The spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote and deputy secretary of the PSOE, Ariagona González, has appeared at a press conference to announce her group's assessment of the "first hundred days" of Oswaldo Betancort's government.
"It has been a hundred days of lies and occurrences," explained González, who has made an "exhaustive" review through these hundred days, highlighting the occasions in which Betancort "has lied" and has demonstrated "his absence of project."
The councilor began her speech recalling Oswaldo's "first lie," when he stated in the plenary session that the law "obliged him to raise his salary disproportionately." "The greatest demonstration of that lie is, precisely, that he suspended the increase to hold a popular consultation on his salary. If he was obliged by the law, how could he subject that increase to a popular consultation?" she asked.
"After the occurrence of the popular consultation, he ended up doing a deceptive survey, in which the lowest amount asked about was 30% higher than Loli Corujo's salary," the councilor pointed out.
In her appearance, González considered Oswaldo Betancort's lies regarding the "agreements with the third sector" to be "especially serious" and accused him of "not having sufficient rigor and seriousness" to recognize that "it was not true that these agreements could be formalized."
"The proof that he lied is that he tried to move forward with a transitional agreement that he also could not formalize, so he ended up with the occurrence of a supposed protocol without any legal or economic value. That supposed protocol has the same value as his famous notarial commitment to the citizens. None," said González, who recalled that Corujo's government's option was for the "direct management of the service."
The councilor was also forceful with the "systematic and irresponsible lies" regarding the Tahíche residence, since all the delays that the project has suffered "are the responsibility of Coalición Canarias."
It was Oswaldo Betancort, according to González, who "delayed the authorization for the start of the works for more than a year" and, when it was possible to start, it was verified that the land "did not meet the conditions to install a socio-sanitary equipment" to end with the fact that the company to which the construction of the residence was awarded was "unable to assume that commitment." But the worst, in the opinion of the councilor, is that "they also lie when they talk about their commitment to the third sector, because they handed over the management of the care for our elders to the construction company for 20 years."
According to the councilor, "also with the Tourist Centers, Oswaldo Betancort has made lying his political tool, because he has lied when, in a deceitful way, his government has reformulated the 2021 accounts to impute a fee without any legal basis in order to generate fictitious losses," and she has reproached him for trying to "hide the real news," which is that the Centers earned in 2022 "four and a half million euros," a "historical result" that Betancort has wanted to "hide from the citizens, trying to question the management of the Socialist Party."
"For a politician to lie is serious. For the president of the first institution of Lanzarote to do so is simply intolerable," she adds. "Betancort resorts to lies with unbearable ease. Furthermore, his constant improvisation, his recourse to occurrence, reveal a lack of project for the island that is very worrying, extremely worrying."
"It is not that he has lied and improvised in these hundred days, it is about the new occurrences and lies that await us throughout his presidency," concluded Ariagona González.
