The “sterile” debate to delay construction of the port of Fonsalía, in Guía de Isora, It is a “preconceived strategy” to stop the present and future potential of Tenerife and the three green islands, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma, said this Thursday the president of the Provincial Federation of Construction Entities (Fepeco), Óscar Izquierdo, who assures that with this debate he wants “weaken” Tenerife to “elevate” Gran Canaria in regional leadership.
Óscar Izquierdo criticizes the intention of the “noistas and some politicians, more interested in maintaining the armchair than in defending the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife“, to open” an eternal, Machiavellian, demagogic, insubstantial debate and without any intention of finding an agreement “, with the sole purpose of” passing time in Byzantine discussions. ”
In this way, continues the president of Fepeco, all the necessary procedures to complete the port of Fonsalía are extended “sine die, which, from the beginning, has been boycotted by an ideological and sectarian minority, by the way, very well embedded in the services administrative officials that have to make the respective reports and that do not have any democratic legitimacy, in addition to not representing the vast majority of Tenerife society and the three green islands, who do want the infrastructures and, specifically, the aforementioned port. ”
Óscar Izquierdo says that Fepeco has always defended “calm, serious and professional discussion, but with expiration time, to seek and at the same time find viable and consensual solutions.”
He adds that “it is even good that it is political, but leaving out demagoguery or populism, which do not lead to anything, but precisely to wear and tear, boredom and citizen rejection, for enclosing the problems and works to be carried out, which is precisely the typical strategy of nonists and populist politicians “.
According to the president of Fepeco, you have to come together “not to be together out of obligation, but to do something together, knowing that no one has the absolute truth about the matter and that others also tend to get something right, so comparison is appropriate. of the results of the different existing or possible studies to reach a great strategic agreement for Tenerife “.
An agreement “that enables the construction of the infrastructures that the island demands and needs, of course, with the minimum effect on the territory and on the environment, without being in a permanent discussion that paralyzes it, impoverishes it and relegates it to becoming on a smaller island, which Fepeco rejects and prompts us to continue fighting harder to regain the dignity of Tenerife and the primary position that corresponds to it in the autonomous context “.
Oscar Izquierdo emphasizes that “absolutely any business initiative, investment or execution of public works cannot be discussed, as a strategic method so that nothing is started”.
In his opinion, this is what has happened in recent decades and continues to happen today in Tenerife, “where there is much talk and little execution.”
He believes that the Government of the Canary Islands “has to demonstrate that it governs with command, for everyone equally and as it does very well in the other islands, it has to impose its legitimate and democratic authority, over and above populist or electoralist pressures, implementing those public works and infrastructures, yes, with all the appropriate environmental guarantees, which serve as a basis for the economic growth and social development of Tenerife, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma “.
What cannot be allowed, according to Óscar Izquierdo, “is that, for fear of facing a denialist, unruly and paralyzing minority, the execution of what is a priority, demanded and necessary for economic growth, social development and the sustainability of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, as are its essential infrastructures “.
