The president of FAPA Lanzarote, Pedro Gil, held a meeting with the island secretariat of NC Lanzarote, led by nurse Yoné Caraballo, with the aim of transmitting their demand for the island to have its own representation on the School Council of the Canary Islands.
Currently, according to the FAPA representative, the associations of the non-capital islands such as Lanzarote have been excluded due to the split in the Confederation of Associations of Parents and Mothers of the Canary Islands.
“Lanzarote is the third island in the Canary Islands with the highest number of AMPAS, and despite this, it does not have representation on the School Council of the Canary Islands. We believe that this is discrimination and that it should be corrected,” says Caraballo.
The Canarian nationalists emphasize that until now there have been no problems in the representation body because there was a rotation system for the smaller islands, but due to the split of the Federations of Tenerife (CONFAPA), the island with the highest number of federations in the Canary Islands, proportionality has been broken and currently the eastern islands only have representation from Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, excluding Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
Therefore, NC demands territorial representation by islands and that the number of representatives be increased from five to seven, with which each island federation could have a voice on the School Council of the Canary Islands.
“Each island has its different problems and all must be represented in said autonomous body,” says Yoné Caraballo.
With everything, from NC Lanzarote this demand has been transferred to the parliamentary group of NC in the Parliament of the Canary Islands in order to give way to the request of the FAPA of Lanzarote.
