we can canaries has decided to “withdraw the support” that until now provided the government of the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, chaired by the socialist Pedro Martín, after what the organization has described as a “chain of irregularities and violence” in the works of the Cradle of the Soul macroprojectin the Port of Adeje.
A detainee and several injured in a protest for the works of the tourist macroproject in Puertito de Adeje
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Laura Fuentes Vega, autonomous coordinator of Podemos Canarias, has expressed her “disappointment” at what she has described as “a mixture of complicity and cowardice” of the island government in the face of the macro-project, recalling that “the government of Pedro Martín openly expressed its support for some works that soon proved irregular”.
“Today, when Canarian society expresses its resounding rejection of the macroproject, the PSOE tries to throw balls out and to hit the blind spot against Nona Perera, general director of Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands and member of Podemos Canarias, which has been the only public official that has taken action in the matter against Cuna del Alma. The level of disloyalty and opportunism of Pedro Martín is simply regrettable”, criticized Fuentes.
The coordinator refers to the affirmation of the insular president that the powers to order the precautionary stoppage of the works are held by Patrimony, something denied by that general direction, which recalled that it is the Cabildo that has to act.
After having functioned as external support for the current insular government of the PSOE and Ciudadanos for the last three years, the formation considers that the events in Puertito de Adeje and Martín’s attitude towards the episodes of violence against activists in recent weeks they have led to the “irreversible loss of confidence” in the insular Executive.
In this regard, Cristo González, island councilor for the Sí Podemos Canarias coalition, affirms that “at the time we decided to give the PSOE a vote of confidence as a sign of our willingness to promote progressive management for the island”, but that the balance after three years of mandate “is sadly negative”.
“We are facing a government that insists on formulas from 30 years ago when the citizens of Tenerife ask us to move towards the future,” he stresses.
For his part, David Carballo, also a councilor for Sí Podemos, has defined the party’s decision as “the logical reaction after three years fighting urban nonsense by a government that presented itself as progressive and has ended up falling into the logic of destruction that it said was coming.” to change”.
“We are talking about a government whose main milestones have been to continue with outdated projects, legacy of the Canarian Coalition and its 32 uninterrupted years of government on the island”, the councilor pointed out.
At this point, the island councilors of Sí Podemos Canarias recall that since the beginning of the island mandate, the socialist Pedro Martín has promoted the Port of Fonsalía, the Motor Circuit and the southern train, with “little progress in transparency, citizen participation, environmental care, mobility or clean energy”.
González and Carballo have agreed to describe these initiatives as “a symptom of the disconnection of the PSOE with the historical moment in which we live, which requires moving towards a production model of the year 2022, which is committed to sustainability, scientific development and public services, and overcome once and for all the unsuccessful model of urban planning and waste” .
“A 180-degree turn is necessary in the management of the island, which directs it towards a decent horizon and frees it once and for all from the clutches of destruction,” they insist.
To conclude, Laura Fuentes affirms that “Tenerife deserves a horizon of care, decent employment and sustainability, and we are going to work hard to build it”.
If the Socialist Party wants to continue promoting policies of destruction in the Cabildo de Tenerife, it will be without our support❌
For Adeje, Fonsalía, the Motor Circuit, the South Train and so many other fights ✊💜
– We can Canary Islands (@PodemosCanarias) October 5, 2022
The Cuna del Alma tourism macroproject aims to urbanize with hotels and 420 luxury villas (among other infrastructures) more than 400,000 square meters in a ravine and beach in the south of Tenerife, one of the few without tourist infrastructure built. The project already has two negative reports (from 2014 and 2017) and one sanction proposal by the General Directorate of Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands, which confirmed, after a report from the Island Council, that it had been destroyed irreversibly and without taking any protective measures an important archaeological site. The company has confirmed to this newspaper that it has appealed this sanction proposal.
In addition, in the environmental impact reports presented, up to seven protected plant species that are found in the area that is already being urbanized do not appear.
In addition, the director of the project, Andrés Muñoz, has been charged with alleged assault an activist from the protest camp against the works. The video of the events was presented, along with an injury report, to the Adeje Civil Guard.
