El Charco de los Clicos is mortally wounded. Sick for more than a decade, it is thinning before our eyes without public and organic representatives of the different political forces having acted with the decision, the ...
El Charco de los Clicos is mortally wounded. Sick for more than a decade, it is thinning before our eyes without public and organic representatives of the different political forces having acted with the decision, the courage or the necessary will to avoid it.
At the point we have reached, it is imperative to recognize the inefficiency, the partisan policies, the inter-administrative deafness and, probably, a certain lack of concern for environmental problems.
And ask for forgiveness. The damage inflicted on a unique natural and landscape space in the world, as a consequence of years of political inaction, is symptomatic of the fact that things are being done wrong. We must sing the mea culpa and try to rectify.
The Government of Spain, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Yaiza City Council, have, we have, part of the blame. The directions of PSOE, PP, CC, PNL and PIL have, we have, our share of responsibility.
The citizens who watch in astonishment as a foreseeable, announced problem has ended up materializing, placing us at the forefront of incapacity, have no part in it.
The crisis today makes investments difficult, any investment. But we have a recent past of economic boom and buoyant budgets that were not sensitive to the deterioration of the Charco de los Clicos. Not even when Pedro Almodóvar portrayed for eternity the magic of its greens, the power of its lava rocks and its atmosphere of lunar serenity.
I have enough of the inevitable excuses and the "what about you" that will come, the transfer of responsibilities with which they have played to distract so far. And I have enough because I see social outrage around me and I recognize myself incapable of giving a satisfactory answer, when I know that what they are demanding from me are not explanations but solutions.
I demand an exercise of collective responsibility. I ask my colleagues in the Government of the Canary Islands and in the Cabildo, our partners in both institutions, the mayor of Yaiza, the senator for Lanzarote and the conejero deputy to sit down and find a solution to the environmental attack that we have perpetrated.
Without excuses, without reproaches, only with the conviction that Lanzarote does not deserve this and that only political will depends on saving what remains of the lagoon.
And in the meantime, again, sorry.
María Dolores Corujo
General Secretary PSOE Lanzarote