He plenary session of the council approved yesterday 46 of the 60 proposals presented by the different groups for the improvement of Tenerife, within the framework of the Debate on the State of the Island.
One of them, at the proposal of the non-attached counselor María José Belda, supposes that the Island Corporation will study the possibility of raising the situation of the removal of the monument to Franco located in Santa Cruz to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, with the objective of complying with the Democratic Memory Law, and that it went ahead with the support of the PSOE and Sí Podemos Canarias.
Others were also approved, such as the improvement of the conditions of the personnel of the insular services that care for women victims of sexist violence.
Meanwhile, Ciudadanos obtained support to request that the procedures be expedited to start the third lane of the TF-1 between Guaza and Los Cristianos, although their proposal for the construction of line 3 of the tram did not go ahead. Likewise, CC managed to get seven of its ten proposals approved, such as improving access to housing for young people or measures to improve employability. Sí Podemos Canarias carried out proposals such as a recovery plan for rural areas and another for the promotion and inclusion of LGTBIQ+ people in sport, among others.
PSOE and PP both achieved the support of their respective ten propositions. The measures of the popular are committed to an insular plan to support shelters and animal shelters and another to recover degraded tourist areas, among others. Proposals were approved from the PSOE for the expansion of the public housing stock for affordable rental or, among others, a registry of citizen initiatives and companies for the recovery of biodiversity.
Coordination
The debate began with a speech by the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, in which he gave an account of the work and improvements made by the insular Government in the last year in all areas, highlighting the coordination with all the municipalities of the Island as the axis that it has structured the insular policy during this mandate, through different investment and support plans. He also valued the “intense work” in the reorganization of the Cabildo administration and its public companies, as well as “the promotion of new programs for the generation of employment” and that, until 2022, 54.4 million have been allocated to direct and indirect aid to companies and municipalities for the generation of job opportunities.
Likewise, he affirmed that “we have put people at the center of policy management, especially the most vulnerable”, and valued the increase in the IASS budget or the new lines of support and socio-sanitary infrastructures. He also highlighted the work on highways, with projects such as the variant of the TF-5, and the investment in Titsa.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for Citizens and Councilor for Highways and Mobility of the Cabildo, Enrique Arriaga, defended that “what has been done in this legislature is to work to recover lost time” and that “planning and solutions” have been provided. For his part, the spokesman for Sí Podemos Canarias, David Carballo, criticized that the PSOE has not complied with the commitments made when his party supported the motion of censure, demonstrating that “there has been no change in the political cycle.”
From the PP, Zaida González, criticized the insular president who “lives with his back to the social reality” of the Island and denounced issues such as that “there is not a train meter” or the “nonsense” in socio-sanitary matters. The CC spokesman, Carlos Alonso, affirmed that “the Island is not better than four years ago”, since “we have barely recovered the employment data for 2019.”
Meanwhile, the PSOE spokesman, Javier Rodríguez, appreciated the work that has been done in the treatment of wastewater, the support for companies, the reorganization of the administration or the recovery of tourism, betting on “transparency and democratic hygiene”. .
For her part, the non-attached councilor María José Belda denounced that many people had been left out without being able to enter the plenary session as a public, while there were seats occupied by island directors or trusted personnel, a complaint supported by PP and CC.
