Canarian Coalition “categorically” rejects the possibility that the Port Authority of the province of Las Palmas “take control” of the entity in the province of Tenerife. The nationalists draw this conclusion from the recent statements made by the president of the port entity of Las Palmas, Luis Ibarrain which he advocates “a unit that is getting closer” with the Tenerife
The secretary of the Organization of Tenerife nationalists and regional deputy, Rosa Daviladenounced yesterday after a meeting with representatives of CEOE-Tenerife that “we could be facing a hostile takeover bid by the Port Authority of Las Palmas to take over the one in Tenerife, and it is something that the CC de Tenerife is not going to allow”. Dávila reiterated that “we are not going to allow the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to be swallowed up.” “We want to send a loud and clear message to the PSOE: we are not going to allow this hostile takeover bid. For this reason, CC is going to demand explanations on this matter in Parliament from the Minister of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis.
“The Island cannot remain diluted or continue to lose leadership, and even more so with this type of attempt to engulf the Tenerife Port Authority,” Rosa Davila stressed. Yesterday, Tenerife nationalists held a meeting with the president of CEOE-Tenerife, Peter Alfonsoand the CEO Eduardo Bezaresa meeting also attended by the insular secretary general of the CC de Tenerife, Francisco Linares, and the spokesperson for the CC-PNC Group in the Council of Tenerife, Carlos Alonso. Along the same lines as Dávila, CC points out in a statement that the president of the CEOE-Tenerife expressed “his bewilderment” about the statements of the president of Puertos de Las Palmas that “leads to understand a possible merger” with that of the province of Tenerife. Pedro Alfonso believes that if this were the case, “this point should not be under discussion because both fulfill their functions and projects.”
Likewise, Alfonso stated that at the meeting “the concern of the employers about the drift of the REF was made clear, expressing that the lack of interest is perceived when negotiating some of the aspects of the Economic and Fiscal Regime.” Alfonso understands that, in addition, “the opportunity cannot be missed to defend before Europe that the outermost regions are an exception in the measure of unifying criteria in matters of corporate taxation”.
The president of CEOE-Tenerife reported that they also discussed development in the Islands at the meeting with the Canary Coalition. He expressed his concern “for the stoppage of public-private investments in the province of Tenerife.”
