Ramón Trujillo, spokesman for Unidas Podemos (Izquierda Unida, Podemos, Equo) in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, “congratulates” the Canary Islands Coalition for having recently boasted, on municipal billboards, of having invested in the neighborhoods of Santa Cruz 17 million euros, when in the electoral campaign he had announced an investment of 200 million. For the progressive spokesperson, it is an “unheard of propaganda achievement” to be able to boast of having fulfilled 8.5% of an electoral promise and, therefore, also boast of having broken 91.5% of that promise.
The UP councilor expressed his “concern about the deterioration of the democratic climate which, for the municipality, means that a political force can boast a ridiculous level of compliance with its promises without this generating debate. Normally, when governments break their promises, they try not to talk about it.”
Likewise, Trujillo recalls that the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, widely publicized his claim to obtain 619 million Next Generation funds and announced that they could create more than 7,000 direct jobs and more than 37,000 indirect ones. That would have meant Santa Cruz got $88 million in each year of the Next Generation program. However, the data for the first two years show that, instead of 88 million, an annual average of 13 million was achieved, that is, “15% of the million euros dreamed of by Bermúdez’s propaganda.”
Trujillo affirms that the Canarian Coalition in Santa Cruz de Tenerife “celebrates an April Fool’s Day every week issuing empty promises or repeating unfulfilled promises; This is how a feeling of hyperactivity in management is generated, a feeling that propagandistically hides the deficiencies in this matter”.
