The organization secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition in Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, denounced yesterday the “abandonment” and “lack of investment” of the regional government on the island, which translates into “loss of competitiveness and development”, “more unemployment and precariousness”. Dávila assures that “the loss of political weight and the economic slowdown of Tenerife in these years of the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres is evident.”
And he adds: «the island cannot continue to pay for the weakness of the regional and Tenerife PSOE; the first submissive to Madrid and the second, weakened by internal struggles and unable to defend the needs of Tenerife before his party and the regional government.
The nationalist leader points out that “if there are two words that define and summarize what these more than two years of the Pacto de las Flores have meant, they are laziness and inattention, as evidenced by the stoppage of works, the forgetting of projects, the energy zeros and the loss of economic and institutional weight of the island ”.
Dávila states that “the collapse” of transport infrastructures such as the port of Los Cristianos or the expansion of the Tenerife South airport are “two clear examples of the lack of interest” of the regional executive, which “is leaving Tenerife and its citizens ». And he criticizes that in the first six months of 2021 the execution of “real investments” by the Canarian executive “only reaches 15%”, 197 million out of almost 1,400 budgeted, when it is “a crucial year” to “stop the destruction of employment ».
In addition to the “inability to manage” the government of Ángel Víctor Torres, the nationalist leader charges against “the lack of leadership” of the Cabildo de Tenerife, “the internal fights of the PSOE and in the Left Pact”, and the “ninguneo of Madrid”. All this cocktail is “condemning” the people of Tenerife “to precariousness and unemployment,” according to Dávila.
He uses the case of the port of Los Cristianos as “a clear example of the lack of interest and solutions” of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Tenerife, which “all they do is throw things at their heads without giving answers.”