The insular Government once again favors the municipalities of the Island in which the PSOE governs and benefits those managed by the Popular Party (PP), also, through the investment chapter, to the detriment of those administered by Canarian Coalition (DC). In global terms, from the analysis of the Budgets of the Cabildo de Tenerife It can be deduced that the 13 socialist local governments on the Island will manage 61.76% of the investment, the 11 with nationalist mayors will have 15.31% and the three with PP rulers, 8.89%. The figures show that the Cabildo plans to invest next year four times as much money in the municipalities of the PSOE than in those of CC. All this excluding the investments of the entities dependent on the Island Corporation, such as the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS) and the Island Water Council of Tenerife (Ciatf).
At the extraordinary plenary session to be held next Friday, the 16th, the government made up of PSOE and Ciudadanos will present a budget that includes 102,411,845 euros in the Cabildo’s own investments. With almost the same census, the distribution is uneven. Of these, 63,250,384 are assigned to municipalities with socialist mayors and a total of 411,655 inhabitants. The residents in which CC governs are 407,910 and will only have 15,680,797 euros of investment from the Cabildo de Tenerife.
The average investment per person in 2022 was 108 euros, but in municipalities with a CC government it reached 65.5 euros compared to 149.3 euros for the PSOE. This gap increases in the case of next year’s Budget, in such a way that in the consistories governed by the Canary Islands Coalition it is practically reduced by half compared to the current year – it is only 38.4 euros per inhabitant – and is far from the 110.3 euros on average recorded by Tenerife. On the contrary, the average investment per person in the municipalities in which the PSOE rules increases to 153.6 euros. In the municipalities governed by the Popular Party, the figure increases considerably, going from a very poor 22.95 euros in 2022 to the 170.2 euros expected for the next year.
Santa Cruz, with the same investment as Fasnia
From the analysis by municipalities, it can be deduced that Santa Cruz de Tenerife will receive 5.4 million euros from the island coffers, practically the same as Fasnia (5.3 million), which has 75 times less population than the capital of Tenerife.
Arico, the only municipality without direct investment
The case of Arico is paradigmatic, since the government (First Arico, CC and PP) will not receive a euro of investment in 2023. Something similar occurs in Tacoronte, with the mayor of Nueva Canary Islandsto which only 227,500 euros will arrive, approximately. In Arico, the PSOE suffered a motion of censure in November 2019 that ousted its local leader, Senator Olivia Delgado, from the Mayor’s Office, while in the northern municipality, Carlos Medina –expelled from the PSOE–, agreed with Daniel Díaz (NC ) when the order of Pedro Martín, president of the Cabildo and insular general secretary of the socialists, was to agree with Ciudadanos.
Fasnia, the most benefited City Council
At the antipodes is Fasnia, the municipality that will benefit most from investments in 2023, with 1,912 euros per inhabitant and 5,367,167 euros. After the resignation of Damián Pérez in March of this year, the PSOE made a decided commitment to Luis Javier González, his replacement.
La Guancha elevates the PP in the statistics
Regarding the municipalities governed by the Popular Party, the increase in the average per person is mainly due to the investment planned by the insular Government in the municipality of La Guancha (4.7 million euros). This amount places the average per guanchero at 856.8 euros. In the cases of Los Realejos (3.4 million euros) and Santiago del Teide (937,000 euros), the investment ratio per person is below the island average (110.3 euros), with 92.6 euros and 84.7 euros, respectively.
In the municipalities governed by other political forces, the investment amounts to 14 million euros, with a ratio per person of 261.6 euros, more than double the island average (110.3 euros).
The classification by total investment is led by La Laguna (PSOE), with almost 23.5 million euros, followed by Puerto de la Cruz (PSOE), with 10.8 million; El Rosario (IR-LV), which exceeds 9.6 million, and Santa Cruz (CC), with almost 5.5 million. On the opposite side, Arico (PA-CC-PP), with zero euros, and Tacoronte (NC-SSP and not attached), with 227,500 euros.
