The candidate for the Congress of Deputies for Canarian CoalitionCristina Valido, has denounced that in the final stretch of the Government and before the Elections Generals, the Minister of Tourism, Héctor Gómez, “presumes” the plan to develop the works of the new airport terminal Tenerife South “when they have done it late and badly, and those jobs will not end until 2031.”
In a statement, the nationalist recalled that both political and social forces “have been demanding that these improvements have been included in the DORA 2022-2026 Airport Regulation Document, and the inaction of the PSOEboth in the Government of the Canary Islands as in the Cabildo de Tenerife, they had them transferred to DORA 2027-2031″.
“And badly,” he continued, “because they have accepted that score in the specifications of the project tender, the most competitive price instead of the highest quality offer“.
Valido added that all this in a framework in which the State Government continues to “ignore” the rights “that we have acquired in Canary Islands after the approval of the Statute of Autonomy, which in its article 161 establishes that the Autonomous Community must participate in the co-management of airports, forming part of the AENA board of directors”.
He insisted here that if this assumption of powers does not take place, AENA will continue to make decisions about our airports without counting on the exceptional characteristics that we experience in the Archipelago and without reversing the great benefits that these facilities entail in improving their service and management.
Thus, Valido also denounced it in recent days, in meetings with the CEST del Sur and with the representatives of the Spanish air traffic controllers, “because the circumstance also occurs that It is the intention of the State to privatize the control towers of Tenerife and Gran Canariawhich would result in higher costs, deficient internal functioning and discomfort of the workers”.
“I don’t even want to think about what could happen in the Canary Islands if a labor conflict between controllers could stop our main instrument of social cohesion and economic development such as airports in its tracks,” he concluded.
