A few days ago I published the first chapter of this series entitled "A inferiority complex of Dolores Corujo, and other pearls of Elena Solís", the former environment minister of the Cabildo of Lanzarote dismissed by the president of the Cabildo.
Back then, I reproduced her words: "what there really is is an inferiority complex of the president who is not capable of being there by herself..." and I added that if I had been the one to utter those statements I would already be singled out as the biggest misogynist, macho and thug in the history of the institution.
That was the first of several chapters in the form of an article, because the former minister - in addition to revealing the real reasons for her dismissal and that who really runs the Cabildo is Carlos Espino and not Dolores Corujo - told internal details of the functioning of the institution that are not to be missed, and the facts are confirming her story.
Although it is not up to me to explain the reasons for his resignation, the resignation of the island director of Environment and number two of the area, Yarci Acosta, probably have a lot to do with this second chapter on how the Cabildo works, according to Elena Solís, becoming an unexpected protagonist of it, and leaving the area as a wasteland, a faithful portrait of the management of this government.
I know that a large part of the corporation's staff knows and shares Solís' opinion about the sectarianism and authoritarianism with which Espino and Corujo run the institution, but it is necessary that the public also knows it and that is why it is worth reproducing some of her statements.
Elena Solís, on the functioning of the Cabildo of Lanzarote:
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"I couldn't do certain things because a councilor from PODEMOS tells me to because he comes from a meeting with Carlos Espino and Loly Corujo. I simply can't do it."
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"It's a sick building and I'm delighted to get out of there. What happens is that the officials can't tell it because they risk their bread, but the reality is that right now there is terrible pressure; people are very unhappy and nobody does anything."
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"The state of dismantling of the Cabildo is regrettable, where competent technicians have been removed to replace them with others more related."
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"The only time I have had the luck to talk to Dolores Corujo, because she has never ever agreed to see me, was by telephone, and she told me that I was a loose verse."
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"In the Cabildo you can't do absolutely anything that is not sanctioned and authorized by the Presidency. This is a great handicap for the democracy of this island."
This that Elena Solís denounces, is neither exclusive to this department nor is it anything that is not already known from inside. On the contrary, it is the general tonic in most areas of the institution and it is known by a good part of the staff, demotivated precisely by that, and by the undignified treatment to which a good part of it is being subjected by this president and her lieutenant.
To the above we must add some details about what, according to Solís, is the functioning and the role of PODEMOS in the government of the Cabildo that supports Corujo together with the transfuge Sosa:
Elena Solís, on the functioning of the PODEMOS group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote:
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"The elected councilors of PODEMOS have succumbed to the pressure and the eroticism of power."
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"PODEMOS in the Cabildo is a structure in which the two councilors have a very particular vision of democracy. They are direct instruments of Dolores Corujo."
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"The two councilors of PODEMOS have gone on their own and we don't know what they have been offered."
This makes it easy to understand why Yarci Acosta, the professional proposed by PODEMOS and also signed to give the false appearance of closeness to the postulates of César Manrique, and of sustainability to a government that does not sustain itself, has resigned from his position.
Especially because for the PSOE of Espino and Corujo, these imposed values have always mattered very little or nothing.
Honestly, I can't say the same about other socialists who preceded me like Enrique Pérez or Manuela Armas.
*Pedro M. San Ginés, deputy spokesman of the Nationalist Group CC-PNC in the Cabildo of Lanzarote
