socialist executive commission also decided to propose to the Insular Health Board that the name of the current General Hospital of Lanzarote be changed to Doctor Molina Hospital, due, according to the socialists, to the merits made by this Lanzarote citizen.
