UPLG blames the City Council's "abandonment and neglect" for the fall of palm trees in Costa Teguise

Unidos por Lanzarote y La Graciosa denounces that "the neglect of gardening is already becoming a risk for the neighbors"

March 1 2022 (08:45 WET)
Fallen Palm Tree in Costa Teguise
Fallen Palm Tree in Costa Teguise

Unidos Por Lanzarote y La Graciosa attributes the fall of palm trees in Costa Teguise to the "abandonment and neglect" of the City Council. "Since Oswaldo Betancort took over the mayor's office of the Teguise City Council eleven years ago, the systematic neglect of the municipality's gardens and green areas has begun to wreak havoc on public roads," criticizes Laureano Álvarez.

The political formation points out that they have received numerous neighborhood complaints about palm trees that have fallen on top of private cars parked on public roads. "And it is not the first time, they are already habitual suspects in this of neglect and indifference to the public res," they add.

UPLG recalls the fall of a tree in the seaside town or the fire of bushes near residential houses. "Oswaldo has lived off the inheritance of a municipality that is now crumbling due to the incompetence and lack of interest of a mayor who swears everything to the tie for the photo, to trips to the Parliament of the Canary Islands and to the legalization of hotel speculation," they add.

"If Oswaldo dedicated more time to his municipality and to fixing the problems of the citizens and less to traveling to believe he is important in the Canary Islands, today we would not have these serious
events," says Laureano Álvarez, president of Unidos por Lanzarote.

Finally, they maintain that "the degradation of the municipality is already a reality and the inability to approve a contract that responds to the needs of the same (the tender for the gardens of Tahíche and Costa Teguise has been canceled) will only worsen the situation." "But Oswaldo Betancort will be more concerned about traveling to pretend in the Parliament of the Canary Islands," Álvarez concludes.

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