The Salvar El Puertito de Adeje platform has asked the Canarian PSOE this Thursday to dismiss its president and mayor of Adeje (Tenerife), José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, for alleged “chieftain” practices to allow “the destruction” of the municipality’s coastline with megaprojects tourist.
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The platform cites among those megaprojects that of Cradle of the Soul, which in his opinion will benefit “a few Belgian millionaires” and harm the residents of the municipality and the island as a whole. Said plan foresees the urbanization of more than 430,000 square meters with hotels, luxury villas, swimming pools, restaurants, beach clubs, an orchard of more than 20,000 square meters and even a jetty, next to a Site of Scientific Interest (SIC) and protected .
Salvar el Puertito also cites a information published this Wednesday in the newspaper Public according to which the mayor of Adeje has articulated “a patronage network” that makes it easier for him “not to find neighborhood opposition to his urban nonsense”.
“The publication highlights the lack of democratic guarantees in the municipality, since opacity continues to characterize the management of Mayor Rodríguez Fraga, who refuses to give public information to journalists, councilors and residents in general,” he says.
For this reason, the Salvar El Puertito platform asks the PSOE of the Canary Islands “to publicly condemn these anti-democratic practices of its president and to remove him immediately, since doing nothing, he adds, would only denote” complicity with authoritarianism and the loss of perspective of the mayor of Adeje“.
Rodríguez Fraga has been governing this tourist municipality of Tenerife since 1987, 35 years ago.
Works temporarily stopped
The works to build the Cradle of the Soul megaproject are stops from May 31 by order of the Insular Directorate of Planning of the Territory and Historical Heritage, who issued a resolution by which the works that were being carried out, very close to a protected reserve, are suspended in a precautionary manner. Said suspension is conditioned to the analysis of the technical study (already presented by the company before the Canarian Government and the City Council, but not before the Cabildo) to guarantee the protection of archaeological elements.
