The Lanzarote socialists believe that "the best option is for the Cabildo to provide the appropriate land to build the center", which is why the socialist deputy of Lanzarote, Olivia Cedrés, has proposed that "the Government request the Lanzarote Cabildo to cede suitable land to build a Foreigner Internment Center (CIE) on the island." This proposal, formulated as an amendment to a Non-Law Proposal presented by the Popular Party, "seeks to solve the problem of the lack of land for a center of these characteristics and saves the refusal of the neighbors for the aforementioned facility to be built in the vicinity of the town of Güime".
However, in the opinion of the socialist, Andrés Stinga, "if the PP were really interested in supporting the refusal of the inhabitants of Güime to host the shelter in their payment, they would have adopted the proposal to involve the Cabildo in a problem that is of an insular scope." For this reason, the PSC-PSOE group in San Bartolomé has described Coalición Canaria and the Popular Party as "lacking solidarity" and "electoralist", because "the popular ones limited themselves to asking for the cession of the Polvorín, completely ignoring the painful oblivion and the lack of solidarity that undocumented immigrants who arrive on our coasts in search of a future for themselves and their families have suffered".
In addition, the socialists accuse the PP of having made an "exhibition of total absence of humanity" in Congress, and recall that during the government of José María Aznar, "foreigners in an irregular situation were crammed into rooms at the Lanzarote airport, in conditions as undignified as they were outrageous", for which they insist on the "urgent need to build a Foreigner Internment Center".
A very different position from the one held by the Popular Party, which considers that "in the Canary Islands there are internment centers equipped with all the infrastructures" and that therefore they do not consider it necessary to build one in Lanzarote. Cándido Reguera, has declared to La Voz that "it is necessary to make a small reception center to treat the people who arrive in Lanzarote with dignity, until their documentation is processed and then they have to go to an internment center on another island". Regarding "that first reception center" that he proposes, Reguera maintains that "it should be in the space that AENA has at the airport, because it does not harm the development of the airport at all". Something that the socialists consider an "irresponsibility" given that in their opinion, "the island's tourist economy depends directly on the airport enclosure and that with the current revision of the Airport's Master Plan", in which the Cabildo de Lanzarote actively participates, "the current elements of the area, such as the terminal, the runways and the air base, are not yet defined".
Thus, the popular deputy stated that "you cannot have an internment center in all places, wasting resources on all the islands when there are really a series of important needs that must be covered, and if there are centers that can do that task, it does not make sense for us to make a center on all the islands".
In addition to being blunt against the construction of a center of these characteristics, Reguera has also especially criticized the chosen location, in the Polvorín de Güime, alleging that the Island Plan, which in its day also had the favorable vote of the Socialist Party, "recognizes that space as a jable passage zone and therefore does not allow the construction of any type of buildings, neither public nor private".
