The popular councilor affirms that “this staging showed, once again, the residual role of the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife in the strategic political decisions that compromise the future of the island “, since just after the announcement of this study, which still includes the possibility of Fonsalía, there were statements by the vice president of the Canary Islands Government, Román Rodríguez, “discarding the project of the port in Guía de Isora as an alternative to Los Cristianos”.
“Although we think that these statements by Román Rodríguez are related to the political flirtation he has with the mayor of Arona, repudiated by the Socialist Party, so that Nueva Canarias stands in Tenerife for the 2023 electionsThe truth is that in recent days we have witnessed contradictions between government partners – in the Government of the Canary Islands – about the future of the port of Fonsalía, the PSOE includes it in its study on the possibilities related to maritime transport of passengers, Nueva Canarias rejects it, while Casimiro Curbelo is committed to investing in Los Cristianos and not investing in Fonsalía, “he detailed in a note.
Regardless of which may be the best option, continues Fernández, “in the Popular Party we are clear that this fluctuation of opinions and internal wars does not benefit Tenerife at all, the port of Fonsalía has shown the brutal lack of coordination that exists between the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo de Tenerife, as well as the systematic scrutiny that Ángel Víctor Torres makes to the island president Pedro Martín, who does not finish exercising the leadership that Tenerife needs to set the priorities and the work agenda on our island.
Along these lines, he points out that Martín “has not even explained” to the parties that are within the island corporation the initiative of the ‘macro study’, which shows that the president “is not even capable of leading the island institution.”
“In whose hands is Tenerife?”
Fernández sees “incomprehensible” that Pedro Martin “Do not paint anything in the decisions on future passenger traffic between Tenerife and the green islands” and criticize that “so far, and taking into account that the island president has been unable to make a common front to defend the interests of Tenerife, it is unknown what is the criterion of this Cabildo with respect to the future of maritime traffic between islands “.
The popular councilor recalls that “Fonsalía has been the political flag of Pedro Martín for the last 25 yearsHowever, during the plenary session last July, and at the insistence of the opposition parties on the status of the environmental impact study of the future port of Fonsalía, both the president and the vice president acknowledged that they were unaware of it. ”
For Fernández, this is “very serious, considering that the EIS had expired since December 2018, highlighting the scant interest that Martín places on important issues for our island, which leads him to ask himself, in whose hands is Tenerife? “.
