The island secretary of Coalición Canaria Lanzarote, Migdalia Machín, demands that the PSOE and its president in the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, define "once and for all what type of island they want", instead of sending contradictory messages "that are tremendously harmful to the island's tourism sector" and, therefore, to the island's economy.
As Machín emphasizes, the island executive has had four years "to set objectives and work towards achieving quality tourism to our island", but all they have done, in her opinion, "is waste time."
Qualifying the island as saturated "has set off all the alarms"
For the nationalist leader and also candidate for Parliament, the clearest example that socialists "don't know what they want" is that, depending on the scenarios, "they are capable of saying one thing and the opposite."
In this regard, she points out that "it makes no sense" that in Fitur they have "boasted" of closing agreements with tour operators, airlines and others to promote the Lanzarote destination, and that later in Lanzarote at a press conference, Corujo "sets off all the alarms" announcing that she wants to declare Lanzarote a tourist destination saturated.
In the same vein, the island secretary of Communication and Organization, Echedey Eugenio, emphasizes that if someone is looking for information about Lanzarote for their next vacation and it appears as a saturated destination, "the safest thing is that they will discard it without contemplation."
The pending tourist projects in Playa Blanca, an unknown
For his part, the CC candidate for the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, wanted to refer to the "selective memory" of a president "who seems not to remember" that it was her chief of staff, Carlos Espino, who, as Minister of Territorial Policy, negotiated with the company Yudaya S.L., the withdrawal of the only lawsuit among about thirty licenses canceled in Lanzarote that did not go ahead so that the license was granted to the hotel with the largest number of beds on the island, "which is being built at this time."
Therefore, Betancort has pointed out that, now, after the message that "has turned on all the alarms" both outside and inside the island, and that has "put the tourism sector in check", the island president will have to explain to Óscar Noda, mayor of Yaiza, what her plans are for the "thousands of beds and about ten plots for hotels and tourist complexes" that remain to be developed in Playa Blanca, especially in Montaña Roja, due to the failed Island Plan of Enrique Pérez of 1991, "which the courts overturned in that Partial Plan."
