And this is despite the fact that the hotel employers' association of Las Palmas did not lift a finger with the media, neither in the south nor in Las Palmas. The demonstration against tourism that took place this Sunday in the south of Gran Canaria was a failure because the civil servants and public employees who took thousands of people out onto the streets on April 20 did not go to their own call. The official figures from the TV channels pointed to "thousands" when in reality they could be talking about "hundreds". 90% of those attending were public employees, former voters of the purple party, romantics who were left without electoral coverage. It is not known whether the presence of the ikurriña has to do with the existence of Basque investments in the south of Gran Canaria.
The Gran Canaria Council official, Eugenio Reyes, in his capacity as spokesman for the Ben Magec environmental association, said that "it is regrettable that after six months there has been no official contact nor has an observatory or space been created for civil society to listen to the citizens, who have concrete proposals." In Tenerife, the origin of the problem of the mobilizations that have affected the south of Gran Canaria, the promoters said that some 2.000 people were those who took part in the route in Playa de Las Américas.
According to 'Canarias tiene un límites', after the demonstrations on April 20, the institutions created a 'table of experts' to "calm them down" although they qualified that the change must come "from the hand of the people who fight in the streets and from their organization and not from empty pacts promoted by those responsible for the collapse." "The tourist areas are the symbol of the abuse of our resources and of the speculation that is destroying our territory. Each hotel, each road, each golf course is a wound to our future and a threat to those of us who defend a sustainable and fair Canary Islands," said the protesters in Maspalomas.
