SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 1. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The socialist group in the Cabildo de Tenerife will defend a set of ten proposals that seek to improve people’s lives and move towards an island with greater social, economic and territorial balance in the Debate on the State of the Island that is being held this Wednesday.
To put an end to wastewater discharges on the coast of Tenerife, the PSOE proposes to continue developing by the Cabildo, in coordination and collaboration with the rest of the public administrations, the strategy and the necessary actions to avoid the serious problem of wastewater discharges that the Island has suffered for decades. According to the Socialist Party, this is a mandatory proposal due to the lack of investment in sanitation and purification suffered by the island in the last three decades.
Another of the proposals seeks that the Cabildo continue with actions of assistance, collaboration and cooperation with the municipalities of the Island, especially with those with less than 20,000 inhabitants and with preferential attention to those with less economic and management capacity, and thus continue promoting the territorial, social and economic balance of Tenerife. According to the Socialists, the objective is to continue with the firm and decisive commitment of the PSOE with which municipalism and the territorial investment balance are a transversal axis of the actions promoted from the insular area.
The socialist group also advocates promoting and encouraging Dual Vocational Training in Tenerife from the Cabildo, in coordination with all the social and economic agents involved, the participation of small and medium-sized companies in this training modality, to strengthen quality and extension of the Dual Vocational Training system on the Island; working through the promotion, advice and support to companies together with the work carried out by the Departments of Education and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Another of the proposals of the PSOE of Tenerife involves developing a training plan at different levels to accompany the development process of the audiovisual industry in Tenerife, as well as designing an infrastructure and resource management plan that attracts audiovisual productions to the Island. In any case, it must be accompanied by the organization of a periodic insular meeting of all the operators in the sector to give new impetus to audiovisual policy and the cultural industry in Tenerife.
REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
The PSOE is committed to continuing to promote the rationalization and reduction of the insular public sector in the Cabildo. The Island Corporation is the Canarian Public Administration with the largest number of entities, especially public companies, that make up its public sector and one of the first at the national level. That is why since the arrival of the PSOE to the Cabildo, the adoption of measures to rationalize, organize, control and make more efficient the functioning of the entities that make up the insular public sector has intensified.
In terms of roads, the PSOE proposes to continue betting on improving the mobility of the Island with the culmination of the Insular Plan for Sustainable Mobility of Tenerife and the development of works such as the closure of the section of the island ring between Santiago del Teide and El Tanque , the first phase of the third lane of the TF-1, the Chafiras-Oroteanda work, the burying of the La Esperanza highway or the pedestrian footbridge at the Padre Anchieta roundabout.
In this sense, the PSOE of Tenerife recalls the construction projects that are currently being processed and that it considers essential to help resolve the collapse of traffic on the TF-1 and TF-5: the La Laguna bypass, the section of the insular ring between Icod de los Vinos and San Juan de la Rambla, the third bus-vao lane on the TF-5 from Santa Cruz to La Orotava and the variant of the TF-1 between Guaza and Fañabé.
OTHER PROPOSALS.
To cover the needs of public housing on the Island, the PSOE advocates urging the Government of Spain to strengthen and speed up the actions of SAREB, the Management Company for Assets Proceeding from Bank Restructuring, in social housing. The aim is to maximize the social utility of these properties and to allow all administrations with powers in housing matters to make use of them to cover the existing need for housing.
In relation to the Hospitals of the North and South of Tenerife, the PSOE proposes to urge the Government of the Canary Islands to prioritize, promote and execute the actions that are necessary for both to reach the third level category. This reinforcement would mean decongesting the hospitals of Nuestra Señora de Candelaria and the Universitario de Canarias and guaranteeing quality health care throughout the island.
The PSOE also proposes to continue providing the necessary support to the Saharawi people and that the Cabildo show its agreement with the start-up of the Spanish-Moroccan commission, with a representative of the Government of the Canary Islands, and that a work table be set up for information and advisory with the different councils.
The PSOE also seeks a firm commitment from all the political forces represented in the plenary session of the Cabildo not to make pacts or agreements with parties that represent the extreme right. “The discourse of the extreme right in our country attacks the most basic principles of democracy and fundamental rights such as freedom, justice and equality,” they point out from the PSOE.