The CC-PNC group of the Council of Tenerife will defend 10 proposals in the plenary session on the state of the Island on Wednesday to help overcome the crisis that affects thousands of people in Tenerife. Carlos Alonso, island councilor –accompanied at the press conference by Verónica Meseguer and Antolín Bueno– assured that “in these three years, the PSOE has done very little”. “Tenerife is worse off: there are more queues, not a single new social-health plaza has been built and there are 10,000 more unemployed compared to the previous mandate.” Alonso indicated that “they abandoned the elderly by eliminating the Ansina program” and “they cut the opportunities for young people when the Tenerife 2030 strategy disappeared.” The CC-PNC spokesman also pointed out that “while Gran Canaria is committed to projects such as the train, here the PSOE and Podemos say no and Tenerife is left behind”, while pointing out that “Puerto de la Cruz is paralyzed because they have taken away the urban competences from the Rehabilitation Consortium». These are the 10 CC-PNC proposals:
1. Attention to people in severe poverty.
A care program for people in severe poverty and exclusion for households whose main breadwinner is a woman with dependent minors. It must provide additional resources to improve employability, education, the improvement of housing conditions, the prevention of violence, assistance in situations of dependency and attention to other psychosocial factors that affect exclusion. It must be reinforced by measures to support conciliation that make it easier for women to progress within the program.
2. Mental health bonuses.
Creation of bonuses for mental health care for self-employed workers affected by the crisis. The bonds will be managed by the Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development (Fifede) with the collaboration of other associations that work with self-employed people.
3. Aid for the purchase of housing.
Provision of 5 million euros from the Government of the Canary Islands for aid for the purchase of homes and making them available to the most vulnerable families in Tenerife under a social rental system.
4. Port of the Cross.
The Urban Development Consortium for the Rehabilitation of Puerto de la Cruz must be the main tourist engine in the North and its potential must be maximized to recover the projects, recovering the urban development powers according to the non-renewed agreement with the City Council.
5. Cultural Infrastructures.
Another edition of the Cultural Infrastructure Plan 2022-2026 with 40 million. The new plan must collect the contributions of all municipalities, in order to seek territorial balance and improve cultural facilities.
6. Aid to industry.
The Cabildo must implement –or urge the Canarian Government and the State– measures such as increasing aid for industrial consumption in the Specific Supply Regime (REA). Standard costs must also be increased in accordance with the real costs borne by industries and compensation for freight transport. Measures must be adopted to reduce energy costs and aid for energy expenditure. Implementation of gas in industrial activity compared to the current use of fuel-oil. Another initiative is to establish direct aid and liquidity aid for industrial companies. It is also requested to lower the excise duties / taxes of insular and regional management and that industrial companies can benefit from an ERTE due to force majeure.
7. Primary sector.
Execute the actions of the motions to support the primary sector and develop an immediate action plan to mitigate the consequences of the war in Ukraine on costs.
8. BUS-HOV lane.
Paralyze the project for the bypass of the TF-5 Padre Anchieta–Los Rodeos and promote the BUS–HOV La Orotava-metropolitan area project.
9. The trains.
Promote the trains of the North and the South, requesting European and national funds and speeding up the projects.
10. Measures pending from 2021.
The Plan for the Elderly, reopening the Insular Center for Marine Sports (Cidemat), dismantling the migrant centers in La Laguna, the new Tenerife Sur airport terminal, the Youth Employment Plan, promoting renewable energies and changing the management model of animal welfare.
