SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 24 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Popular Party of Tenerife will present a total of 22 specific amendments to the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2023 for a value that exceeds 70 million euros.
Said amendments will focus on free public transport and mobility in general, meeting the demands of the ‘canaries without wings’ so as “not to condemn the canaries who live abroad to uprooting”; Waterworks; investment in coasts and in tourist spaces, and a specific plan for housing, which puts an end to the problems of access to housing that canaries have”.
This was announced by the insular deputy secretary of the Popular Party of Tenerife, Lope Afonso, who presided over a press conference on Monday together with the PP deputies for Tenerife, Ana Zurita and Sebastián Ledesma, and the senator, Antonio Alarcó.
Regarding the project of the General State Budgets, Lope Afonso indicated that they must “stay on the table because it is a document that is defined by being highly propagandistic and electoralist.”
Lope Afonso pointed out that these budgets “reduce the productive capacity of the Canary Islands and represent a theft from all Canarians because they contain flagrant non-compliance with issues collected by the REF, which are essential to maintain the economic competitiveness of the islands and to guarantee that Canarians live under equal conditions as citizens who live in any other area of the national territory”.
The national deputy Ana Zurita also spoke in this regard, assuring that these budgets “are a mortgage for Spaniards and especially for Canarians, which seriously violates our REF and our Economy Statute”, to which she added that “our REF It is not negotiated, it is fulfilled”.
Precisely in relation to these two aspects, both Lope Afonso and Ana Zurita assured that the Popular Party “is left alone to defend the Canary Islands” and made reference to the position of the Canarian Coalition regarding the budgets for 2023, assuring that “with their attitude, they have become accomplices in an armed robbery of the canaries”.
“The only way out to solve the situation is to withdraw the budgets,” claimed both Senator Antonio Alarcó and Deputy Sebastián Ledesma, who described the budgets as “a lack of respect for the canaries.”
The members of the Popular Party announced that they will propose a strategy under the premise of activating employment and protecting the most vulnerable sectors, from the perspective of the Canarians themselves, since “our amendments reflect the needs and demands that the people of Tenerife themselves have transferred to us “, they stated.
The popular conclude that with these amendments “our purpose is to reactivate the economy and employment with the development of specific actions that promote our economic and social sectors, and our municipalities.”
