The councilors of the Popular Party Group in the Teguise City Council, Jonás Álvarez and Nieves Arrocha, consider it totally unacceptable that the councilor responsible for the Festivities area has considered holding a virtual street band contest within the events planned for the Carnival.
According to the information provided by the council this Monday, the participating street bands must send a video between February 1 and 14 that will be subsequently evaluated by a jury linked to the world of culture.
For the Popular Party, it is "an recklessness and a very serious irresponsibility that the councilor is considering this activity that would force the members of the participating street bands to meet in order to perform their songs." All this at a time when the island is in phase 4 and meetings of more than two people are prohibited.
“It is regrettable and truly a shame that in the complicated situation we are in, when deaths are being recorded due to COVID, when the healthcare staff is overwhelmed and they are calling for individual responsibility from everyone because they are completely overwhelmed by infections and admissions, a public official launches this type of initiative that promotes the opposite,” says Álvarez.
“And if it is a shame that councilor Nori Machin has even considered such nonsense, it is even worse that the government group, with Mayor Oswaldo Betancort at the helm, supports such nonsense,” denounces the municipal spokesperson, who adds that “one thing is to propose a virtual carnival with some events that do not involve any risk, with which we would completely agree, and another very different thing is to promote this type of contact or interaction that is completely prohibited.”
“This type of action cannot be allowed and we understand that the Festivities councilor should not remain in the Teguise government for another minute,” says Álvarez.
