The candidate of Canarian Coalition to the Presidency of the Cabildo of TenerifeRosa Dávila, warned this Friday that the Island continues to lose employment, as reflected in the Active Population Survey (EPA) carried out by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which has quantified 6,610 less employed people in the first quarter of 2023 than in the second quarter of 2019. The nationalist takes the latter period as a reference because it corresponds to the end of the CC stage at the head of the Tenerife Council.
“The difference between the last quarter of the Canary Islands Coalition in government and the first of 2023, with the PSOE, is devastating,” said Dávila. He explained that “in Tenerife there are 6,610 less employed people and 3,700 more unemployed without the Government of the Canary Islands or the Cabildo give any explanation in this regardeither”. In this sense, the nationalist candidate pointed out that the unemployment rate has also increased (+1%) in the comparison between the two periods “and, what is more worrying, there is an upward trend.”
“What policies are promoted in Tenerife when we see that in Gran Canaria, with which we can compare, there are 60,160 more employed people?” the candidate wondered aloud. That, she stressed, “puts us at a difference of more than 66,000 people.” For Dávila, the main reasons for this reality are that “in these four years the public and private investments of the Cabildo and the regional government have been paralyzed and the bureaucracy has prevented 4,000 million euros from being invested in Tenerife. This also destroys employment.
What policies are promoted if there are 60,000 more employed people in Gran Canaria?
For Cristina Valido, Tenerife’s candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands“we cannot understand that there is more leadership to ensure that the Islands develop at the same speed».
The government of Canary Islands, he valued, “you cannot look the other way because the loss of 13,000 jobs, especially in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is very worrying. They cannot discredit the study by coming from an official source.”
the opposite view
In the plenary session of the Cabildo this Friday, the insular director of Coordination and Support for the President, Aarón Afonso, qualified the EPA data, “a survey, after all.” The socialist, in debate with the nationalist spokesman, Carlos Alonso, assured that with the Social Security affiliation data “it can be verified that in Tenerife there are 31,000 more affiliated people than in 2019, when this mandate began.” He added: “And 10,000 fewer workers unemployed than then.” He pointed out that these are data as of March 31 and that “we will see what the evolution is when those for April are published on May 3.” He added: “Faced with a survey, I appeal to the real, statistical and true data that is published monthly, both on affiliation and on unemployment on the Island.” He concluded: “These data are much better than at the beginning of the mandate.” | JDM
