"Celebrating certain carnival events at the fairgrounds is perfectly compatible with the auto-covid if it is moved a few meters." That is what the Popular Party defended this Wednesday, two weeks after the controversy broke out, in which the City Council has not officially spoken out until now, beyond isolated and in some cases contradictory statements.
The Health Department assured that what the City Council asked them was to vacate the autocovid for the festivities, without giving them an alternative, but the PP now affirms that "the position maintained from day one by the City Council" is to "temporarily move" that facility.
In addition, they have lashed out at the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, who announced this Tuesday that the autocovid will remain where it is, based on the authorization signed by the City Council at the beginning of the pandemic, ceding that space for the time "necessary for carrying out tests." According to the PP, this is a "unilateral" position of the president, whom it accuses of "intransigence" and of "reducing the situation to health or carnivals."
"A clearly malicious and lying discourse if we take into account that there are alternatives and that they are the ones who, precisely, from minute one, have refused to explore them," says the PP. "They started talking about eviction when at all times it was said transfer, and that already showed that the only intention of the Socialist Party has been to create controversy with the sole purpose of Arrecife not having carnival, as they already tried with the Three Kings parade," denounces the general secretary of the Popular Party, Jacobo Medina.
"In this case, it is the same. They cling to a topic precisely like health to hide their true intention, which is to boycott everything that comes from the government of the capital," says the secretary of the Lanzarote Popular Party, who specifies that in any case, "everyone knows that the celebration of the carnival is subject, obviously, to the health regulations that exist at that time."
For the Popular Party members, "what nobody understands, because they have taken great care not to do so, is to explain to the citizens what obstacles, what insurmountable inconveniences are presented to the Cabildo, the Consortium and Health, the temporary displacement of the service within the same perimeter and thus enable the residents of Arrecife to enjoy their carnivals and their party safely."
"Auto-covid and carnivals are not mutually exclusive, no matter how much the president of the Cabildo insists, who once again shows her intransigence wrapped in an aura of do-gooding, and also lying, implying that Arrecife wants to eliminate the service, which is absolutely false, or that Arrecife is playing and putting the health of the population at risk, which is already an immorality on the part of a president of the Cabildo," Medina insists.