The spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, denounced during the last island plenary session held on Tuesday morning "the falsehoods spread" by the president Oswaldo Betancort in a recent interview, in which he stated that he had asked the King of Spain not to cede the Residence of La Mareta to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and also assured that Sánchez “has not returned to spend the summer in Lanzarote since he has been president of the Cabildo”.
During the plenary session, the spokesperson for the Socialist Group, Ariagona González, asked Betancort a direct question to clarify whether he ratified these statements or, on the contrary, acknowledged that they were not true. The question was based on public and well-known facts: President Pedro Sánchez has been in Lanzarote at least twice since Betancort assumed the presidency of the Cabildo, "thus denying Betancort's own words", according to the PSOE in a statement.
“The president of the Cabildo has deliberately lied to the media and the public. Not only has he used his position to launch a political attack unbecoming of the head of an institution such as the Cabildo, but he has also done so by being untruthful”, said the spokesperson for the Socialist Group after the plenary session.
Likewise, the spokesperson denied another of Betancort's hoaxes, who claimed that while Pedro Sánchez was in La Mareta, that beach was the entry point for boats and canoes. “No boat has arrived at that beach while Pedro Sánchez was staying there. It's false”, González sentenced.
For the socialists, this episode is just another example of the politics of spectacle practiced by Oswaldo Betancort: a lot of noise, a lot of smoke screens and zero solutions to the island's real problems, such as the water crisis, the housing emergency or tourist saturation.
“Lanzarote does not need a president obsessed with cameras and headlines, but one who is up to the task, who tells the truth and rolls up his sleeves once and for all to face the real problems of this island”, concludes González.
