Coalición Canaria, through its representatives on the Island Council, will ask this Friday that "the rule established by the General Public Directorate for Phase 2 be strictly complied with and that the public be allowed to attend sports facilities with 25% capacity."
Likewise, Coalición Canaria announces that, regardless of what said Island Council decides, the town councils where the nationalists hold the Mayor's Office (Teguise, Tinajo and Haría), "will apply and respect the established rule, and will ask that such a proposal be extended to the rest of the municipalities."
“In Lanzarote, public attendance has never been allowed since the pandemic began, not even when the island was in phase 1. It is time to make coherent decisions,” said the island secretary, Migdalia Machín, who emphasizes that the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands "has always allowed public attendance" in alert level 2 and that "it has been the Cabildo of Lanzarote, through its president and its Minister of Sports, who has prohibited it."
“In fact, it has not yet been authorized even though we have been in said phase for a week,” Machín emphasizes. Similarly, CC says it does not understand why the Government of the Canary Islands, "now that Gran Canaria and Tenerife are at level 3, does allow the opening of gyms, while Lanzarote was not allowed at any time."
“We don't know if the president of the Cabildo has a special interest in harming sports activity. What is clear is that the PSOE, either in the Cabildo or in the government, is the one punishing the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa,” says the nationalist leader.
"Throughout the year of the pandemic, many of the decisions that have come out of said body have not been shared by CC; such is the case, for example, of what happened with the artisan and agricultural markets of Tinajo or Haría, which opened despite not having the consensus of the Island Council," they say in a statement.
