Coalición Canaria has lamented that Lanzarote has entered the red zone "without the Government of the Canary Islands or the Island Council contemplating any rescue plan, not even a basic package of measures and aid, for the main sectors affected by the ‘closure’ of the island (commercial, sports, cultural, leisure and restaurant)".
The island secretary of the Lanzarote nationalists, Migdalia Machín, points out that "the latest unemployment figures put the registered unemployment on the island at 63% and that the losses faced by the aforementioned sectors in the next 15 days (until January 28) are incalculable."
The Lanzarote nationalists consider that the health control measures taken are endorsed by the scientific committee and, therefore, “respond to a technical criterion that must be followed and complied with”. "We do not doubt its necessity and opportunity in view of the worrying contagion data that is being released in Lanzarote and La Graciosa after the last Christmas parties," they point out.
However, Machín considers that it was "something that was already foreseen”. and that, in this way, many of these restrictions "arrive late" and "without economic support for the commerce, leisure or restaurant sectors, in addition to the sports and cultural sectors, which face economic losses and, inevitably, job losses".
“You cannot improvise when you already knew that we could not lower our guard. These economic activities were among those that suffered the most during confinement, some have not reopened their doors. If that rescue plan is not approved, their ERTEs will become EREs”, warns the nationalist leader.
Likewise, CC points out the "contradictions" of "a decree that closes cultural, sports and restaurant spaces, but keeps shopping centers open".
A package of proposals with measures for the self-employed and SMEs in Arrecife
For its part, given the "lack of extraordinary measures to alleviate the impact on the island's economy and on the different economic sectors", the Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Arrecife City Council has already prepared a package of proposals that will be submitted to the next plenary session of the Corporation and that includes measures "both for the self-employed and all types of SMEs, from artisans to gyms".
"Everyone has suffered and will continue to suffer on their businesses and companies the impact of the health measures adopted by the Government of the Canary Islands and the decisions adopted by the Cabildo of Lanzarote and, in this case, the City Council of the capital, in the Island Tables", concludes CC, which highlights that Arrecife is already the "fifth city in the ranking of cities in the entire Spanish State where contagions have grown the most after the Christmas dates".