Throughout this week, and despite the media noise that some have made with this matter due to unhealthy political intentions, all of the educational emergency grants from the Cabildo of Lanzarote will have reached their destination.
The truly important thing is that 135 students in special economic difficulties, will finally have received the aid that, after attempting to approve them up to twice in plenary session through extraordinary means, we were finally forced to do so through an exceptional channel whose competence the law contemplates attributed to the president, although they were decided in a collegial manner in the Governing Council.
Regarding the reports from the Secretariat to which some have given the dimension of "terrible constitutional crime committed by the president", indicate that indeed the reports point out the obligation to allow the voting of urgencies in plenary session, but also that if the substance of the motion presented as urgent by the PIL had been approved -supported by the PP -and according to said legal reports, the agreement would have been not only null and void by law and therefore unenforceable, but what is worse, the aid would have been lost definitively by opting for that plenary route, already out of time, as it would entail public exposure for 15 days and certain claims that would undoubtedly have taken us to 2014 as we warned.
But, how could what was already resolved be urgent? And, how was what was already distributed going to be distributed. Common sense was what we decided to apply and it doesn't seem very difficult to understand.
It is true that the regulation says what it says and that the urgency should have been voted on even when it no longer existed for reasons that are more than obvious. In that sense, it is undeniable that I made a mistake and I would say that it was even a political blunder to the extent that it would not have had any practical effect to have allowed that vote. Therefore, it does not hurt me to publicly and properly apologize for the former and regret the latter.
But asking for proper apologies does not change the fact that this administrative error is inconsequential to the extent that, had I not committed it and had both the urgency and the substance of the motion been approved, as we have said, the agreement would have been null and void by law according to the same report that obliges its vote, paradoxes of the norm and administrative law.
A motion from the opposition, on the other hand, unprecedented and inadmissible, which if executed would mean the supplanting of the technicians of the social welfare area in a practice never seen in this corporation, and I would swear that in no other, in which, handling extremely sensitive information, the spokesperson for the PIL group -always supported by the PP, among others - committed to raise their own political proposal for the distribution of resources without entrusting themselves to anyone and without any technical report to support it, as the government group did have and without any political interference according to the technicians of the area themselves. Unheard of.
This and other actions of sad remembrance in the present term, are a clear example of what is the low and virulent profile of the opposition that awaits us and will worsen in intensity as the electoral appointment approaches. An opposition, with honorable exceptions, enormously destructive and engrossed in harassment and demolition where anything goes at any price, before which the government group can only continue to solve problems without wasting more time than just and necessary, and trying for a desirable consensus that the opposition seems to understand must be systematically denied by its condition, whatever the matter at hand.
Finally, taking advantage of the occasion and the dates, allow me to wish all Canarians, native and adopted, a happy holiday season and to wish them something that I am more convinced than ever will be the case, and that is that 2014 will be much, much better than the year that is now ending.
