"If you seek different results, don't always do the same thing," said Albert Einstein, and today they use it as a slogan in a famous advertising campaign. In short, the German physicist encouraged changing the method, the way of approaching a problem to obtain a different outcome.
The President of the Cabildo could well apply it if he wants to advance in the approval of the planning instruments on the island of Lanzarote after almost nine years of failure, not exclusive, but yes, a protagonist when we talk about San Ginés and his relationship with the territory.
To add support, he must alter his strategy. Insisting on past mistakes will not change the result, deepening the paralysis and confrontations that have marked his mandate, especially in planning matters. It's time to change.
It is essential to talk not only about the Piol, but about all the documents pending approval. Aren't the new Special Plan for La Geria or the Prug of Chinijos important? Is the Presidency no longer interested? I think he is concerned, although he is not currently occupied. What was a priority yesterday seems like it can wait today.
It is essential to put on the table the technical, legal and political difficulties that each of the documents has, in an exercise of transparency that forges the reciprocal trust that these processes require.
And necessary, to conceive the territory and its norms as a shared work, in plural, that requires negotiation, renunciation and agreement.
However, the President insists on the forms that have led us to territorial regression.
In case there were any doubts, the latest example is with the environmental body that the Cabildo intends to create in application of the new Land Law. An island body that will replace the Cotmac when it comes to environmentally evaluating island plans, programs and projects, with Lanzarote under this Presidency, once again, the last to initiate its constitution.
What the Cotmac previously reported, now an island body will do. Regardless of its convenience, which I have always denied, the President and his Government in the draft Regulation for its creation, bet that its members be designated by agreement adopted by a simple majority of the Governing Council, instead of it being the Plenary, as other Cabildos have done, such as Gran Canaria or Tenerife, even requiring in the latter case a qualified majority agreement.
Granting the Plenary the competence guarantees the participation of all political forces and councilors in the election of the people who will make up a body in charge of environmentally informing on issues as relevant as island planning. The opposite reduces the parties of the Government and a few councilors to the decision regarding an entity that must act with independence, impartiality and objectivity.
If the proposal of the President and his Government group prospers, the four parties and eleven councilors that make up the opposition at this time will have nothing to contribute. Is that the role that the President has reserved for the opposition in these matters? Will he thus ensure the appearance of independence, impartiality and objectivity? With members only proposed by the Government? Is this how he wants to advance in territorial matters? Is this how he builds the political consensus that the island needs in planning matters? Bad decision. Without Einstein there is no paradise, without rectification President, the possibility of agreement on this and other issues vanishes. Not like that.
