These days, after seeing certain attitudes of parties and their "renewed" organic positions, a doubt, not to say a few, assails me.
When those of us who have the possibility of participating in a political organization speak of the interest or political and temporal suitability of things, isn't it the same interest or suitability of our society and those of us who live in it?
Does anyone doubt the need for Lanzarote to have an island plan NOW that puts an end to legal uncertainties and enables investors (who will be the ones who can generate employment) to invest in our land with the guarantee that their money will not be lost in eternal legal disputes.
They deny us the Advance and the possibility as a people to get out of this crisis situation that is already longer than desired. Watch out!! and in case some are tempted to call me a speculator, friend of the brick and I don't know how many more things for betting on the future. We are talking about development, not disorderly growth; we are talking about our primary, industrial, technological or tourist sector knowing, with a preconceived image of the Island within the margins that allow its conservation, that we are and want to continue being world leaders in Tourism and development without damaging our raw material.
Aytorn Senna was Formula 1 world champion, the independence of Ukraine was voted on in a referendum or TERMINATOR 2 triumphed in cinemas when, in 1991, a Nicolás de Paiz from the UCD pushed forward the Island Plan that to this day (23 years later) we still have to apply. A document that would be in its time what this Island needed but that today, is obsolete and does not accommodate the advances that some politicians with their attitude deny our Island.
Do these leaders know that this PIOL from 1991 denies the possibility of solar gardens, or that it prevents the development of a marina for Costa Teguise, that it denies the solution to the "skeletons" of our tourist center par excellence, that it harms the residents of the scattered areas who cannot establish themselves as nuclei or that it prevents the construction of desalination plants for the primary sector in the necessary areas? Do they know?
The worst thing is that I think they do, that they do know but they don't care. They are willing to sacrifice the future of this Island and those of us who live on it to prevent their political adversary from winning a handful more votes from the citizens in May.
Sadness and disappointment are the words that best define what those of us who a few months ago looked with hope at the elections of new organic leaderships in Lanzarote think, who seemed to intend to move it forward and not put absurd obstacles to its development. Many of us believed that they had learned the lesson that the citizens wanted to give them at the polls in 2011 but IT WAS NOT SO, that renewal continues with the vices of the sad Insular political history, playing their cards and pushing forward initiatives that today are historical judicial examples of how NOT to do things in terms of sustainable growth and whose positions in the institutions are systematically remembered as the obstacle to the general plans, the sector regulations or anything they understand does not bear their signature at the end of the document or does not occur in the political calendar they consider acceptable.
Since in 2011 the residents of Teguise first and the Mayor later placed in me the confidence to coordinate and work on the urban and territorial development project for my municipality, I have had the opportunity to learn that the best model is, without a doubt, not that of the PP, that of the PSOE, that of the PIL or that of the Canarian Coalition, but the one that with the consensus of society and listening to the groups and citizens, in the public information periods, we decide for our Island and municipalities. Hopefully this that we put as primordial in Teguise (and not only the Canarian Coalition) will extend to the parties with representation in the Cabildo so that they give the citizens the possibility of participating in the PIOL document after its initial approval and with the suggestions and allegations that the Law establishes.
Echedey Eugenio, CC Communications Secretary