The Arrecife City Council ended the recent Christmas holidays with a new record in public spending. According to the PSOE's complaint, the City Council allocated nearly 2.87 million euros to the Christmas program, a figure that exceeds 3 million if municipal staff overtime, healthcare expenses, and private security are added.
The celebrations, which extended from early December to January 5, represented an average expenditure of nearly 100,000 euros per day for approximately one month. An expense that, according to the socialists, "adds to a dynamic of continuous waste since the beginning of Yonathan de León's term."
According to data provided by the PSOE, from July 2023 to January 2026, the City Council would have spent around 27 million euros on parties and events. "Any serious manager would be ashamed to spend that amount in just two and a half years," stated socialist spokesperson Cristina Duque, who described Arrecife as "a party room with permanent revelry."
Duque denounces that, far from showing concern, the mayor "boasts of being the biggest squanderer in the island's history," while the city continues to suffer from serious deficiencies. Among these, he recalled the closure of the capital's main beach, the lack of basic infrastructure, and the absence of essential services such as cleaning or rat extermination.
"The problem is not just the spending, but the absolute lack of priorities," states the socialist councilwoman, who even warned of the risk of economic bankruptcy for the City Council. "It's as if De León wanted to ruin the capital of Lanzarote while having his last drink," she added.
From the socialist group, they demand "responsibility and common sense" from the governing group in the management of public money. "The resources of the citizens of Arrecife cannot continue to go down the drain of revelry and debauchery," states Duque, insisting that the current management model is leaving the city without services and without a future
