SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 24. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Popular Party of the Canary Islands has denounced the “persistent contempt” that the Government of Spain maintains with the Archipelago, counting on the “pleitesy and complicity” of the Executive chaired by Ángel Víctor Torres, in matters “so relevant and of vital importance for the Islands” such as the road agreement and the transfers of Coastal powers.
Regarding the road agreement, the PP deputy in Congress Ana Zurita pointed out that it is “one more example that there are no commitments with the Canary Islands”, and described the development of the negotiations between the Canary Islands and the State as “teasing”.
Zurita affirmed that the continuity of the road agreement and its execution in the short term is “essential for the development of the Islands and for solving serious mobility problems that worsen day by day and that are the result, not only of the lack of financing but of poor planning and management by the Government of the Canary Islands, which is responsible for the execution of the works due to its jurisdictional regime,” he said.
“From the Popular Parliamentary Group in Congress we have registered a battery of questions with the aim of shedding a little light, of clarifying, a process that has no end and that puts the Canary Islands against the ropes,” Ana Zurita announced.
The popular raise to the Government of Spain how much is the total amount of the works contemplated in the annex to the road agreement with the Canary Islands; if it plans to establish a temporary and economic planning of the works contemplated in said annex, how priorities and their temporary and economic development are related; if it will reformulate the clause that obliges the Community to assume the extra cost of the works that exceed 1,200 million euros; and what is the temporary planning for the payment of the amounts that are owed established in the judicial sentences.
COSTS TRANSFERS
For her part, the deputy of the Popular Group in the Autonomous Parliament, Luz Reverón, has denounced the “obscurantism” maintained by the Government of the Canary Islands with regard to the transfer of Costas: “Torres constantly gets involved when explaining the needs of his Government to assume the transfer alleging the scarcity of economic and human resources, and announcing a meeting of the Mixed Commission, which never came”.
In this sense, the popular deputy assured that the president of the regional Executive “lies” every time he talks about the transfer of Costas. “As the months go by, it adds new deadlines to the calendar, when the reality is that the Sánchez government assures that it is not yet possible to stipulate a date in this regard,” she said.
Luz Reverón insisted on the “little political weight that Torres has in Madrid to demand satisfactory answers and actions regarding the main issues that affect the Canary Islands. He has calmly accepted the indifference that his leader, Pedro Sánchez, offers him, forgetting his responsibility and the commitment it has with the Islands and the Canary Islands”, he concluded.
