The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León (Partido Popular), signed a decree last May where the reserve list was published to temporarily cover, on commission of services, seven vacancies for officer of the Local Police, a higher rank than a regular agent of the same force. Among the agents benefited by this temporary promotion was the mayor's brother.
According to sources from the town hall confirmed to La Voz, it was last weekend, in mid-October, when de León asked the General Secretariat of the City Council to rule on whether he should have abstained from signing that decree and if that signature could invalidate the procedure and affect his brother and the other six agents who obtained the temporary officer position.
This communication from Yonathan de León to the General Secretariat of the City Council occurs only one week after the Partido Popular of Lanzarote decided to remove Ángel Vázquez as CEO of the Centers of Art, Culture, and Tourism after it became public that he had participated in a selection process in which his son obtained a permanent dishwasher position in the public entity.
The decree signed by de León on May 14 put an end to a procedure initiated by himself as head of the Arrecife Local Police in December 2025. The objective of this procedure was to fill seven vacant positions to ensure the normal functioning of the service, which had already been diminished by having only four officer positions filled out of the eleven authorized.
The call included the temporary selection of seven Local Police agents to fill the officer vacancies within the force, in the Special Services sub-scale and the C1 subgroup. This category is endowed with a specific complement of 1,436 euros in fourteen payments.
Town hall sources have defended that the mayor "did not form part of the qualifying tribunal nor did he intervene in the call," and that he "did not sign the assessment minutes or the lists of admitted and excluded." Always according to their version, de León "was limited to signing the decree of the final appointment," where his brother already appeared as a beneficiary.
"Kinship does not eliminate the professional rights of the applicant, nor of all those who passed in that promotion," insist these same sources. At the same time, they point out that the mayor's brother passed a competitive examination 25 years ago and that being his brother "does not take away his right to participate in a call if he meets the requirements."
However, it will now be the General Secretariat of the City Council that rules whether the mayor should have abstained for reasons of kinship when signing the decree in which his brother was granted the vacancy on a service commission.
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