Coalición Canaria Lanzarote, through its local secretary, Pedro San Ginés, denounces the "enormous contradiction and double discourse of 'this PSOE'" in relation to the granting of licenses for new tourist constructions on the island.
While the general secretary of the socialists on the island and deputy, Dolores Corujo, accuses the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, of "continuing to grant licenses," "the truth is that the Cabildo of Lanzarote does not grant building licenses, limiting itself only to issuing sectorial reports adjusted to the norm," they stated.
The one issuing building permits is the Tías Town Council, presided over by the number two of the PSOE and island Secretary of Organization, José Juan Cruz, who, when asked about new hotels in a recent interview on SER Lanzarote, stated that "we will grant licenses for new construction if they comply with the planning regulations."
From Coalición Canaria they emphasize "the hypocrisy of the PSOE, which while accusing the island government of something impossible, because it is not their responsibility, on the other hand announces that in the only tourist City Council they preside over, they will continue to authorize licenses if they comply with the current planning, whose effects have created convenient coverage in the Municipal Modernization Plan being processed."
"The PSOE has reached a level of political hypocrisy without limits. Dolores Corujo accuses the Cabildo of something it doesn't do, while her number two and mayor of Tías announces that he will continue granting licenses for hotels and new constructions. It is clear that what they criticize without foundation in the opposition is exactly what they practice where they govern," says Pedro San Ginés.
The leader of Coalición Canaria Lanzarote recalls that "although we agree with stopping, political coherence should be a minimum requirement, especially in a debate as sensitive as that of the tourism model and the impact on the local population, water resources, public services and housing."
In this way, San Ginés emphasizes that "citizens deserve less demagoguery and more rigor in a matter that is crucial for the present and future of the island, which must be addressed, where and how the Government presided over by Oswaldo Betancort is doing it. That is, in the island planning, which Corujo, by the way, despised and literally threw in the trash, or in the Municipal Modernization Plan of Tías, where, by the way, the PSOE also plans new tourist beds."
"Of course we have to stop, but not with the boundless hypocrisy of the PSOE," San Ginés asserts.