The pitcher goes to the fountain so many times that it is impossible for it not to break. This is what has now happened to the Yaiza City Council. Despite the policy defended by the southern mayor, José Francisco Reyes, of ...
The pitcher goes to the fountain so many times that it is impossible for it not to break. This is what has now happened to the Yaiza City Council. Despite the policy defended by the southern mayor, José Francisco Reyes, from the outside, a policy consisting of ensuring that no information has ever been hidden from the Cabildo and that all the licenses that were granted or extended during the period of approval or processing of the moratorium were correct, the truth is that it has been hidden. The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) repeats it in this latest provision known this Thursday -although it arrived at the Territorial Policy Area days before- in which it forces the secretary of the southern City Council to deliver once and for all the licenses that are still kept in that filing cabinet that José Francisco Reyes said he was willing to have the Cabildo take "whole" and "without dismantling".
This judicial decision undoubtedly represents the definitive endorsement that the Cabildo needed to sink its teeth into information that they consider fundamental to continue advancing in their idea that it is others and not them who have violated the law. For many weeks, especially as a result of the judgments and resolutions linked to the Montaña Roja Partial Plan, the legal services of the Cabildo had to endure all kinds of insults, misinformation in which the possibility was raised that one after another all the lawsuits were going to be lost. Nothing could be further from the truth. The only lawsuit that has been lost, and which has nothing to do with the tourist moratorium, is that of Montaña Roja, and it was lost, in a much smaller part than what is implied, because the Government of the Canary Islands withdrew the compensation provisions that the First Corporation had contemplated.
What has happened now confirms that the Yaiza City Council was lying, or at least not telling the whole truth. And the High Court could not have said it more clearly: either all the documentation is delivered in five days or the fines begin and the case is transferred to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Ignoring the accusations of the opposition, the socialists are still very clear that we must continue with the policy that their colleague Enrique Pérez Parrilla established: zero tolerance with those who attack the basic precepts of the moratorium. And this zero tolerance also includes the Teguise City Council, which in this matter has maintained a policy similar to that of Yaiza, whether or not a government partner such as Juan Pedro Hernández is in charge.
As we have been telling you, in this month and a half that remains to finish the year, information of this type will continue to be produced. It gives us the feeling that the majority, if not all, will be favorable to the theses defended by the Cabildo. Then, when all this is over, people like the former secretary of the Arrecife City Council and defense lawyer in these lawsuits of Yaiza and Teguise, Felipe Fernández Camero, should give some explanations, more than anything about the support of a thesis as striking as that of the unconstitutionality of the tourist moratorium itself.
