Coalition Canaria-PNC and the Socialist Group of Lanzarote (ASL) have reached an agreement for the incorporation of the people designated by the ASL to the lists of CC-PNC with which they will compete in the electoral elections of May 2023 in the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the city councils of Arrecife, Tías and Teguise.
After weeks of intense negotiations, both political forces have decided to join forces "to strengthen the commitment of both parties to claim before the governments of the Canary Islands and Spain of everything that by right corresponds to us and that many times has been denied to us by the submission to political projects that, in truth, have not defended Lanzarote as it needs and deserves”, explained the island secretary of Coalición Canaria, Migdalia Machín.
For his part, the president of the Socialist Group of Lanzarote, Pablo Eugenio Reyes, has defended the importance of the agreement in the fact that “the division of the political forces of Lanzarote and the consequent disintegration of their electorates, have only benefited organizations without obedience to this island and its people, which has led us to continue being a forgotten territory in the autonomous and state policies, as demonstrated by the fact that during these last four years we have moved to the tail in public investment”.
The agreement, signed on March 8, "represents an important step forward in the search for solutions to the problems that afflict the island, allowing efforts to be added and joint strategies to be established to address the issues that concern the citizens of Lanzarote".
The leader of Coalición Canaria in Lanzarote, Migdalia Machín, stressed the importance of the agreement reached and said that "the unity of action is necessary to face the challenges that Lanzarote must face immediately." For his part, the president of the Socialist Group of Lanzarote, Pablo Eugenio Reyes, stressed that "the union of both political forces will allow efforts to be added and joint strategies to be established to address the problems that, without a doubt, concern the citizens of Lanzarote."
"It is undeniable that, in the last four years, the investment and service debt of the supra-insular administrations with Lanzarote has increased exponentially." Faced with this scenario, both leaders have agreed that only the strength as an island territory and high levels of representation in the Canarian Parliament and local governments “will allow us to claim what we as a society need to achieve the levels of well-being that the signatories of this agreement desire”.
Both political formations have agreed to position Lanzarote in the Canarian context in accordance with "a series of proposals that seem fundamental for the ideal development of Lanzarote." In this line, the agreement between both formations is specified, in the first place, in "promoting the planned ordering of the territory looking for the general interest of the island, without giving up the legal security given by the planning, both insular and municipal", they point out from CC.
"Another of the battle horses of the new electoral coalition will be the claim of the increase in public investment on the island by the Government of the Canary Islands that rectifies the neglect of these last four years," say the Canarians.
Likewise, both formations have committed to "defend the burial of the LZ-2 and LZ-20 roads, at the height of Playa Honda and Argana, respectively, and demand the necessary financing for this instead of resorting to more harmful options with the environment and totally away from the general interest of Lanzarote."
Other measures agreed as a starting point of the agreement will be "the creation of new spaces for training and congresses on the island; the improvement of the island's sports infrastructure and the decided support for grassroots sports; the definition of new plans for the use and improvement of port spaces, demanding for Lanzarote the financing that has sometimes been denied; the claim of the installation of a third base of the Canarian Police in Arrecife so that it also forms part of the reality of Lanzarote; and to bet and collaborate with the third sector without giving up the social agreement as a tool for the best use of public resources in assisting those who need it, such as dependent and elderly people, among others", conclude from both parties.
