The PSOE of Lanzarote has joined the complaint made by the PSOE of the Canary Islands in what they consider "an unprecedented institutional scam by the Government of the Canary Islands, by falsifying more than 9,000 benefits in matters of dependency with the sole objective of masking its disastrous management".
The general secretary of the socialists in Lanzarote and deputy in Congress, María Dolores Corujo, has described this action as "an unforgivable betrayal of the most vulnerable people", and has directly pointed to the complicity of the president of the Cabildo and parliamentarian, Oswaldo Betancort, "who remains silent while his political partners destroy the public care system".
"Social policy cannot become a showcase. You cannot lie with the data while thousands of people wait to be attended to. What this Government is doing is deeply cruel to our elders," said Corujo.
The PSOE recalls that "it was the Imserso itself, after repeated complaints from the Socialist Party, who confirmed that the Government of the Canary Islands was counting as granted more than 9,000 benefits that were never processed." "We are not talking about a technical error. We are talking about a conscious strategy to appear effective, while in reality rights are cut and those who need the most support are abandoned," he denounced.
"To this is added another shocking fact: more than 1,000 people who had been waiting for an assessment for more than three years have been discharged. It is the height of institutional cruelty. They neither attend to them nor give them answers: they erase them from the system," Corujo lamented.
The socialist deputy has linked this "abandonment of dependency with the generalized deterioration of public services on the island." "The waiting list to be seen by a specialist at the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital has registered its worst data in ten years. The damage is evident, and those who remain silent in the face of this reality, like Oswaldo Betancort, are as responsible as those who execute it," he stressed.
"You cannot govern from deceit and propaganda. What our elders need is respect, attention and a policy that puts them at the center, not that uses them to inflate figures," Corujo concluded.
