SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, confirmed this Tuesday the agreement of the insular government (PSOE-Cs) with the PP to approve the 2023 budgets next Friday in plenary session of the corporation.
In a statement released by the corporation, it has pointed out that “Tenerife cannot remain paralyzed” for not having approved budgets, given that “it would cause great damage to the island” which is why it has “reached out” to all groups of the opposition that have finally borne fruit with the PP.
Martín has appreciated that the “ideological differences” between the two parties have been overcome and “political partisanship” has been parked to carry out a “powerful budget” for the benefit of the island of Tenerife.
The agreement includes, broadly speaking, the commitment to the trains to the North and South of the island -discarded during this term by Pedro Martín himself- and a set of strategic investments for Puerto de la Cruz.
From the Cabildo they emphasize that an extended island budget has “important limitations” that would reduce by half the more than 938 million euros initially planned in the budget project for the year 2023.
In practice, they indicate, this would mean that the contribution to the IASS for dependency care could not be carried out and the same would happen with the ring of social policies, gender violence, care for migrant minors, network of supervised flats or the amounts corresponding to the Socio-Health Infrastructure Plan, in addition to credits earmarked for scholarships.
Along these lines, they insist that credits for investments that are currently being carried out for large works such as TF-1 or TF-5 should be suspended.
Likewise, any registered subsidy would be left without the corresponding credit in the extended budget and this includes transfers to city councils for carrying out investment actions or actions in social, cultural, sports, environmental matters or hydraulic infrastructures.
Similarly, subsidies for agriculture, livestock and fisheries would be left without budgetary credit –for example, subsidies in favor of an island slaughterhouse or subsidies in favor of animal protectors, among others–.
The subsidies to sports clubs on the island as well as the sponsorships of the big clubs would not have the necessary credit in a budget that is extended and the contributions to the Insular Water Council for the actions that are carried out in hydraulic infrastructures would be equally affected. purification and desalination of water throughout the island; the renewal of the bus fleet and the various agreements on transport and contributions to the Insular Board of Music, TEA and Auditorium, among others.
