Martín appreciates the responsible support of the PP and charges against CC-PNC for seeking a blocking of accounts to leave the Government “adrift”
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government group of the Cabildo de Tenerife (PSOE-Cs), with the support of the PP, has initially approved the last budgets of the mandate with the rejection of CC-PNC and Sí Podemos, which have not been able to carry out their amendments to the whole.
Next year’s budget breaks a historical record and totals 946.8 million, 20.7% more than this year and rises to 1,055 million if public entities and companies are included, 20% more.
The accounts freeze the salaries of directors and senior positions, as was done in 2021, and include a strong 40% increase in investments to reach 269 million and PP amendments, amounting to 17 million, which open the door to development of the North and South trains and a determined boost to the port of Puerto de la Cruz.
Mobility takes 126.5 million, 68% more, with 101 million in subsidies for public transport (+41 million), the incorporation of 40 buses from a batch of 130 or the drafting of projects for the burying of the rail entrance to the Santa Cruz de Tenerife interchange or the construction of the Los Cristianos interchange.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, has thanked the “support” of the PP for the accounts, which “is not a blank check” because ideological differences remain, but he has recognized that it would have been “terrible” if the island did not count with budget.
He has charged against CC-PNC for trying to “drift” the Government, with “media pressure” included for the PP, and maintains that it is a “very good agreement” that avoids the “paralysis” of the island and that the budget will be reduced to just 400 million.
He has stressed that the accounts are “municipalist” and with distribution criteria endorsed by Fecam and regarding the rupture of Sí Podemos, he has indicated that the Socialists have complied with the governance agreement since the Motor Circuit was not part of the pact.
MARTÍN ADMITS “DOUBTS” ABOUT THE TRAINS
Regarding the trains, he has acknowledged that he has “doubts” about the two projects but he is not opposed to continuing to study the initiatives and is waiting for the island mobility study commissioned by the Cabildo to be completed by the middle of next year.
Martín believes that “it is not reasonable” to “accept the imposition” of three councilors when another 28 support the circuit, even though he understands that the purple coalition wants to have its “own profile” in the upcoming elections.
He has defended that the 2022 budget execution is the best since 2017, that socio-sanitary places have been created with another model –small homes or home help– and unsuccessfully requested that both CC-PNC and Sí Podemos abstain.
The president has criticized Alonso’s constant “changes in position” during his term and has accused him of wanting to “confront the mayors” in a “cainita” way on account of municipal investments, hiding data at his convenience.
Javier Rodríguez, spokesman for the Socialist Group, has branded the amendment to all the nationalists as “generic and superficial”, plagued by “errors and inconsistencies”, reproaching them for “pleasing things not to go well”.
He has said that the spokesman, Carlos Alonso, has been “upset” and with a “tantrum” for the motion of no confidence for more than three years and has indicated that the court ruling that endorsed it “will persecute him for his bad loss.”
Rodríguez has not understood the amendment to all of Sí Podemos either because many of the amendments are already in execution and he has thanked the PP for its support for the accounts to prevent the island from “staying six months in dry dock.”
Alonso has branded the insular budget as “unbalanced” because “it sins in the same errors” as in the entire mandate and shows that “with crutches you do not get very far”, in reference to the support of Sí Podemos for the first three budgets and that of the PP to the last.
ALONSO: THE GOVERNMENT “IS WEAKER THAN EVER”
He has pointed out that the insular government “is weaker than ever” and at a time when many families “do not make it to the end of the month”, even with two salaries at home since inflation “wreaks havoc”.
Thus, he has said that the Cabildo “is richer and the citizens are poorer” due to the increase in collection that later does not correspond to spending for vulnerable families or to the execution of investments.
It has also warned of the “territorial imbalance” and the “sectarianism” of the insular government with which it distributes investments by municipalities, since 44% of the population of socialist municipalities takes 60% of the funds.
Special mention, he has highlighted, deserves Santa Cruz de Tenerife, who is “mistreated” with less than six million investment.
Alonso has also been critical of the “failure” in the socio-sanitary management, without the construction of new beds in three years, he has already claimed his group as the “real alternative” to the PSOE in the face of the “disaster” of the mandate.
ZAIDA GONZÁLEZ: NEITHER AID OR MONEY LAUNDERING TO ISLAND MANAGEMENT
The spokesperson for the Popular Group, Zaida González, has highlighted that with the support for the budgets her party has kept “its word” to have a hand throughout the mandate to free the island government from the “kidnapping” to which it has been subjected by a “minority” group like Sí Podemos.
He has said that it is a matter of “recovering the lost road map” to face an “unprecedented crisis” and that it is not a matter of “whitewashing” the management or “help” the government group, since it has been a “disappointing” mandate.
He has claimed the “responsibility” of his group for not generating “economic damage” to the island and regretted that the understanding with PSOE and Cs “arrives late” because the Cabildo “has been more of a stumbling block than a solution” for the island.
He has also pointed out that as a result of the approval of this budget a “new stage” opens in the corporation in which all the groups will have to negotiate for the benefit of the island.
YES WE CAN: THEY GIVE CONTINUITY TO CC “DEVELOPER” PROJECTS
María José Belda, spokesperson for Sí Podemos, –she has appeared with a sign that read ‘Bus yes, train no’– has blamed the PSOE for giving “continuity” to CC development projects and not controlling the vice president, who has removed “from the drawer” all the initiatives of “predatory” nationalists with the ground.
He has defended the solidity of his group, which has never behaved like a “weather vane”, has warned that the Motor Circuit project has generated a “serious conflict” in Tenerife society and has blamed Martín for “rights and employers are very happy” with the budget agreement to open the door to trains. “He has not trembled his pulse,” he commented.