The CC-PNC group of the Council of Tenerife accuses the PSOE and Ciudadanos of lying about the expansion of the third lane of the TF-5 saying that the action did not have sufficient financing and recalls that the action had a budget of 40 million euros since 2019.
Nationalist spokesman Carlos Alonsopoints out that “the lie is as easy to dismantle as going to the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands and seeing the budget documents and dates”.
Thus, it states in a note that in January 2019 the TF-5 expansion project was submitted to public information “and there you can see” that the budget for the work was around 40 million euros.
“Is not true what Pedro Martín said that the Cabildo had budgeted 8 million euros for the performance because the project signed and sealed in November 2018 states that the cost of the work is around 40 million euros,” he highlights.
Alonso also explains that “the financing of the work was guaranteed through the Strategic Framework for Insular Development and the Canary Islands Development Fund (MEDI-FDCAN) and what has happened is that the PSOE and Ciudadanos paralyzed the work.”
What’s more, he continues, “the vice president himself, Enrique Arriaga, stated in September 2019 that the work would begin in 2020, something that did not happen and in February 2021 the vice president also announced that they would start that year, which they did not do either, and that they had a budget of 40 million euros and were co-financed by the Government of the Canary Islands”.
According to Alonso, “Arriaga denies Pedro Martín in terms of financing, just go to the newspaper library and check it out.”
In addition, adds Alonso, “It is not necessary to request the money from the Government of the Canary Islands for the TF-5 because the PSOE and Ciudadanos stopped executing 124 million euros in investments last yearthe Cabildo has money, but what is not there is political management”.
For the nationalist spokesman, this is “a flight forward by Pedro Martín, trying to confuse people and blame others for his inaction and lack of leadership, he has been unable to put in a single new project to improve traffic on the TF-5”.
In fact, he comments that Father Anchieta’s actions and the burying of the TF-24 are projects that left “facts” at the end of the last mandate as well as the expansion of the TF-5.
“What happens is that they have not known how to manage and that is what all of us from Tenerife are paying for,” he points out.
