The vice president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, and counselor of the Roads, Mobility, Innovation and Culture Area, Enrique Arriaga (Citizens), has withdrawn the motion he presented to debate in the plenary session of the corporation this Friday to promote the train construction project south of the island. However, given the “lack of consensus”, Arriaga has chosen to withdraw it.
The PSOE, which holds the presidency in the Cabildo, has supported the motion, but not Sí Podemos Canarias, which, although it is not part of the Government, supports the pact between socialists and Cs with its votes. María José Belda, counselor of Sí Podemos, had previously indicated that supporting this “ultra-developmentalist macroproject that implies destroying our fragile territory, with kilometers of expropriations, works and inconvenience for years, without previously betting on improving the bus service and other non-invasive measures “It was to cross one of the “red lines” of the government agreement reached so that the motion of censure that ousted the Canary Coalition from the corporation would prosper. If it went ahead this Friday and the plan was promoted, the pact would be broken.
For their part, the PP and the Canarian Coalition have shown their support for the initiative and have accused Yes We Can of “threatening” the Cabildo, to which the party has responded that what it has done has been “value the agreements programmatic” signed with PSOE and Cs.
Arriaga has stated that, since it is such an important project for the island (something on which all the groups have agreed), it was to be expected that it would have the full support of the plenary session, and that, since this has not been the case, it was better remove it. In addition, the PSOE had clarified that, although it supports the project, “it is not a priority” at this time, in the midst of the crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic.
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