The People’s Party (PP) and the Forum of Friends of the South of Tenerife (FAST) agree on the need to claim that the south train is included in the Railway Network of General Interest (RFIG), so that “we can access European funds to finance this infrastructure, regardless of when it is executed,” says the president of the conservative party on the island, Emilio Navarro.
Navarro held a meeting with the president of FAST, businessman José Fernando Cabrera, along with other representatives of the group and Manuel Fernández, PP councilor in the Cabildo. The political leader conveyed at this meeting that “from the Popular Party we always reach out a hand in all matters that benefit the general interest of the Island.”
With this premise, he told the businessmen of the Forum of Friends of the South of Tenerife that the Plenary Session of the Island Corporation will address, in the ordinary session that will be held on Friday, the 25th, an initiative of the PP through which it is formulated “that This infrastructure is included in the RFIG, since we understand the South train as an opportunity to invest in an infrastructure that can contribute to significantly improve mobility on our Island, avoiding the constant collapses that Tenerife residents suffer daily today.
The popular island president, Emilio Navarro, expects support for the PP proposal
On this issue, the island councilor Manuel Fernández pointed out that “we have to make an effort to go hand in hand with Gran Canaria, where this initiative has been unanimously approved by all the political groups represented in its Cabildo, so that both Islands have the same possibilities of accessing that financing.
Express the support of the Plenary Session of the Cabildo for the Southern train project, urge the central government to include it in the General Interest Railway Network (RFIG) and establish “a route map for guided transport on the Island”, with the maximum possible consensus, are the agreements proposed by the PP.
It should be noted that the Vice President and Councilor for Roads of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Enrique Arriaga, withdrew from the agenda the motion in which he requested the inclusion of the southern train project in the RFIG due to the threats of Sí Podemos Canarias to break their agreement of government with the PSOE and Cs. That happened in the ordinary session of last January, held on the 28th. Days later, in the Congress of Deputies, the spokesman for Citizen Transport, Juan Ignacio López-Bas, proposed a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) to promote a railway network in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, in order to form a “real alternative to road transport” and “to guarantee sufficient financing” for the “construction and commissioning of the Gran Canaria railway and the South of Tenerife».
