The PSOE of Lanzarote has accused Oswaldo Betancort of trying to ”pass the buck” of failing to fulfill his commitment to provide coverage for the situation of dependency and disability on the island. The socialist formation recalls that the current Minister of Social Welfare, Marci Acuña, set September 30 as the deadline for signing a transitional agreement.
The councilor of the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Isabel Martín Tenorio, has clarified that the recent signing of an agreement by the President with the third sector “is nothing more than a declaration of intentions that does not have an intervention report or a legal report because it has no economic content or legal validity. It is a mere protocol that does not give any type of coverage to the provision of services”, adds the councilor.
Martín has clarified that Oswaldo Betancort “lies and tries to mislead citizens by signing what is nothing more than a protocol that still fails to advance in the regulation of disability and dependency services. He promised something that he has not been able to fulfill and simply tries to get by improvising a blatant lie.”
“Oswaldo Betancort is prioritizing trying to clumsily pretend that a commitment is being fulfilled over giving guarantees to vulnerable groups. We are talking about people with disabilities, dependent people or people with mental health problems and their families, who need to be provided with resources and support with the utmost security, rigor and transparency, and not acts devoid of content,” adds the councilor.
“During the past term, the PSOE opened a path of organization to reverse more than a decade of neglect and, despite the pandemic, we managed to regularize four of the major services provided by the Cabildo,” Martín explained.
“It was not easy to manage the irregular situation that we inherited from the Coalición Canaria government, but we did so with transparency, honesty and without empty promises, providing the Cabildo's Social Welfare area with resources and planning a route that would provide short, medium and long-term responses that would guarantee correct care for disability and dependency. We urge Oswaldo Betancort to act responsibly and start working on the dignified and rigorous solution that users deserve,” she concludes.
