Nightlife wants to reopen as soon as possible and threatens to go to the TSJC

The nightlife association Canarias de Noche has announced today (Friday) that if the Canary Islands Government does not show willingness to propose a date soon that they are allowed to reopen, they will go to court for help. In a statement, Canarias de Noche says that if there is no "clear and unequivocal signal that leads to the opening of their economic activity shortly, we will appeal to the courts before the violation of our rights is suffered, as other sectors have done already, and demand an end to the indolence and ruin that we have been subjected to for more than a year and a half.”

The association has made this announcement after hearing yesterday’s ruling of the TSJC that in a precautionary way rejects some of the measures adopted by the regional government on July 23rd, such as requiring vaccination certificates to access hospitality establishments.

In the opinion of this association, the Government of the Canary Islands has a “determination to throw the sector to the dogs and leave it under the protection of judicial decisions", and adds that "there will be no choice but to report the unfortunate situation that our colleagues are going through to the courts, after more than 16 months of closure and abandonment”.

Canarias de Noche describes the role of the Government in decision-making as "regrettable", and points out that it has supported it on numerous occasions with their decisions, and will continue to do so because many of the measures it has adopted they consider are necessary for the common good and to control the advance of the pandemic.

But, "with the judicial blows week after week that continue to accumulate, the only thing that shows is the ineffectiveness and clumsiness of an autonomous government that leaves the responsibility to business owners, who are often plunged into legal limbo."

Something that, in their opinion, is not providing them with the legal guarantees that cover many of the measures that are adopted, “assuming that the problem of contagions does not reside in the activity of our premises, but in a more complex casuistry, that they have not known how to regulate adequately”.