The spokeswoman for the Popular Party in the Cabildo, Zaida González, will ask this week in the Plenary Commission on Employment and Socioeconomic Development about the result of the Consumer Bonds campaign, promoted with the “supposed” objective of “helping to boost commercial activity in the field of the business fabric, especially focused on the Christmas season and sales».
González recalls that “the initiative was endowed with 385,000 euros, managed by Fifede, and the forecast was to issue more than 32,000 vouchers among local business and hospitality consumers, once the campaign was completed, which ended on January 16, and according to the data from the Consumption Bonds page enabled by the Cabildo, “we find that only 155 companies, of the almost 12,000 related to the commerce and hospitality sector in Tenerife, have participated in this campaign,” says Zaida González, who He adds: “A resounding failure, whose responsibility lies with the insular institution.”
González assures that “it is not understandable that in the context of an unprecedented economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the public administration puts in place tools to promote consumption that turn out to be useless.”
The spokeswoman for the popular in the Cabildo highlights that “this campaign has had a certain impact in some municipalities”, such as Los Realejos (26 adhered companies) and Candelaria (18) “because the City Councils have been involved, but not because the Cabildo has acted efficiently in promoting and disseminating”.
González emphasizes that “the economic situation requires the effort to develop effective actions, instead of devoting it to designing headlines behind which there is only smoke as in the Consumer Bonds campaign or in other initiatives, in the case of direct aid to small businesses and the self-employed, who took more than a year to reach the beneficiaries.
“The inefficiency in the management of public resources -concludes the PP spokesperson- leads many self-employed workers and businessmen to definitive closure when they generate 90% of the jobs”.
