Coalición Canaria has demanded that the president of the Cabildo explain “once and for all how and in what conditions all the people who arrive by boat to the coasts of Lanzarote and La Graciosa are being cared for” and urges her to stop “hiding and demand that Madrid act urgently to solve this serious humanitarian crisis that, far from disappearing, is increasing as the months go by.”
“On January 20, 2021, from CC we denounced the situation through a press release in which we wondered how long the competent authorities planned to continue standing idly by in the face of the drama of irregular immigration. That day we counted the arrival to our coasts of 134 people aboard five boats in less than 24 hours. A year later, today, January 24, 2022, 450 people have arrived in 48 hours to our coasts aboard nine vessels of this type”, laments the island secretary of CC in Lanzarote, Migdalia Machín.
From CC they assure that throughout the last year, the complaints of the nationalists “have been constant, but there has been no response from the PSOE”, whose highest representative on the island “has preferred to remain with her eyes closed, as well as the president of the Canary Islands, the senator for Lanzarote and the island director of the General State Administration and even the delegate of the Government in the Canary Islands.”
“We have the town councils completely saturated, on the verge of collapse, without resources, exhausted and ignored. Without counting on them for issues as important as the location of the SIVE, the removal of boats from the coasts, the accommodation of all these people, minors and adults, and the coverage of their basic needs, in addition to all the PCR tests that have to be done and to which personnel have to be assigned, since it is mandatory in the health situation we are experiencing,” adds Machín.
CC insists that the island “lacks the infrastructure to support so much burden, that all services are saturated and that accommodations are improvised without sense and without guaranteeing minimum conditions of hygiene.”
“There is no humanity. They don't care. It is easier to pretend that it is not happening than to demand solutions and confront the Government of Spain and the Socialist Party in Madrid. Meanwhile, here we still do not know what the PSOE's intentions are with respect to a crisis that has intensified especially throughout 2021, and that continues to put at risk the lives of many people whose only objective has been and is to find a better future than the one that awaits them in their places of origin,” said the Secretary of Organization of the Lanzarote nationalists, Echedey Eugenio.
