I maintain that the strike in the Tourist Centers is nothing more than a pretext for the political destabilization of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, and the content of the extraordinary plenary session requested by the opposition constitutes clear proof of this assertion as it clearly portrays these intentions, going far beyond the problem of the strike in the Public Business and Local Entity - Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism (CACT).
Perhaps it is not sufficient proof of the political nature of the strike that Andrés Barreto, the messiah of the Works Council who negotiated the collective agreement and whom we can hear recorded interpreting it in the same sense as the company's management, the same one who only months after negotiating it filed hundreds of individual lawsuits for his own benefit, is a former councilor of Arrecife for Citizen Alternative even integrated in Somos, but closer to PODEMOS.
Perhaps it is also not sufficient proof that the president of the Works Council is the spouse of the representative of Somos in the Board of Directors of the CACT, which is why, by the way, she should be subject to a cause of abstention to vote, both in the board of directors and in the plenary session of the Cabildo, where she is a councilor for Somos, coming from Citizen Alternative like the previous one and completely aligned with the political formation PODEMOS of Carlos Meca, for more signs.
Perhaps it is also not sufficient proof that the opposition - which almost unanimously supported the theses of the management in the Board of Directors of the CACT with only one abstention from the groups - has finally changed its mind to align itself with the illegal proposal of the Strike Committee, which is, in any case, contrary to what was agreed. And they have done so not only against the management of the CACT, but against the proposal of the Labor Tribunal of the Canary Islands that acted as mediator in the conflict.
It is possible that no one is convinced by the fact that Carlos Espino, the former general secretary of the PSOE in Lanzarote (until last Thursday a government partner in the first island corporation, although he had already been exercising his usual opposition from the government) and recognized advisor to the current party leadership, is moving by land, sea and air to ensure that before the possible opening of his oral trial –this one for corruption and embezzlement of public funds and that may end with his bones in jail– there is another government in the Cabildo, or at least in the Council of the CACT that denounced him, to control the indictment that the Public Business and Local Entity will have to make.
And surely it is not enough proof the confession, which obviously they do not admit in public, of the socialist councilors and their own general secretary that in the next congress of the PSOE many workers of the Tourist Centers vote and need their support. At the expense of the general interest of the citizens of Lanzarote, I add.
But if none of this were enough, you only have to read the content of the extraordinary plenary session convened supposedly to make a proposal to unblock the strike, to certify the impudence with which they portray the eminently political nature of this strike and I explain. Among the points on the agenda of the plenary session, in addition to adopting the proposal of the Strike Committee abandoning the support they had already given to the management, the political groups of the opposition –which probably should not yet have the numbers for a motion of censure– intend to take advantage of the plenary session to try to wrest control of the Board of Directors of the public entity that manages the Tourist Centers from the government. And they do so through a far-fetched political-legal plumbing operation devised in some law firm, proposing a study commission controlled by the plenary session and that would have to impose through it a modification of the statutes of the EPEL that allows said political objective. A kind of disguised motion of censure with that sole intention that has absolutely nothing to do with the strike in the CACT.
All the companies, entities and autonomous bodies of a public administration, are controlled by the same government of the administration to which they belong because the opposite would be absurd, grotesque and incoherent, and when a government is in minority there is a democratic instrument to change it and take, therefore, control of the autonomous bodies, companies or public entities that depend on it.
There is no right to have caused irreparable damage to Lanzarote in the broadest sense, especially to the workers of the CACT themselves, who are mostly the main victims of this strike to the extent that, if the Works Council is so sure that there is an unfulfilled judicial sentence, they only had to wait for justice to order its execution as guarantor of its sentences, instead of leading the staff to this indefinite 24-hour strike completely free of charge. It has been a tremendous irresponsibility that they have committed by using this strike with the political intentionality that has been faithfully portrayed in the same content of the extraordinary plenary session that they have convened. Fortunately, sanity has prevailed and the strike has been called off yesterday, so I congratulate the staff and the entire tourism sector, but the damage has already been done and the society of Lanzarote must take good note of what is being the role of some and others in this war of thrones in which some have not hesitated to do all the damage that is necessary to the island they claim to defend, in order to achieve their political objectives.
Pedro M. San Ginés Gutiérrez , president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote