The PSOE of Arrecife has criticized the attitude of the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, regarding the moment he has chosen to inaugurate the Christmas lights in the city center. "Yonathan de León waited to inaugurate the Christmas lights until the city's shops were closed."
"In the middle of Black Friday, the logical thing to do was to turn on the Christmas lights either on Thursday, November 23, anticipating the Friday campaign, or even turn them on on Friday around seven in the afternoon as part of an attraction that aims to attract visitors to the center," said the PSOE councilor in Arrecife, Cristina Duque. "Instead of that, the mayor waited for the shops to be closed on Saturday night to inaugurate the lights, yes, with a lot of photos of himself as the architect of the nonsense."
Duque added that "on Friday he starts an asphalting that blocks access to the city, schedules the verification of the '44 Rallye Orvecame-Isla de Lanzarote' in the medulla, moving citizens away from the center, and delays the turning on of lights until Saturday night when the shops are closed, you can't be more incompetent."
"Yonathan de León has set out to ruin the city center, and he will surely achieve it in the rest of the legislature. One of the last acts has been the absurdity of choosing the date for the Christmas lights to be turned on in Arrecife," the councilor highlighted.
"The enemy of traditional commerce"
Cristina Duque explains the "seriousness" of the mayor's actions. "What he has done to the city's merchants in the middle of Black Friday is grounds for resignation, first he starts an asphalting plan on the same Friday, without prior notice. He blocks the few available entrances to the city and its surroundings. Then he blocks the parking lots. On Friday night, the verification of the '44 Rallye Orvecame- Isla de Lanzarote' takes place, which again prevents entry into the city, and the show takes place in front of a large shopping center, in the middle of the main avenue. And, finally, he turns on the lights on Saturday night when there are no shops open. You can't be so incompetent."
"De León is the enemy of commerce, willing to ruin the local merchants of the city. He inherited a lot of works from the previous legislature, a city project that Loli Corujo from the Cabildo of Lanzarote and Astrid Pérez from Arrecife had designed. These works only had to be scheduled, informing the citizens of each cut. If a street was closed, it was reported and other alternative routes were opened. But instead of that, he has plunged the city into chaos, scaring away all the citizens of the capital and preventing anyone from coming to visit it. Without demanding that companies finish in reasonable time. And flooding the city with plagues of cockroaches and rats that he refuses to fumigate."
From the PSOE we are "very concerned" with the drift of a "true nonsense" in the management of the municipality. "The city cannot be in the hands of a kind of selfie mayor, without managing the minimum," Duque concludes.