The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote asks the president, Mª Dolores Corujo, to reconsider her decision not to open the Papagayo campsite facilities this summer and instead, enable other spaces on the island.
"We don't understand what the point is, it's absurd, why do you want to enable other spaces instead of opening the one that already exists?", stressed the CC-PNC councilor Migdalia Machín.
For his part, the spokesperson for the Nationalist Group, Pedro San Ginés, recalls that "the solution to the camping areas goes through the Island Plan for the Ordering of Lanzarote (PIOL), which four years ago was a priority for the candidate but they blocked it for an entire legislature. Now all I hope is that they put it on the table once and for all, since they have been in government for a year," he says.
The nationalists also do not believe that "the health emergency situation in which the president is hiding is a valid enough reason since the Government has already allowed active and nature tourism since May 11."
"They just have to take a look and find out that there are campsites all over the State that have already started receiving their first customers, although the high season will begin on June 22, coinciding with San Juan", Machín emphasizes.
In fact, the Secretary of State for Tourism prepared the drafts of hygienic-sanitary measures for the safe reopening of eight tourism subsectors last May, including campsites, which will be part of the single health protocol against Covid-19 agreed with the autonomous communities.
"We cannot leave unanswered all the people who each year choose the option of enjoying their holidays in contact with nature, in caravans or in tents, what we have to do is implement all the approved measures and open these facilities with all the security guarantees", said the CC-PNC councilor.
Likewise, she recalled that while the Canarian Coalition was in government, the Papagayo campsite was always opened during the summer months and that, in fact, the specifications and the economic item were prepared so that it would also be opened this year.
"Are the circumstances different? Of course, but there are measures that can and should be established so that it can be opened and people can enjoy and not experiment."
In this way, the nationalist leader recalled that while CC, during its management, sought each summer the appropriate formulas so that campsite users were not affected, the vice president of the Cabildo, Jacobo Medina, after promising in his electoral program that he would open it all year round, what he has done has been to close it completely.
Finally, the nationalist group ironically points out that "if the reason for the decision of the Cabildo government is the ignorance of the measures to be taken in this case, CC-PNC reminds them:
- Maintain the safety distance, establishing a new arrangement of spaces if necessary.
- Extreme hygiene and cleaning measures.
- Capacity control: determine the maximum capacity in common areas
- Ensure the protection of employees.
- It is proposed to avoid greeting with physical contact, including shaking hands".
