She was in the People's Party (PP), then went to Ciuca, a local party, and now she's returning to the PP, but before that she was appointed to the regional leadership of the Canary Coalition (CC), adjunct to its leader, Clavijo Batlle. The mayor of Mogán, Onalia Bueno, has filed a high-stakes administrative lawsuit, both in regulatory and financial terms, against the public company Puertos Canarios, that is, against the regional councilor and CC leader on the island, Pablo Rodríguez. The conflict revolves around the ownership and management of the concession for the Port of Mogán, a strategic tourist and infrastructural hub whose future economic exploitation threatens to trigger a multi-million euro lawsuit against the coffers of the Canary Islands Government.
The southern municipality has submitted a formal set of objections to block the processing of an extraordinary 25-year extension requested by the private firm Puerto de Mogán SA. Municipal authorities maintain that the concessionaire lacks the legal standing to request such an extension, arguing that the original ownership of the port's public domain belongs exclusively to the municipality.
The root of the dispute dates back to the Ministerial Order of February 27, 1981, the foundational regulation that granted the concession to the City Council with an expiration date set for March 31, 2031. The local corporation considers it unacceptable that the regional administration is processing the request of a private entity while keeping frozen the extension request submitted by the City Council itself on June 23, 2025, which was rejected and is pending resolution on appeal.
The conflict transcends the realm of institutional competition, venturing into the territory of contingent financial risk. In its statement, the City Council warns that consolidating the private company's position through this extraordinary procedure would jeopardize the rights acquired over more than four decades by hundreds of individuals and local businesses. Holders of moorings, commercial premises, apartments, and tourist facilities linked to the port area would see their legal security compromised.
This eventuality would expose the regional government to a severe wave of lawsuits for liability. The involuntary degradation or termination of these usage licenses, formalized in good faith under the original municipal title, would trigger claims for millions of euros against the regional treasury.
The legal battle highlights procedural irregularities in the handling of the case. The municipality alleges that Puertos Canarios omitted substantial documents during the public hearing phase, including the initial application submitted by the company on May 29, 2025, the subsequent amendments submitted at the end of that same year, the bank guarantee, and the technical reports on the state of conservation of the infrastructure. Withholding the counter-report on conservation prevents an assessment of the true impact on the port asset.
The regional regulator's haste in activating a 25-year extension of the 1981 concession, extending it to five years beyond its natural expiration date, lacks economic justification or public interest. The lack of transparency in the handling of the file undermines the confidence of local investors. The resolution of this dispute will not only define the governance model for one of the archipelago's most profitable marinas, but will also test the Canary Islands' public finances' vulnerability to litigation stemming from legal uncertainty surrounding the concession.
