Ramón Trujillo, spokesman for Unidas Podemos in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, congratulates the Canary Islands Coalition for having recently boasted, on municipal billboards, of having invested 17 million euros in the neighborhoods of Santa Cruz, when in the electoral campaign there were 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, and head of the list of the confluence made up of Izquierda Unida, Podemos and Sí se puede for the 28M elections, under the name of United Sí Podemos, expresses his “concern about the deterioration of the democratic climate that, for the municipality , supposes that a political force can boast of a ridiculous level of fulfillment of 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 from 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”.
On the other hand, the confluence led by Trujillo held this Wednesday the first of the workshops with which it intends to collect the suggestions of the chicharreros to complete its electoral program.
