The Popular Party will propose, through a motion, that the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa initiate the procedure to "recover the La Santa Hostel as a cultural and recreational facility so that it can offer the recreational service for which it was created."
"As of today, the hostel continues to function as a facility for the reception of unaccompanied foreign minors who arrive on our coasts and are under the tutelage of the Government of the Canary Islands," the popular representatives point out.
The PP councilor, Jacobo Medina, points out that "the time has come for the Cabildo to raise with the Government of the Canary Islands the need to have permanent facilities for the care of immigrant minors on the island and that the La Santa space can return to function as a hostel and develop its own activity."
"It has been five years since the humanitarian emergency was declared in 2018 and the hostel had to be used to accommodate the minors, but the competent administrations have had more than enough time to build or enable a specific center for their care and attention," they point out from the PP.
Jacobo Medina emphasizes that "the municipality of Tinajo has always been supportive" of the needs that have arisen over the years in terms of migration, but "a point has been reached where the residents already feel that the situation has become normalized and the authorities have forgotten that this space was temporary and that they are actually occupying a hostel that had other functions that also need to be maintained and defended."
"It cannot be that the residents of Tinajo, and the island in general, have to give up these facilities due to the negligence of the Government of the Canary Islands, which, with the complicity of the Cabildo, has not been able in these five years to plan and enable its own space to care for the minors," denounces the councilor and PP candidate for the presidency of the corporation, who believes that the silence maintained by the island government in relation to the needs derived from the migratory phenomenon is seriously harming the municipality of Tinajo and the island as a whole.