“The blockade and immobility of Coasts” makes it impossible to solve serious problems for Candelaria, such as the protection of the coastline from San Blas to La Arena street from adverse marine phenomena, which includes the safety of buildings on Obispo Pérez Cáceres street; the closure of the rotating car park located in front of the Town Hall and the closure of the municipal swimming pool. For this reason, the Canary Coalition (CC) demands from the Central Government’s General Directorate for Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea “urgent and immediate solutions that manage to unblock” these issues. They also demand the intervention of the Canarian Government.
The regional deputy and secretary of the Organization of Tenerife nationalists, Rosa Dávila; and the spokesperson in Candelaria, Ángela Cruz, highlight that these situations make clear “the null political weight that the mayor, Mari Brito, has in her party, despite presiding over Fecam, having a position in Femp and being a member of the Federal Committee of the PSOE”. Dávila added: “It is the same lack of leadership as that of his regional chief, Ángel Víctor Torres, before his party in Madrid when demanding transfers from the State in terms of costs.”
Ángela Cruz explained that the inhabitants of the affected homes on Calle La Arena, where the strong waves undermined part of their foundations, “feel abandoned by the City Council in the face of Costas’ attitude, by not supporting them in the search for solutions.” She explains that Costas urged to carry out a work that paralyzed when the neighbor started it, who took 10 months to grant the authorization.
Costas did not renew the municipal concession for the rotating car park, after an investment of 300,000 euros for its improvement by the Consistory. The purpose, moreover, is to recover the public domain area to expand the maritime front. “It would mean the disappearance of that parking area in the town, one of the most notorious deficiencies that the municipality presents.”
As for the municipal swimming pool, it has been closed for more than two years and Costas does not respond to the allegations presented by the City Council to the canon that it imposes for said concession. Cruz hopes that he does not demand the demolition of this site, as in Los Silos, and advocates that the Consistory assume the canon that Costas asks for if it is the only alternative. All of this, “in order to be able to provide citizens with the service and activities that this infrastructure has been imparting.”
The emergency work financed by the Cabildo to repair the sinkhole produced by the increasingly frequent adverse coastal phenomena and that affects the Los Menceyes sculptural group, located next to the Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias, is insufficient, according to the nationalist municipal spokesperson . “This is a patch that will only temporarily alleviate the problem and it will be necessary to carry out a major work to protect the seafront to solve it definitively.” An intervention “in which all administrations must be involved”, said Ángela Cruz
