The CC-PNC spokesman asks for “tranquility” with the judicial investigation and points out that “things were done well”
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 11 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Nationalist Group in the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carlos Alonso, said this Friday that his judicial investigation for prevarication and embezzlement of public funds in the ‘Geneto case’ “is not relevant” to decide his electoral candidacy for the corporation.
“I’m still the same, I think my political stage is over but the circumstances have an influence and there are things for me to continue and against. The party keeps insisting that I continue and present myself and I keep saying no, but let’s see , there is time to make that decision, we are not going to show the opponent our strategy either”, he commented in an interview granted to ‘Radio Club Tenerife and collected by Europa Press in which he also acknowledges that in CC there is “a lot of bench” available to lead a candidacy.
On the judicial investigation after the admission to processing of the complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office, he has asked for “tranquility” because “things were done well” and now “the only thing to do is clarify them” in court.
He has commented that the objective of the purchase of the land was to support the University of La Laguna in technological development given that they are located five minutes from the Anchieta Campus and were declared a “strategic area” by both the La Laguna City Council and by the university itself, together with the works of the Hogar Gomera and the construction of the Cibican in a global development strategy together with the Science and Technology Park.
Alonso has shown his “confidence in justice” and believes that everything “will be clarified”, highlighting his “full collaboration” with the investigation as he has provided a lot of information and documentation in previous phases.
He has said that the file “has no negative reports” and that the complaint, as a result of a report from the General Intervention of the Cabildo, is presented almost ten years later, and has reiterated that the intention of the operation was to “reinforce” the link of the ULL with the technology park through urban land and with a high level of buildability.
SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY
In fact, he has added that the Cabildo now has to develop the next phases in Geneto and that new infrastructures linked to technology and knowledge transfer be built.
He has pointed out that they were lots destined for commercial equipment and the Cabildo acquired them for research and technology transfer, something that goes “in line” with economic diversification and in supporting science.
Regarding the price paid–19.8 million and more than 500% above the cadastral value–, he has indicated that several appraisals were commissioned and “they all coincide” at an approximate value of 19 million, so “he will have to explain the appraiser” the figures, which in any case, were also endorsed by an independent expert hired for that matter.
Alonso has insisted that the sale operation “was done to help the University” and not so much CD Tenerife, which “sold at a loss” that plot, while he believes that the club would not have disappeared if the buy and sell.
The former president of the Cabildo is one of the nine investigated in the ‘Geneto case’, along with another former president, Ricardo Melchior, and the current Regional Security Councilor, Julio Pérez, who at the time of the events was the first deputy mayor of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and has underlined that the initiative was based on a motion presented by the Socialist Group in the Cabildo when it was in opposition.
SOUTH TRAIN
Regarding the southern train, he commented that it is an infrastructure that will solve the mobility problem in the area “clearly and without consuming more land”, underlining that it was CC who promoted the project and even, from the Cabildo de Tenerife technical assistance was given to Gran Canaria. “Now they go like a train and we like the bad guy’s horse,” he stressed.
In addition, he commented that “the worst thing” is that the project is stalled by a “tactical issue” given that the PSOE does not want to lose the support of Sí Podemos and is going to “sacrifice” a future project for the island to save the presidency by Peter Martin.
Alonso has indicated that the southern train is “very interesting” for the island and regrets that society “does not raise its voice” to defend it, and has called it “curious” that Podemos defends the project in Gran Canaria and does not do so in Tenerife. “It is an incoherent position that they have to explain”, he has indicated.
