The Local Committee of Nueva Canarias (NC) in Teguise will request in the plenary session this Tuesday that the municipality's parks be improved and transformed to adapt to the needs of children and the elderly.
The Canarian councilor, Dr. Fernando Jiménez, explains that "there are many public spaces in the municipality, such as parks and squares, that are deteriorated and lack inclusivity and intergenerational adaptation." Thus, Jiménez continues, "the children's areas are obsolete and deteriorated, in addition to the design corresponding to the old playgrounds where boys and girls have a set way of what to ride and how to play, restricting cognitive, physical and creative development."
For NC, the parks of the municipality of Teguise and Lanzarote should be directed towards an "open and intergenerational" design, which promotes health, imagination and social well-being. "It has been proven that parks contribute to improving the health of the community's residents, since they increase physical activity and socialization with other people," says Jiménez, who has spent decades recommending to his patients at the Teguise Health Center the importance of physical and mental activity.
"Populations that have a higher percentage of nearby parks maintain higher levels of health, lower morbidity and mortality, a consideration that the WHO points out, which certifies that forty-three thousand deaths a year could be prevented if the recommendations on access to green spaces were met at a distance of no more than 300 meters from each home," says the NC councilor.
With everything, the Canarians will attend this plenary session with the maximum predisposition to consensus with the conservative government group of CC, PP and Vox, but "knowing that the practices of rejection towards the opposition's proposals that they have been doing throughout the mandate will be imposed again to the detriment of the well-being of the population of Teguise."
Reform of the immigration law
The Canarians will also bring to this plenary session a motion to urge the Teguise City Council to ratify the Canarian Migration Pact signed last year by all the political groups present in the Parliament of the Canary Islands (except Vox) and the Government of the Canary Islands.
In the same way, they will urge the consistory to support the search by the Government of the Canary Islands and the Government of Spain for consensus in the Cortes Generales to modify the Immigration Law and thus be in solidarity with the Canary Islands in welcoming unaccompanied migrant minors. For the Teguise Consistory to commit to ensuring Human Rights and the rights of the child, regardless of their nationality and origin, understanding the humanitarian and solidarity values that the Canarian people have had throughout their history and as established by the values of any democratic system.
Finally, NC will seek for the Teguise City Council to "reject the blockade imposed by Vox on the reform of the immigration law", preventing the fair distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors by the rest of the Autonomous Communities.
