The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) and the Popular Party Group (PP) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote have requested the holding of an extraordinary plenary session to adopt the agreement to "desist from the ordinary bidding of the services provided to date by Adislan and to adhere to the recently published social agreement for the provision of this type of dependency services", as was foreseen in the Social Services Law.
Thus, this NGO, declared of public interest, would have "the same options as the rest of the third sector NGOs in the Canary Islands, to be able to continue with the service that for more than half a century has been offering to the citizens of Lanzarote and La Graciosa", according to both formations.
As nationalists and populars recall in their motion, the Government of the Canary Islands approved "at the end of the last term", the Social Services Law, then pending regulatory development, where in an additional provision "it was already foreseen that the groups and NGOs that have been working for decades with the so-called third sector, could continue to provide that service without necessarily having to resort to an ordinary public tender, for reasons of proximity, knowledge, experience and quality in the provision of services".
Both parties point out that all the councils of the Canary Islands accepted this provision except, "curiously, that of Lanzarote".
They detail that it was at the beginning of this year, specifically January 13, when Decree 144/2021, of December 29, was published in the BOC, which approves the Regulation of the social agreement in the field of social services of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, "without the Cabildo of Lanzarote seeming to have found out".
Both parties continue to state that precisely, the normative support offered by the decree "is what sustains the joint request for the first institution to desist from the ordinary bidding procedure for the services that Adislan has been providing for decades".
From CC and the Popular Party point out that, with "total lack of consideration towards AFA first and towards Adislan later", the institution led by the socialist Mª Dolores Corujo "has chosen to tender the management of both services, having already awarded the first of them, and is working for the imminent bidding of the second, in a drift of commercialization of the provision of social services that the third sector provides in Lanzarote, totally contrary to the spirit of the Law". "And what is worse, to the quality of the service for which the administration should ensure", both parties point out.
The president of the Cabildo "privatizes dependency services"
The Nationalist Group and the Popular Group denounce that, while in the Canary Islands the 'Pact of the flowers' (PSOE-NC-Podemos-ASG) "promotes and presumes of the agreement with NGOs in development of the Social Services Law, in Lanzarote", the president of the island's Cabildo, Dolores Corujo, "privatizes dependency services".
Now, both CC and PP in the Cabildo of Lanzarote question "what decision will Podemos take, government partner of the PSOE both in the Canarian Executive and in the island's Cabildo, regarding what is requested in the extraordinary plenary session and the position of the socialist president".
"Being a pact of the same color, it would be surprising that the purple formation in Lanzarote, which so presumes of progressivism, dialogue and consensus, would allow President Dolores Corujo, who has not deigned to receive the affected NGOs, to continue commercializing the provision of social services on the island", they point out in the joint statement.
"Wouldn't the head of the Social Rights Area, Noemí Santana, the parliamentarian for Lanzarote María del Río or the organization itself on the island have anything to say about it?", ask the formations signing the request for an extraordinary plenary session.
