SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The mayors of the municipalities of San Miguel de Abona, El Rosario, Santiago del Teide, Arico, La Guancha and Santa Cruz have shown their rejection after being left out of the Grant Plan of the Cabildo de Tenerife, endowed with 16 million euros, and They have asked their president, Pedro Martín, to rectify and reverse a “huge hand-drawn distribution” that excludes seven out of every ten citizens of the island of Tenerife.
This has been stated in the course of a press conference in which some of the mayors present have exposed their position regarding the distribution decreed by the Cabildo of said nominative subsidies for the year 2022, in which 14 million euros, according to have denounced, they go to municipalities directed by mayors of the Socialist Party.
The mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez (CC), indicated that this act aims to give voice to what is a “clamor” for the way in which the Island Corporation has made a distribution of nominative subsidies “unprecedented” in the history of the Cabildo; where 16 million euros, almost 10 percent of the Cabildo’s total investment, have been distributed “absolutely by finger” and in a “biased and sectarian” way.
José Manuel Bermúdez stressed that if there is something that has historically characterized the Cabildo, it is the application of programs and plans that are “balanced” in the territory and from a political point of view. For this reason, he denounced that the “sectarian” style of applying the budget allocation to certain municipalities governed by the PSOE denotes an “absolutely sectarian” way of proceeding.
In the case of Santa Cruz, the mayor said that 16 million cannot be tolerated, “not a single euro” comes to the municipality, being the one with the largest population and also the capital of the island, capital of the island and coca-capital of the Canary Islands. For all these reasons, I ask the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, to “rethink”, act in a “balanced” manner and include all the island’s municipalities in this distribution according to their different projects.
For his part, the mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil (IR-Verdes), denounced that the Cabildo de Tenerife has left more than 17,000 residents of the municipality out of the distribution and affirmed that the “cacicadas” and “political revenges” did not they may be the usual practice of the president of the Island Corporation.
Consequently, he considered that Pedro Martín “has to rectify and be fair”, because “you cannot be president of the Cabildo for less than half of the population of Tenerife.” “If we have to return to the doors of the Cabildo to claim the rights of citizenship, there is no doubt that we will be there,” he warned.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro (PP), stressed that the island’s municipalities are “to collaborate” and help “proactively” to advance the island and remain a competitive destination. For this reason, he asked the Cabildo to take the “outstretched hand” of the mayors to be able to carry out a “consensual” budget and make it the “best” for the island.
The mayor of Arico, Sebastián Martín (Primero Arico), regretted that for the first time a “historical consensus” had been broken so that the distribution of nominative grants from the Cabildo was made in a “unanimous and consensual” manner among all city councils. He also condemned the fact that the Insular Corporation did not give an explanation about what the objective criterion of the distribution that has been carried out has been.
Likewise, he also reproached the Cabildo for having missed a “great opportunity” to be able to compensate the municipality of Arico for hosting the “largest landfill” on the island, for which it has been claiming “for years” for the corresponding financial compensation.
However, and as did the other mayors, Sebastián Martín asked the government group of the Cabildo to be receptive, rectify and not only distribute the money for one part.
