The general secretary of the PSOE in Lanzarote, Loli Corujo, celebrated this Tuesday the decision of the Electoral Board to suspend the campaign initiated by the Chamber of Commerce and defended that the "only motivation" behind it is that of "four businessmen" who intend to "put and remove mayors who approve their General Plan".
"I could never have imagined that they would go so far, that they would be capable of influencing and trying to influence an electoral process by campaigning to remove a government", Corujo said. In addition, she has criticized the "complicit silence" of the Government of the Canary Islands in the face of "this shameful situation", which the Board has now ordered to be transferred to the Duty Court in case those responsible for this campaign have incurred in possible crimes.
"Here is the key to everything that has been happening unfortunately in the city of Arrecife, the General Plan", added the general secretary of the PSOE, also recalling that the draft of the document was "transferred to the Chamber of Commerce before the City Council was aware of it". Something that "has never happened", she lamented, recalling that the regional government presented the document at the headquarters of the chamber entity. "And that happened in Arrecife with the blessing of the Government of the Canary Islands", said the general secretary of the PSOE, who also showed some brochures presented now by the Chamber of Commerce and signed by other employers' associations on the island, in which a series of actions are proposed in the capital related to the General Plan.
In this regard, Corujo recalled that the General Plan contained several agreements on certain pieces of land that "have to disappear" from the document, since "the Justice gave the reason to the City Council" in the lawsuits for those lands. Some lawsuits "where the City Council defended the general interest and not the particular interest of four"", she said.
"The president of the Chamber will have to explain many things, including the messages he has sent to the business sector asking workers to vote in one direction or another", said the general secretary of the PSOE, who clarified that it is a "fortunately minority business sector". "Do they intend to put and remove mayors who approve their General Plan? Is that the message they are conveying to the citizens?", Loli Corujo questioned.
"Some intend to recover the black history of Arrecife"
"Enough of this shame that we have lived and suffered, as if no one remembered what has happened in the City Council of Arrecife, the biggest case of corruption in the Canary Islands and Spain, with the well-known and unfortunate Unión case", said the general secretary of the PSOE, who believes that "some intend to recover the black history of Arrecife".
Thus, Corujo has warned that "the PSOE will continue with the legal actions" against the campaign of the Chamber of Commerce, of which she has also pointed out that it will be necessary to see "with what money it has been paid", in case it has been public. "The judicial procedure will continue because, in democracy, no democrat can allow an interference of this type", said the general secretary of the Lanzarote socialists, who has also stated that "the vast majority of businessmen in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands are disconcerted". "And the legal services of Ferraz could not believe it, but this is what happens in Arrecife: the General Plan and the pressure of four", she concluded.
