The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has welcomed the fact that, after its complaint about the "abandonment" of the fishing sector, "the Government of the Cabildo has recognized its serious mistake and, therefore, corrected and recovered part of the aid to said sector".
In this regard, the nationalists recall that they joined the discomfort of the guilds, who felt "totally deceived" by the Minister of Fisheries, Ángel Vázquez, given that "the island government never managed to enable the aid in 2020, nor in 2021, despite having promised to double it." "They simply contemplated in the Strategic Subsidy Plan, but without budgetary allocation, 33,000 euros of aid to the guilds, which would have been less than half of what was promised, that is, the 80,000 euros that they are now enabling," they point out from CC.
Now, the CC councilor, Domigo Cejas, states that an extraordinary credit modification that will go to the next plenary session "is clear proof that they had reduced aid to less than half”. However, he states that "they have forgotten the aid to the Piedra La Santa Fishermen's Association, which was also contemplated in 2018 and 2019, as well as the 100,000 euros of aid to coastal fishing".
"Such has been the pressure from CC and the guilds themselves, that the Government has been forced not only to reconsider what they approved in their day, failing to fulfill their promises in 2020, but they have not even waited for the incorporation of remnants, whose need they used as a pretext, to finally simply modify the budgets and take the funds from chapter 2 of other expenses of the Fisheries Area”", he adds.
However, he points out that "aid to the fishing sector as a whole is still less than half of what it was before the pandemic, that is, 110,000 euros compared to 244,000".
