The plenary session of the Cabildo, in an urgent and extraordinary session, proceeded yesterday to the final approval of the island accounts for this 2023, after that during the public information process of the budget, approved on December 16, Gregorio Negrín, number two of Nueva Canarias (NC) on the list to the Mayor’s Office of Santa Cruz, will present an allegation whose dismissal was approved yesterday by the Plenary with the support of the PSOE, Ciudadanos and PP. The forecast is that the budget for this exercise will enter into force next week, once it is published in the bulletin, according to what the Cabildo pointed out.
For its part, CC supported the allegation and its arguments, “both from the point of view of non-compliance that the Cabildo has made with respect to the provisions contained in the MEDI-Fdcan program, the obligations it has in relation to the municipalities and , in particular, with that of Santa Cruz, as in relation to the strategic framework for the development of investments of the sectoral programs in the content”, explained the spokesman for the nationalists, Carlos Alonso. In addition, he added, “we also adhere to the claim for breach of the agreement for the reform of Cidemat.”
Alonso argued that “estimating the allegation does not imply paralyzing the budget, but attending to the claim that ultimately comes to point out a great truth, which is the marginalization that the budget makes with the municipality and the citizens of Santa Cruz, which as the capital he deserves a fair treatment by the Cabildo and not the one that this year is going to give him from the budgetary point of view”.
However, the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, defended that “this budget has been clear about the adequate distribution of resources and takes into account the capital precisely because of that condition, and for this reason we have started programs with which the capital had never counted, and that unfortunately they have not been able to take advantage of, even returning money”.
Likewise, the spokesman for the Socialists, Javier Rodríguez, criticized CC for forgetting the “general interest of the Island and joining the political tacticism”, and affirmed that this year’s accounts “do not attend to political sectarianism, but to a global vision and integration of the Island”.
Meanwhile, from the PP, its spokesperson, Zaida González, pointed out that, although she recognized the delay in the work of Cidemat, “we are not going to paralyze a budget in an election year for and for the revenue of a little while in the media. For us the priority is in the groups that need the budget to continue their work in a stage that is economically critical”.
For his part, the spokesman for Sí Podemos Canarias, David Carballo, recalled that, although in the budget debate “we opposed it, it seemed politically dishonest to us to ignore the Cabildo’s report, which is clear and says that these allegations are not take place, and paralyze the budget”, for which they abstained. Meanwhile, María José Belda, now a non-attached director, who also abstained, added that “with my vote I cannot dismiss this claim because I would be supporting the budget, something I did not do in December.”
