Miguel Ojeda, president of Elite Taxi, announced on the microphones of Cope Tenerife that the taxi drivers of Santa Cruz plan “mobilizations” after the agreement reached so that buses and trams are free.
“It is another stick for the sector, as we have been accustomed to in recent years from the administrations. The most curious thing is that in Canarian Coalition They have not had time to meet with us to talk about the problem that this measure will generate for us,” he said.
Ojeda indicated that they are not going to allow their families to “ruin” something for which they are willing to mobilize: “We have agreed routes of huge demonstrations, not for two hours, but perhaps for whole days”.
Gratuity agreement
Canarian Coalition (CC) reached an agreement with the Government of Spain to improve the financial tab of the islands in the General State Budgets (PGE), which includes the gratuity from January 1 of the buses and the tram and that guarantees the support of its two deputies, Ana Oramas and María Fernández, to the state accounts.
This was announced today Monday by the regional senator and national secretary general of the Canary Islands Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, at a press conference in which he appeared together with the deputies Ana Oramas and María Fernández to report on the commitments that CC has managed to “start ” to the Government of Pedro Sánchez in order to lend its support to the 2023 Budgets.
Fernando Clavijo informed that there is already an agreement closed with the Government that supposes 21 amendments presented and signed by the Canary Islands Coalition and the Socialist Party that will be incorporated into the state accounts and that suppose that the General Budgets “comply with the Canary Islands”.
Clavijo wanted to make it clear that the Canarian Coalition is not going to allow these agreements not to be fulfilled: “It is absolutely unthinkable that in the first quarter of 2023 all these agreements, which our deputies have reached in the Congress of Deputies, will not be put into operation and begin to have a relief effect on families and small and medium-sized businesses in the Canary Islands”.
Of the measures agreed with the Government of Spain, the deputy Ana Oramas explained that an item of 81 million euros is contemplated, which will be expandable, for free buses and trams throughout the coming year, a measure that, As he assured, “it will benefit all the citizens of the Canary Islands.”
Another of the agreements reached involves the creation of a mixed commission, which will meet in the first quarter of 2023 and where the Government of the Canary Islands, the Government of Spain and maritime operators and businessmen will be represented, to establish that 100% of the cost of the transport of goods is assumed by the State.
Likewise, it is contemplated that 50 percent of the compensation for the transport of merchandise is collected in the first six months and not two years after paying the freight, an agreement that Ana Oramas described as “historic”.
Regarding the transport of bananas from the Canary Islands, the nationalist deputy indicated that this year’s General State Budgets only contemplated an item of 10 million euros, for which reason it has been agreed with the Government that in the 2023 accounts this game to 20 million euros.
In relation to La Palma, Oramas announced that an agreement has been reached to reduce 60 percent of personal income tax for all the inhabitants of the island during 2022 and 2023, which means that palm trees and palm trees “will have more disposable income and that In the next income statement, a very important amount will be returned to the majority ”. In addition, an item of 100 million euros is foreseen for the La Palma Reconstruction Plan, which will be extended and expanded in the coming years.
Finally, the nationalist deputy advanced that the PGE of 2023 will contemplate two items of 250,000 euros each destined for the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology and the University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands.
