The spokesperson for Unidos por Yaiza (UPY), Daniel Medina, wanted to respond to the “surprising and misleading” press release from the Cabildo of Lanzarote, released by the president Oswaldo Betancort and the territorial policy councilor, Jesús Machín Tavío, regarding the supposed progress in the Special Plan of La Geria. For Medina, the communication is “surprising” since this document has not been agreed upon nor developed with the city councils that have territory compromised in said protected landscape, and also “misleading” since no invitation has been extended to the affected institutions to participate in preparatory meetings to agree on a diagnosis and a document that is clearly simply an initial draft.
“It is already becoming a general trend that this Cabildo of lights and fireworks first announces certain measures to the media without agreeing on them with those who will later have to participate and intervene in the elaboration process, such as the city councils, showing their most blatant egocentrism”.
Therefore, UPY demands that the president and the councilor “take this seriously and have the due institutional loyalty so that this document comes out smoothly and agreed upon from the beginning, because great appearances and presentations are not going to solve the underlying problem that this space is experiencing, specifically La Geria, but which, in a generalized way, the island of Lanzarote also suffers from due to the lack of a new Island Plan for Territorial Organization”, adds the spokesperson for the municipal party. “In Yaiza, we already know how CC spends its time spreading inaccuracies and lies”.
From UPY, they affirm that they do not share in any way the ways of either the councilor or the president of presenting a document of transcendental importance for a space as important as La Geria to public opinion before the affected parties themselves. Daniel Medina wanted to make it clear that “Yaiza will not be a problem to approve a document that gives legal certainty to this valuable landscape, worked by man, which adds added value to a space that is spectacular in itself”, but he reproaches the ways in which the First Island Corporation is acting. “It would be convenient to know if the Popular Party, the government partner of the Canarian Coalition in the Cabildo, shares the president's procedure”, adds the UPY spokesperson.
