The Cabildo will increase its budget by 6.5 million euros as a result of the 24 amendments presented to the remainder of the accounts by Sí Podemos Canarias, a group that externally supports the PSOE and Cs government. The social sphere, with 7 economic contributions, sustainability and the primary sector, in both cases with 5, are the main areas where the purples focus their corrections for the 2022 financial year.
The three directors of Sí Podemo Canarias –María José Belda, David Carballo and Cristo González– present the main lines of this “detailed and intense work, the result of a lot of contact with Tenerife society” as defined by spokeswoman Belda. The exact amount is 6,568,511 euros and is already integrated after going through commission in the opinions of the remainder in the absence of the approval of the plenary session on Wednesday. In addition to the social, sustainability and primary sector, the amendments are completed by the three for Education and Cultural Heritage and the two for Water Supply and Animal Welfare, respectively.
In Housing, they explain, “we contribute one million euros that are added to the previous three.” Also “there will be two more for basic products for vulnerable families at risk of exclusion and poverty that join the three that we achieved last year through the prepaid card.”
Sí Podemos Canarias does not forget its vocation to promote sustainability or measures that favor the environment “as opposed to projects such as the Granadilla regasification plant”. In this sense, they propose 600,000 euros to reinforce the 400,000 to subsidize photovoltaic panels.
They also allocate 300.00 euros “to the cleaning of municipal dumping spaces buried in the 80 that have come back to the surface.” Carballo defends natural purification in Isla Baja or the creation of temporary prefabricated houses for people living in poverty. González makes proposals on Animal Welfare, Food Sovereignty or Water Supply so that “no Tenerife resident is left without supplies.”
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Sí Podemos Canarias also presents its decalogue of measures for the plenary session of the Debate on the State of the Island on Wednesday 4.
For example, they propose a coastal greenway linking Las Teresitas beach and Puertito de Güímar. Also the recognition of the Canary Islands as a full-fledged Archipelago in the legal field or a public energy marketer, through ITER.
The political group also speaks out against institutional racism and the exclusion of migrants; proposes the diagnosis of secondary violence within the machistas; a project against aporophobic violence (against the poor); reestablish closed lines of Titsa and recover the ring road between neighborhoods; an agroecological island plan; the commitment to clean energy and, finally, the end of discharges into the sea at Los Silos.
