The first mayor says in plenary that “the opposition does a disservice to local businesses when they repeat in the media that we are an unsafe municipality.”
The mayor of Santa Lucía de Tirajana Francisco García announced in the plenary session this Thursday that he has called a meeting of the municipality's Security Board for next Friday, December 3 "to study the means of the state security forces with which We are going to count it in the next Christmas campaign.” The first mayor stated that "yesterday we were going to have a meeting with the Government Delegate that we had requested several days ago, but Mr. Pestana is in La Palma and could not leave the island." García pointed out that "on Monday of this week I met with the lieutenant and captain of the Civil Guard to talk about the Christmas security campaign that will begin to be developed shortly, and we do not agree with the media that announced to us , because they seem insufficient to us.”
In a response to the spokesperson for the Santa Lucía de Tirajana Neighborhood Association, Manuel Hernández, in the plenary session this Thursday, the mayor recalled that “We are talking about the third most important municipality on this island due to its population, but in addition to the 78.000 inhabitants, If we add the residents of the entire Southeast Commonwealth, there are actually 150.000 people, so we understand that the means of the civil guard in our municipal area are insufficient and since we did not agree with what they proposed for the Christmas campaign "Yesterday I called a Security Meeting, this meeting was already communicated to the Government Delegation."
The mayor added that "When we talk about security it is not only a concern of the municipal government, it is also a concern of the different social agents of the municipality, such as businessmen, that is why Don Manuel I do tell you that you, the opposition, are doing a disservice." to the commerce of Santa Lucía de Tirajana when they are constantly and continuously in the media saying that our municipality is unsafe.” “This means that those who want to come to our city to spend their economic resources do not do so, but do not worry because citizen security is a priority of this Government Group and, personally, of the person speaking to you,” concluded Francisco García.