The spokesperson for Vox in the Arrecife City Council, Eugenio Hernández, believes that the current mayor of the capital of Lanzarote, Yonathan de León, must have “signed” for his organization "without telling anyone." Thus, the far-right party has indicated that "otherwise the latest statements he made in the Puerto Naos area, taking advantage of the presentation of a new Maritime Rescue vessel, cannot be explained."
In these statements, the popular mayor pointed out the need for the Government of the socialist Pedro Sánchez "instead of spending hundreds of millions of euros on investments of all kinds in Morocco, to create reception centers there to be able to have the thousands of unaccompanied minors who are currently under the tutelage of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands."
“The curious thing about the matter is that the current mayor of Arrecife seems to be going completely rogue with respect to his party, the Popular Party (PP). I don't know if it is due to the internal mess they have due to their confrontation with the island president or the fact that he is trying to get closer to our political party, which I don't think is bad," Hernández said in a statement.
In Vox, far from what is said, "it is accepted that people rectify and really understand what their discourse is, what is really said about such serious issues as illegal immigration,” said Eugenio Hernández. “But it is evident that this way of presenting the current situation" of irregular immigration "that affects all the islands, especially Lanzarote and El Hierro, which have become the base port of the mafias that traffic human beings on the Atlantic Route, "is not from his party, which constantly plays at ambiguity, navigating between the forcefulness with which the problem must be faced and the do-gooding of those who are capable of putting a candle to God and another to the devil, always thinking about theoretical electoral gains," he added.
For the municipal spokesperson, it is of an “atrocious cynicism” to now put himself "at the forefront of postulates that have never been defended, understanding, because it must be that they have seen it in the polls, that people, the citizens of Arrecife in particular, want a serious and rigorous response" with respect to the people who arrive on the Canary coasts through precarious boats, "not what has been done until now, which has been nothing more than an exercise in beating around the bush to try not to get out of line of what is determined as politically correct."
“Both my colleague Enrique Barrios and I have had to endure all kinds of comments when it has occurred to us to address the problem" of immigration in an irregular administrative situation with initiatives in the municipal Plenary. "We have not seen in any case words of encouragement or understanding from the mayor of Arrecife, who now, curiously, coincides with what we and our political organization have always proposed,” Hernández stressed.
Thus, he recalled that Vox, in fact, presented a motion in the capital of Lanzarote for solutions to be provided that could be sent to other higher administrations so that it is understood that "the situation of immigrants cannot continue, demanding, for example, the transfer of people who enter the Canary Islands illegally to their countries of origin or to Brussels."
The far-right party has added that “we recall in the plenary session, and they didn't even pay attention to us and looked at us as if we were the xenophobes or racists on duty, that Spain, like the rest of Europe, is suffering an unprecedented immigration invasion that is seriously jeopardizing its future, with disastrous consequences for the coexistence, security and prosperity of all Spaniards. This immigration invasion is promoted by an elite in Brussels that, instead of betting on promoting the birth rate and supporting Spanish families and workers, has opted for a model of uncontrolled immigration that promotes the arrival of millions of illegal immigrants and tries to impose a dissolving model of multicultural society,” added Hernández.
Vox, maintaining in Arrecife the arguments of the national leadership of his party, insisted that "in Spain the situation has exceeded any possible limit. The massive arrival of illegal immigrants has been constant in recent years, encouraged and subsidized directly by governments of one sign and another,” the spokesperson insisted.
Finally, the party chaired by Santiago Abascal, has pointed out the "irresponsibility on the part of the PSOE and the PP in supporting and encouraging" irregular immigration, and in not taking into account Vox's initiatives in the plenary sessions. "It has direct consequences on the lives of the inhabitants of the island, despite the fact that their leaders and spokespersons deny it," they continued.
“It is therefore difficult to see a leader of the Popular Party now speaking in the same terms that his colleagues later criticize only to try to look good with a part of his electorate," Hernández said. "To date, we are the only ones who have warned of the nonsense of this immigration model, despite the insults and demagoguery of political parties, subsidized media and associations that, when they are not complicit in the drama that immigration entails in itself, see the dramatic figures of deaths at sea, look the other way and refuse to face the reality and the consequences of their decisions,” his municipal spokesperson asserted.
“If the mayor decides to open his eyes and be brave when explaining what is obvious, that Morocco must take charge of its minors and the adults who also arrive here illegally, welcome. Now, if he does it only to try to win a handful of votes by deviating from what his party determines, it is neither understood nor can it be shared,” Hernández concluded.
