The PSOE of Lanzarote has accused the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, this Monday of “having the nerve to present himself as a solution to the housing problem when he has been, and continues to be, one of its main blockers”.
The socialists recall that the 201 public homes in Maneje "are not an achievement of the current island Government, but an action planned, financed and tendered under the socialist mandate in the Cabildo with María Dolores Corujo at the helm, and in coordination with the Government of the Canary Islands presided over by Ángel Víctor Torres".
“Coalición Canaria spent 26 years without building a single public home in Lanzarote. Now, Oswaldo Betancort takes the photo with some works that he found underway, and on top of that he wants us to thank him. It is an insult to the memory of so many families who have been waiting for decent housing for years,” Corujo denounced.
The deputy and island secretary of the PSOE has been blunt: “Not only has he not done absolutely anything in housing since he arrived, but he has blocked all the tools that would allow us to act urgently in the face of the housing emergency we are experiencing.”
“Betancort refuses to apply the Housing Law approved by the Government of Spain, refuses to declare stressed areas to limit rental prices, and has eliminated resources for social emergencies while the island is experiencing one of the biggest crises of access to housing in its history,” Corujo explained.
“All he is doing is propaganda. He lies, appropriates the work of others and blocks real solutions. Lanzarote does not need a president who takes photos, it needs a president who faces the problems of the people,” he concluded.
