A representation of the Socialist Regional Executive, headed by the Secretary of Organization and President of the Parliamentary Group, Nira Fierro, visited Lanzarote this Monday, on the occasion of a working and coordination day with public officials and the Island's members.
The leadership of the PSOE Canarias, together with the island secretary and deputy Loli Corujo, took the opportunity to meet with the three mayors that the socialist formation has in Lanzarote and their respective government teams: Isidro Pérez in San Bartolomé, José Juan Cruz in Tías and Alfredo Villalba in Haría.
Fierro pointed out that municipalism is one of the great strengths of the PSOE in the Canary Islands and explained that with this trip to Lanzarote, the Socialist Regional Executive is starting a round of visits to all the islands, coinciding with the start of the new political cycle. "It is what we socialists like to do the most, to walk the streets and be with the neighbors. We have a wonderful network that are our councilors and mayors, which make it possible for the Socialist Party to have more than 140 years of history," he said.
The Socialist Secretary of Organization took the opportunity to ask the partners in the Government of the Canary Islands, CC and PP, to stop looking for excuses, looking "backwards", at what was done by the Executive of Ángel Víctor Torres, and "upwards, to the government of Pedro Sánchez", and to focus once and for all on their own management. Once they have brought forward their first budgets, "we ask them for rigor, work and seriousness," he said, and that "they assume what they themselves have approved, which, as we have said on repeated occasions, are accounts that take us quite far from the solutions required by the social majority."
In this sense, he criticized that "these are budgets that do not comply with the Social Services Law, that do not comply with the Education Law, that do not comply with the Culture Law and therefore will not provide a solution to the problems of the Canarians,"
Nira Fierro has also referred to the General State Budgets, whose materialization is of vital importance for the Archipelago. She has requested high-mindedness and responsibility from all parties involved in the negotiation, especially the Popular Party, more interested at the moment in attending to its partisan strategy than in defending the interest of the Canary Islands.
Corujo denounces unprecedented discrimination
For her part, the island's general secretary and deputy Dolores Corujo has denounced the mistreatment of Lanzarote in the first budgets of the regional government of CC and PP. "Never in the history of the Canary Islands has the island of Lanzarote been so mistreated and humiliated as they have done in these budgets of the autonomous community. We have become the fifth island in investment and spending, an unprecedented humiliation," she said.
Corujo has given as an example of this grievance the fuel bonus approved for the green islands (El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma) and denied to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura: "They are completely different ways of governing and understanding public resources. The Socialist Party, with Ángel Víctor as president, never made a decision that went against the social majority of the Canary Islands and neither of Lanzarote. Never was there a discrimination like the one we are suffering at this moment."
