The deputy for the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa and island president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC), Yoné Caraballo, expressed this Sunday his discontent for "the latest occurrence" of the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort. Caraballo accuses the island leader of "paying through the Cabildo for a group of businessmen from the island a trip to Tenerife to hold a closed-door meeting in order to explain the new draft of the Island Planning Plan of Lanzarote (PIOL)".
For Caraballo, “this gesture says a lot about the current president and his political party, Coalición Canaria (CC), more concerned with pleasing businessmen than with acting as president of the social majority of Lanzarote”.
The Canarian asks himself "if a meeting with these Lanzarote businessmen in Tenerife was necessary, having a majestic white palace in Lanzarote such as the Cabildo, where there is plenty of space to hold this type of meeting”. On the other hand, Caraballo "does not see it as ethical or aesthetic that the first people to have the PIOL proposal explained to them are a specific group of businessmen, while the social majority of Lanzarote are excluded from participating in this important plan”.
“There are other businessmen, individuals, associations, groups and political parties that have the same right, even more, to know this plan first-hand and know what criteria the government group maintains”, comments Caraballo, who sees “an evident preferential treatment in the treatment that CC gives to businessmen above all the Lanzarote residents who have to queue in the administration to register a complaint or request a permit and wait months for a resolution”.
According to NC-BC, “this is how CC spends it when it is in power, first its own and then the social majority”.