The President of the Canary Islands Government, Fernando Clavijo, recalled during the first day of the Debate on Nationality that "the Flower Pact led by the Socialist Party left a negative balance of 150 million euros for Lanzarote in the last legislature, between the money projected and the executed, something that has marked the work of the first months on the island".
'Creating the future costs', he said, and that is why he has "asked for time for some of the measures to take hold, such as the reduction of fuel on the 'green islands'", which will also "be studied for Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, or the new rates for the self-employed".
The president also spoke of the "water emergency in Lanzarote and the sanitation of La Graciosa" and stressed that the Canarian government has focused "all its efforts in terms of water on facing the serious supply crisis suffered last summer in both islands".
He also stressed that they are working with the Cabildo to "speed up the processing of pending works and that two portable desalination plants have been transferred to Lanzarote from La Palma". In addition, he stressed that they are "working on the declaration of works of regional interest for the supply, sanitation and purification projects of La Graciosa".
Among other projects, Fernando Clavijo stressed that the Canarian Executive has allocated "one million euros more to end the affectation suffered by the palm groves of Lanzarote by the Diocalandra; an island where vegetation is scarce, but where palm trees have been and are a clear sign of identity in many municipalities of the island".
The island secretary of the Canarian Coalition in Lanzarote, Migdalia Machín, stressed that "fortunately, we are facing a very different way of working because now the singularities and particularities of each island do matter" and highlighted the "progress that during the first eight months of the legislature has already begun to be seen in Lanzarote in terms of Health, Housing or Social Welfare", among others.