The PSOE accuses Betancort of blocking the shuttle buses in Timanfaya and of now recognizing it as a solution.

The PSOE has accused the government of Oswaldo Betancort of "making the island lose three years" in the management of access to Timanfaya to "end up recognizing now that the solution involves leaving vehicles outside the National Park and accessing via shuttle buses", as defended by the previous socialist government under the Presidency of María Dolores Corujo.

The socialist counselor and former head of the CACT, Benjamín Perdomo, has thus valued the statements of the counselor of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, Mariano Zapata, who has publicly defended that the future of the National Park involves removing cars from the enclosure and establishing a public transport system with external parking areas.

“After three years of denying, despising or shelving this proposal, now it turns out that the Government understands that the PSOE was right. The problem is that Lanzarote has lost three years in a natural space that has collapsed with vehicles day after day and that cannot wait any longer,” Perdomo has stated.

Perdomo especially criticized that the CEO of the Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism, Ángel Vázquez, "has spent a good part of the legislature insisting that he would not implement a shuttle model and defending, instead, a supposed solution based on the online sale of tickets that never arrived and that did not solve the problem either”.

“For three years they told us that the shuttles were not the solution, that the solution was an online platform, that they were going to manage visits and that they had a plan. Three years later, the queues continue, the pressure on Timanfaya persists, and the Government has ended up accepting the proposal that the PSOE had already put forward,” he added.

“This Government is proving very expensive for Lanzarote”

Benjamín Perdomo assured that this episode once again demonstrates "the inability of Oswaldo Betancort's Government to give continuity to useful projects simply because they came from the PSOE".

“This Government is proving very expensive for Lanzarote. Expensive in lost time, expensive in opportunities, and expensive for the image of one of the most important natural spaces in the Canary Islands. They arrived promising immediate solutions, they paralyzed what was already underway, and now, three years later, they are beginning to accept that the correct path was the one already laid out,” he stressed.

“We celebrate that they finally recognize that the proposal was correct, but we deeply regret the lost time. In politics, rectifying is good; making an island lose three years due to sectarianism is irresponsible,” he concluded.