The Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture has become the house of problems for the Arrecife government group in the last week. It can no longer even be considered a marriage of convenience because neither one nor the other is convenient to be together because they are jeopardizing a city that is crying out for solutions to small problems and big problems.
What happened last Thursday has been the tip of the iceberg of a government pact that cannot continue managing the third capital of the Canary Islands for another minute. It seems that they are competing to see who puts more obstacles in the way of the other or who paralyzes more procedures so that the councilorships of one or the other do not advance.
Until five o'clock last Thursday, Rafael Juan, Eva de Anta and the Secretary of the City Council were there, the latter acting as if she were a mediator, trying to carry out the long-awaited inauguration of the Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture. But that was the best moment that the mayor of Arrecife had to take revenge for the misdeeds done so far by her government partner, Coalición Canaria, which in recent months, not to say years, have become an opposition within the Government, trying to make the citizens see that the disaster in municipal management is not their responsibility. Impossible task because the citizens know that they are accomplices, jointly responsible, co-authors of the disastrous management that is being carried out in our city.
Some talk about a "piece of paper" missing, others talked about a "big mess" but what is clear is that after 12 years they were not able to comply with the legal procedures to open the long-awaited Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture for the enjoyment of all.
The Popular Party, leader of the opposition and the first party to denounce the lack of necessary documentation to inaugurate the House of Culture, highlighted that this government group, with its Mayor at the head, wanted to open public facilities without having all the legal blessings for its operation.
The Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture has been closed for more than 12 years, more than enough time to have all the documentation in order and not have to resort to the old ways of doing politics, inaugurating public spaces without having all the documentation in order. But after the complaint of the Popular Party, the mayor Eva de Anta immediately remembered the conviction for prevarication of Enrique Pérez Parrilla after opening the Insular Theater without having the appropriate license for its operation. In the end, as it could not be otherwise, some and others were left with the suit ironed, composed and without a boyfriend, before the shame and embarrassment felt by the residents of Arrecife.
And taking advantage of the fact that the Pisuerga passes through Valladolid, there is an aspect that I do not want to overlook, which is that CC wants to get rid of the name of Agustín de la Hoz, we do not know with what intention. What is clear is that we cannot allow them to destroy the history of our city. What will be next? Putting Nino Díaz's name on the House of Culture? We can expect anything from this government group because we are seeing how partisan interests prevail over the general interests of the residents of Arrecife and Lanzarote.
That Arrecife is mired in an unprecedented paralysis is nothing new, since May suppliers have not been paid, and there are already 4 million in unpaid bills, nor have social emergency aid been paid, nor to sports entities, nor have the evicted from Titerroy been paid for the rent, nor to university students... this is an X-ray of the current situation in the City Council.
Sad and regrettable that a day that had to be historic was "tarnished" by the incompetence and disastrous management of PSOE-CC-PIL that have turned the House of Culture into the house of messes and shamelessness.
Jacobo Medina, Councilor and Deputy Spokesman for the PP in the Arrecife City Council
