The Parliament of the Canary Islands has unanimously approved a Non-Law Proposal defended by the Lanzarote deputy of CC, Jesús Machín, and presented together with David de la Hoz and Oswaldo Betancort, in which a permanent detachment of the Civil Guard in La Graciosa was requested.
"The security situation on the island requires more presence given that the Local Police of the Teguise City Council is totally overwhelmed by not being able to assume it", Machín pointed out, who has defended that with this provision would give "response to the inhabitants concerned about this situation, to which are added the more than 20,000 visitors who come to the island every year".
In this sense, the Lanzarote deputy pointed out that "the business owners, aware of the situation, have raised their voices, through the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote so that the necessary means are put in place and stressed that this agreement "emanates from Parliament" highlighting the work of the delegate councilor of La Graciosa, Alicia Paéz, "to claim, fight and protect her Graciosero neighbors", and that of the local police of Teguise, "who juggles to provide troops within their possibilities and perform work that does not correspond to them".
Machín: "It is surprising that the PSOE considers that there is no insecurity"
Machín stressed that there was unanimity in this Non-Law Proposal "when the Socialist group and the Podemos group were against increasing the police endowment in their interventions, that except for the Popular group, no deputy from Lanzarote defended it", according to CC.
"It is surprising that the Socialist Party considers that there is no insecurity in La Graciosa and that the Podemos Group thinks that the arrival of the Civil Guard to the island will make the neighbors have to change their behavior", lamented the nationalist.
In any case, CC considers that the status of La Graciosa should be the starting point to continue improving living conditions, and that "it gives the feeling that this government does not feel that it has any obligation to the island, since in the Draft Budget Law there is no separate item". "From the Nationalist Group we have presented amendments correcting such grievance. The recognition as an island was not a whim that appeared on a paper, it was a real commitment to the welfare of the Gracioseros", Machín insisted.
The PP defends that there should be at least one couple of civil guards
"Of course, the Popular Group is going to support without any doubt that the island of La Graciosa has at least one couple of permanent Civil Guard", said for his part the Lanzarote deputy of the PP, Ástrid Pérez, who has insisted that "it is an island that has approximately 738 inhabitants" and that "receives more than 250,000 visitors a year".
In addition, the popular parliamentarian has defended that La Graciosa cannot be compared "with situations of other territories or small municipalities of the Canary Islands". "We are talking about an island, which is often complicated, because due to bad weather you cannot get there; we are talking about an island that, in terms of security, there is only one local police officer", added Pérez, who, in this regard, has pointed out that Teguise also only has 43 local police officers "despite being the second municipality with the largest population of Lanzarote", so "it is very difficult for the City Council to increase the Local Police".
"We are talking about the safety of people and there the Gracioseros will always find us. You cannot propose discrimination and triple insularity to the Canarians for living on different islands", added Ástrid Pérez, who also stressed that there was already Civil Guard in La Graciosa for several days a week, in the time when the PP governed.
