The president of the provincial construction association Fepeco, Óscar Izquierdo, denounced this Monday that Nueva Canarias (NC) “vetoes” Tenerife by being against the port of Fonsalía.
These statements come after the NC national executive has ratified its ‘no’ to the port of Fonsalía, planned in the south of Tenerife, estimating that this project, with an expired impact statement and that it dedicates 80% of its surface to pleasure boats and shops, it does not solve the traffic jams between the port of Los Cristianos and the TF-1.
Izquierdo, in a statement, has admitted that he is not surprised that Román Rodríguez, vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands and leader of NC, is against the port of Fonsalía because “it falls within its disruptive strategy, to stop or slow down economic growth ”.
According to Izquierdo, Román Rodríguez is not interested in the potentiality and leadership that Tenerife may have in the future, “when it enjoys the appropriate road and airport infrastructures” that “at the moment they are trying to veto it.”
In his opinion, Rodríguez should learn from the president of the Tenerife Council, Pedro Martín, and the Minister of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, who have put “sanity, good sense, high-mindedness and public service above the demagoguery, electoralism and populism ”.
“When from Fepeco, we defend Tenerife, with accurate and true reasoning, we are immediately maliciously described as insularists, but we must remind those totalitarian censors that there is also insularism, disguised as regionalism, of which the leader of Nueva Canarias he is one of its highest representatives ”, the Fepeco president warned in the note.
For Fepeco, the only objective of NC is to “magnify” Gran Canaria, where the political party it represents has its fishing ground for votes, which are systematically denied in Tenerife, where its representation is testimonial.
What Rodríguez calls “rejection of citizenship” is not true, because the vast majority of Tenerife society and the three green islands, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma, want the port of Fonsalía, Izquierdo has defended.
“Only an ideological minority, representative of the totalitarian single thought, composed and remotely controlled by active officials, on leave or retired, are those who are opposed,” he added.
