The general coordinator of Podemos Canarias, Laura Fuentes, was yesterday open to dialogue and “wanting the best for the Canary Islands”, and in that “we will continue to sit down with the PSOE and with whomever is necessary. But little games, the righteous.” In this way, Fuentes responded, in statements to Radio Canaria collected by Efe, to the “outstretched hand” offered by the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, the socialist Pedro Martín, after the purple formation announced last Wednesday that it withdraws its support for the island government.
Podemos Canarias reproduced these statements by Fuentes on social networks, which were accompanied by the slogan “Against hoaxes, rigor. The law is clear”, referring to the controversy surrounding the powers of the Cabildo and the General Directorate of Historical Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands in the file opened to the promoter of the Cuna del Alma project, in Puertito de Adeje.
Fuentes maintains that the regional department of Historical Heritage, which controls Podemos, has “attempted to redirect the situation with the PSOE”; specifically, with the Insular Directorate of Heritage, “understanding that beyond the political there is an institutional loyalty that must prevail.”
In addition, he stressed that, as it is an infraction classified as very serious in terms of damage caused to the archaeological heritage in the works of Cuna del Alma, the fine corresponds to the Government of the Canary Islands but the stoppage of 2% of the project “depends on the Cabildo ” because he is the one who paralyzed them precautionarily. Within a period of six months, it must decide whether this paralysis is definitive or it is lifted, in which case, and only from that moment, he stressed, the regional administration “could act”. Everything else that has been discussed these days from the Cabildo, Fuentes added, “is diverting attention, fomenting trouble and manipulating.”
Finally, he recalled that the vice president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Berta Pérez, attended the ceremony of the first stone of Cuna del Alma and that “for a time the PSOE has been on the side” in this matter, and now “has taken the reins against a government partner” in the regional Executive.
Meanwhile, the spokeswoman for the Sí Podemos group in the Cabildo de Tenerife, María José Belda, expressed herself in Cope Canarias and Radio Club Tenerife against “the ways” with which the purple formation has announced the end of its support for the island government . She indicated that both Podemos, Sí se puede and Equo should have “sat down” before this announcement to “assess different situations and to weigh what was going to be done” with the 2023 budgets of the Island Corporation. Belda understands that Podemos Canarias has created “a smokescreen” by breaking with the PSOE in the Cabildo, while maintaining alliances both in the regional government and in municipalities such as La Laguna.
