The Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has denounced a new episode of waste by the government of Oswaldo Betencort, after learning that the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism (CACT) have awarded a contract worth almost 500,000 euros in advisory and consulting services for the development of a gastronomic plan.
The socialist councilor Benjamín Perdomo has harshly questioned this hiring, considering that it reflects an absolute disconnection with the reality that the island is experiencing. “With the water emergency unresolved, an unprecedented housing crisis and overwhelmed public services, allocating half a million euros to a gastronomic plan is, at the very least, incomprehensible,” he said.
“Lanzarote requires serious management, aimed at solving the urgent challenges that affect citizens. However, we are witnessing a drift in which political priorities do not respond to the real needs of the island,” he added.
Perdomo recalled that it is not a novelty: “This is, with objective data, the most expensive government in the history of the Cabildo and the one that has spent the most on advisors. And far from correcting course, they continue to inflate public spending on external contracts that have nothing to do with the real priorities of Lanzarote.”
From the PSOE they denounce that the government model is based on permanent outsourcing, institutional marketing and the systematic neglect of the most urgent needs of citizens. “What our gastronomy needs is support for local producers, for those who work the land, for those who defend the zero kilometer product, not a half-million euro consultancy to come and discover what we already know,” concludes the councilor.
