The deputy for the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa and insular president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-bc), Yoné Caraballo, denounced this Wednesday at a press conference the treatment that the Canary Islands Government of CC and PP is once again giving to the island of Lanzarote in the General Budgets of the Canary Islands for 2026. Despite being the third island in population and one of the main contributors economically, "Lanzarote continues to be relegated to fifth place in budgetary growth," with an increase that Caraballo describes as "pure window dressing."
According to Caraballo, "Lanzarote barely increases by 13 million more than in 2025"; but, more seriously, "they cut 13 million in public housing; they don't invest a single euro in the Insular Hospital or in the Argana, Mala, and Playa Honda Health Centers; they eliminate budgets for the psychiatry unit; and we are once again left without a medicalized helicopter."The deputy denounces that, of the 144,693,636 million consolidated for Lanzarote, **50,416,936 million euros come from European MRR funds**, "generic, difficult to execute, and with an expiration date in August 2026"."It's an insult to intelligence. They've spent years demonstrating they can't even execute the most basic things, do they expect us to believe they're going to execute 50 million in just a few months? It's fictitious money, PowerPoint money, not a real investment for Lanzarote," stated Caraballo, who went on to express that "discounting those MRR funds, which are difficult to execute, the real allocation is reduced to barely 94,276,700 million euros, which demonstrates the absolute lack of commitment from the CC and PP government to this island.""If we remove the MRR funds, the investment per inhabitant goes from 872 euros to 569 euros; figures that place us below islands like El Hierro, La Gomera, or La Palma," Caraballo comments
"They repeat matches as if people don't notice"
Yoné Caraballo also denounces that the Canary Islands Government "once again includes repeated and unexecuted items in the budgets for 2024 and 2025 for a total of 8,511,995 million euros".
“Lanzarote doesn't need the same budget items repeated year after year. What it needs is for them to be **executed**. This isn't planning, it's accounting trickery. A deception and a disregard for our citizens,” Caraballo stressed.
Caraballo insisted that "the island is going through one of the most critical moments in terms of housing, health collapse, infrastructure deterioration, and population pressure, but the budgets do not respond to this reality"."Lanzarote has real problems that require real investments. And what they bring us is a pretty figure filled with smoke. We are not going to allow them to continue relegating us to the last wagon of the Canary Islands," concludes Yoné Caraballo.
