“We ask for four more years to consolidate good management from the public sphere”

Pedro Martín Domínguez (Guía de Isora, 1965) is the socialist candidate to re-edit the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, which he has held since 2019. He asks for the support of the citizenry to complete the <>. He presents as endorsements << the best employment data in years >> or the impulse to end the dumping of sewage into the sea.

Why do the people of Tenerife have to vote for Pedro Martín?

For a responsible management of public money, for facing management in very difficult times and for having prioritized what is important: employment, attention to the most disadvantaged groups and economic generation. Hence the new tourism policies and the impulse, seriously and without propaganda, to the primary sector.

Is there anything you think your tenure will be remembered for?

Probably for doing environmental work in capital letters. On the one hand, the great transformation when it comes to eliminating the discharge of wastewater into the sea; on the other, the establishment of a new model in the treatment of garbage or multiplying the volume of cubic meters available to farmers. Also the start of renewable energy projects. And, finally, for a different way of promoting the tourism sector based on connectivity and spending at the destination, and not so much on the number of people. There is a lot of work left to do. The stoppage of the pandemic affected us a lot, but we have laid the foundations for solutions in very important matters. First, close agreements with the Government of the Canary Islands to develop highway projects, which did not exist. We have also paved the way for the development and improvement of hospitals in the North and South. Now we have to consolidate those achievements and that is why we ask for the support of the citizenry.

He has insisted on putting order in the house. Wasn’t there in the 69 dependent companies?

In the case of the Cabildo companies, there were repeated reports from the Intervention that year after year neither the Contract Law nor the labor legislation were complied with and there was great laxity in the use of public money. We have provided rigor to comply with all regulations and implemented criteria to respect the rights of workers or regularized economic holes of millions of euros in dependent companies. And we have not given up in the courts, in the face of the disinterest of previous governments, in fighting to recover money from the Cabildo. In relation to a financial product, against the company in charge of reforming the facade or with the state. We try to manage human resources well, comply with the law and fight for the public money interests of the people of Tenerife. With foundation, as they told me in my house, that I want to transmit to the citizen and apply in the management.

Another of his ‘mantras’ from municipalism refers to the territorial balance of the Island.

It is about recovering the essence with which the Cabildos were born. Trying to help small municipalities and equalize opportunities for everyone on the Island. That had been lost with capricious and very presidential approaches when it came to distributing money and resources. We have promoted special cooperation plans for municipalities with up to 20,000 inhabitants and many do not have PSOE governments. An itinerant support office or the distribution of money for employment projects agreed with mayors and mayors, in an equitable manner. To go together in this common project called Tenerife and it cannot have different speeds. The capital must be a reference and hence the involvement in the Valleseco beach or the transfer of the Refinery.

Has administrative modernization been an achievement?

We are committed to administrative simplification for citizens and companies. With the suppression of more than one hundred model forms and the reduction of paperwork in procedures. The intention is to continue the work the next mandate with a premise: simplify, simplify and simplify.

Your bet on social and socio-sanitary policies?

In 2019 there were 191 million for Social Policies, while in 2023 there are 261; that is, 70 more. For us, unlike CC, the policy for the elderly is not just leisure and free time, where you have to count on the town halls. That is why we have distributed among them one million euros for activities. But new services are needed for single people, for example. It is the sense of creating residential socio-sanitary places for the elderly and people with disabilities, more than a thousand telecare, care for homelessness, coexistence centers or those for prostituted women. Thus up to 32 new resources created. A model in which people with difficulties do not adapt to the administration but to the different problems of citizenship. Multiplying support for associations that work with others and are doing so well.

The economy, its engine, tourism, and employment.

At the end of the mandate we have 33,700 more people working than when we arrived; registered with Social Security, not in a survey. CC compares with Gran Canaria, but does not say that there are 28,576 more people working here than on the neighboring island. Regarding tourism, spending per visitor is 39% of the total in the Canary Islands and 30.4% in Gran Canaria. The difference is 430 million euros. We promote employment programs never seen before or Dual Training, through agreements with 64 companies on the Island.

Open to deals? Do you trust to govern whether or not you win the elections on 28M?

If I am going to govern or not, the citizens will decide on Sunday. I am a dialoguing person, who avoids tension or insults. We were able to close agreements with Podemos and the PP to approve the budgets always based on an electoral program. Knowing what we want to do in Tenerife and what not, regardless of the distribution of positions. My main rival is CC because when we arrived we changed a model of managing and managing public money. We have a different way of understanding the Island and it is the force from which we are furthest away. I do not understand the ways of some of its leaders. From kicking my ass to calling me a potato chip. I do not share this language because the people of Tenerife are not lacking and it only serves to inflame the political debate and take it to the streets. CC voters, whom I respect, don’t deserve it.