The Plenary session of La Laguna approved yesterday “the carrying out of a study that allows us to address the necessary non-denominational nature of the municipal street map and the public spaces of La Laguna, in correspondence with the values contained in the Constitution.” This is reflected in an amendment presented by United you can, to a motion of the PP, and that went ahead with the support of the other government partners, except Santiago Pérez who abstained and also CC, and the vote against Cs and pp.
The spokesperson for Unidas se puede, Rubens Ascanio, who defended the amendment, later explained that “the study is to find out what number of streets we have linked to a certain religiosity and assess for the future, especially so that any association or group of neighbors can propose to designate their street in a certain way”. In addition, the study “will also help to know which denominations already exist and avoid in the future an over-representation of a religion that in the end is only part of the population”, thus also trying to avoid duplication and “give representation to another type of beliefs”. “And if you want to propose a name change, it will also be addressed, but it is not the central element,” said the councilor, who emphasized that the study “is not for the elimination of religious references on public roads” and that it does not it is about “launching a campaign in favor of secularism in public spaces”.
The Councilor for Equality, Idaira Afonso, also added that, based on a study carried out by the Women’s Council, more than 80% of the roads and sculptures in the municipality are dedicated to men and that a large part of those with a female name They are religious in nature. The amendment was approved within the framework of a PP motion for the labeling of a street or square with the name of Ntra. Sra. de la Cinta.
The plenary session, which started with a concentration of several residents with banners against the variant of the TF-5 in the Cruz Chica, agreed on several institutional agreements, such as a motion on a CC proposal to start a participatory and public process to “have a municipal ordinance regulating the use of fireworks”, which will regulate “times and places, explosive and/or sound charges, authorizations, prohibitions and everything that allows traditions to be maintained, mitigating or avoiding the negative effects on health of people and animals.
another motion
Another motion was also agreed as institutional, at the proposal of CC, to propose to Titsa a series of improvements in urban transport, such as that the vehicle that covers the route of line 275 be standard and not micro type, improvements also in the lines 271, 273 and 274 and urge the Cabildo to promote spaces in the Anaga Rural Park that end the massive use of private vehicles, favoring park-and-ride parking and shuttle buses. Another of the institutional agreements, based on a proposal from Cs, was to continue the work already announced for a change of route of the San Silvestre Lagunera 2023, initiating a dialogue process with all the parties involved.
CC also asked about the completion of the reserved file in relation to the complaint filed, in November 2021, by the College of Secretaries, Auditors and Treasurers of Local Administration against the treatment received by a councilor and an official. From the local government, it was responded that the Governing Board agreed to the “file and free dismissal of the proceedings of reserved information and exempts those involved from any type of responsibility.” The Plenary also approved the extension of the 2022 budget, until this year’s comes into force.
