I am going to start this opinion article by asking my colleagues from the Canarian Coalition in the Island Council of Lanzarote to continue joining efforts and building bridges to the Haría City Council, as they have been doing until now, because it is the only way for the municipality not to be left behind as until now, and I also ask the Government of the Canary Islands to take Haría into account in its budgets.
We have been waiting for months to know what course the northern City Council has decided to follow with the new government group, since the only movement that is seen is generated by the so-called institutional inertia. It seems that the compass is not working yet. We are still waiting for a navigation chart in the form of a roadmap.
What is the destiny of Haría? On the verge of 2024, when we will no longer have the breeze in the stern of the budget adjustment law, as a great resource that allowed us to use our surplus, we will run aground again on a sandbank that will prevent large investments and that the basic needs of our municipality are met.
It is the bursts of investments that come from the Island Council and from the Government of the Canary Islands, regardless of the political color to which the crew belongs, that make it possible for municipalities such as Haría, given the lack of own resources, to take a step in sustainability, mobility or the Environment.
The institutional grounding that Haría has experienced in the last four years of insular and regional ineffectiveness is taking its toll. You don't have to go far to realize that those who are now at the helm in the City Council are the same ones who captained the Government and the Island Council in the past legislature.
They were the ones who were in possession of the helm that allowed them to avoid the reefs of the water problem in Lanzarote, the emergencies in the Mala Health Center, the dock and parking lots of Órzola, the lack of investment for the primary sector (cochineal plague in Mala) and fishermen from the North or the Haría palm grove.
Those same ones who had the opportunity to prevent the ship from running aground and went straight against the rocks, are the ones who now produce the groundswell and blame the Canarian Coalition for a lack of sensitivity.
I insist, let's be serious; the little tailwind that Haría receives comes from the Canarian Coalition team in the Lanzarote Island Council, which, regardless of who is on the bridge of the City Council, is strongly committed to this municipality.
Cultural, sports, investment and cleaning actions carry the support and seal of the First institution. Now it is up to others to adjust the sails to take advantage of this favorable wind and not lose the north.
And I end as I began; as secretary of the Local Committee of CC in Haría, I ask the Island Council not to wane in its efforts and increase institutional support so that Haría continues to advance. We have also asked the Government of the Canary Islands for this. If they do not continue betting on Haría, a sad future awaits us with the current municipal government.
