Coalition Canaria in the Cabildo of Lanzarote denounces that the president of the Corporation, María Dolores Corujo, has approved "increasing the salary of her island directors appointed by hand by 60%", while aid for the pandemic for self-employed workers, SMEs and micro-enterprises "still does not arrive."
The spokesperson for the nationalists in the Cabildo, Samuel Martín, has stressed that the proposal has passed in the Finance Committee held this morning, "only with the vote of the PSOE, since the PP, like Podemos, has abstained, while Coalición Canaria has voted against."
"It is regrettable that as the situation is, each of these positions designated by hand will earn 85,000 euros, that is, more than any technician of the Cabildo with a higher qualification, which will mean an annual expense of 595,000 euros," says Samuel Martín.
The councilor describes as "wasteful and obscurantist" a president who believes that "she has little of a socialist." "More interested in pleasing those who are part of her propaganda machine than in worrying about all the people who have not yet managed to get back on their feet after the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic," adds Martín.
"What is also striking is that the proposal is motivated by the need to equalize the remuneration of the positions of island directors, but that equalization could also have been done downwards," adds the councilor, who explains that it would be achieved "by establishing a gross salary of 52,000 euros for each of them. However, according to the councilor, "now they all earn 85,000 euros".
From Coalición Canaria they add that with each of their actions, the PSOE demonstrates that "they care little about the waste of public money as long as their machinery is strengthened."
"In its day, this government changed the law of councils to be able to designate these positions by hand. Subsequently, the president increased the number of island directors to seven and, finally, when an island director earned what a technician of the Cabildo earned, about 52,000 euros, now their salary is increased by an average of 60% and they earn more than any other worker in the institution," emphasizes the spokesperson for CC-PNC, who insists that "while all this is happening, no one knows when the aid for the pandemic will reach its recipients."
