The candidate of Somos Lanzarote-Nueva Canarias to the Parliament of the Canary Islands for Lanzarote, Borja Rubio, visited the facilities of Harinera Lanzaroteña this Wednesday in order to learn firsthand about the reality of the island's industry. This company, which has been in the news in recent months due to its economic survival problems, is, for Somos Lanzarote, "the example of the negative consequences left by an economic and political model centralized in Gran Canaria and Tenerife".
"Industry in Lanzarote is being dismantled due to the absence of measures that incentivize and protect its proliferation and good health. The Government of the Canary Islands, presided over by Coalición Canaria but with alternation of PP and PSOE in its governments, focuses its policies on the two capital islands, increasing the gap with the rest and putting the industrial fabric of Lanzarote in a subordinate situation, which disables it from competing normally", Rubio pointed out.
In addition, Rubio has proposed that "the fraudulent use of the REA and the accumulation of transport" be prosecuted, and has put on the table the need to seek fiscal mechanisms to protect the island market, and "that Lanzarote also be a place of production and not just consumption".
The industry of Lanzarote, potential generator of employment
Likewise, the island formation, which points out that it has warned throughout the legislature about the need to influence the internal market of the island and to diversify the productive sectors, sees in the industry of Lanzarote an emerging development path for the island. Even in the labor aspect, where Somos Lanzarote understands that it is a potential generator of employment.
"To build a Lanzarote with better levels of well-being, it is necessary to have an industry that mixes self-consumption and export with guarantees. There is too much talk about the diversification of the economy in Lanzarote and the need to explore economic alternatives to tourism, because I am convinced that with an industrial fabric in accordance with the dimensions of the island, that objective can be achieved", said the candidate of Somos-NC to the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
"In addition, it functions as an indisputable generator of employment. The industry in Lanzarote has to have the appropriate mechanisms for the growth and development of its internal fabric, the centralist model that the parties that have taken turns in the government of the autonomy have led us to must end, and we have the responsibility to generate a more balanced Canary Islands, without unfair competition, that respects Lanzarote and, more fair", concluded Borja Rubio.
