Lanzarote En Pie in the Arrecife City Council regrets "the partisan use that the mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, makes of the institutional symbols of the capital municipal corporation in institutional communication, whose official coat of arms has not hesitated to modify to replace its colors, officially red and blue, with a completely blue one whose color code coincides with that of the Popular Party."
This was denounced by the LEP spokesperson, Leticia Padilla, who denounced that “beyond trying to assimilate the color of the official coat of arms of the institution to that of the Popular Party in its institutional communications, she has sent a circular to all municipal areas demanding the use of a specific typography that exactly matches the one used by the Popular Party.”
On July 6, Astrid Pérez sent a circular to all areas of the Arrecife City Council requesting that “the image and type of letter that is attached be maintained on posters, flyers, social networks, invitations, etc., that are made public from this Administration, in order to unify criteria and achieve the necessary "brand and/or corporate identity" that characterizes and identifies our city, port and capital of Lanzarote”, which, as can be seen in the attached images, are coincident with the corporate identity of the Popular Party.
Therefore, LEP has presented a motion in the ordinary plenary session held this Friday, July 29, for the restoration of the use of the official coat of arms of the Arrecife City Council in the field of institutional communication, which has been approved by all the municipal groups, with the exception of the Popular Party and the councilor of Somos, Eli Merino, the councilor of Nueva Canarias, Armando Santana, was not in the plenary session.
Padilla has reiterated that “during the current term, we have seen how the official image of the Arrecife City Council has undergone important changes without there being an express order to do so, modifying the official coat of arms of the municipality without following the administrative and legal procedures to do so.”
In the debate on the motion, the councilor of the municipal group, Leandro Delgado, recalled that “the official coat of arms of Arrecife has some colors and some elements and that to change them a plenary agreement is needed that requires technical reports. Well, the symbols and elements have been modified from the Mayor's Office without having brought them to the plenary session.”
Therefore, the municipal group of LEP has reiterated compliance with the plenary agreement of June 2021 that ordered the initiation of the file for the adoption of the flag and coat of arms of this municipality, whose file contains the appropriate technical reports related to institutional heraldry and the municipal flag, where it is clearly expressed what the official coat of arms of Arrecife is.
