The president, Rosa Dávila, guarantees work “side by side” of both administrations so that Tenerife regains leadership in the Canary Islands
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, and the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, have agreed on Wednesday a joint ‘road map’ for this legislature in which the improvement of mobility, the construction of squares will be prioritized sociosanitary and hydraulic works.
In statements to journalists after the meeting, Dávila advanced that both administrations are going to work “hand in hand” so that the island regains the “political, institutional and economic weight” lost in the last four years and that thus improve the “quality of life” of citizens.
The president has valued the “special sensitivity” of Clavijo for starting the round of institutional visits to the councils in Tenerife in order to approach the “most pressing problems”, which is why she sees the regional Executive as “a great ally” for the future of the island.
Dávila has insisted on “working together hand in hand” because “problems don’t know about skills” and in Tenerife “results and solutions” are needed.
Thus, he has said that the socio-sanitary plan “was paralyzed” in the past term and new places were not launched, which has generated a “collapse” in the health system because many people go to the Emergency services.
For this reason, he has pointed out that they are going to “reactivate” the plan that “was signed” in Clavijo’s first stage as Canarian president.
Regarding mobility, he commented that the Government will be a “great ally” to implement measures that help to “mitigate” traffic jams given its powers in services and public works while assuming that the control of discharges into the sea is a “pending task” that needs to be addressed.
Likewise, he has stressed that the central government “owes millions of euros to the Canary Islands to face the serious problem of drought” and for this reason he has called on Clavijo to be “demanding” with the Executive to improve the water supply and irrigation.
Regarding energy, he has defended his commitment to give a “boost” to renewable energies, for which an agreement with the central government is required so that the island reaches its maximum capacity given that Tenerife “has been falling behind “.
In this sense, he has affirmed that they are going to put ITER (Technological Institute of Renewable Energies) back “as a vanguard example of new information technologies and the introduction of renewable energies”.
CLAVIJO SAYS THAT IT IS STARTING “ON A GOOD FOOT”
Clavijo has indicated that “it starts off on the right foot”, with a work plan that includes the “priorities” of the island, lamenting that they inherit “the same problems” from four years ago or even “more serious because they have not been resolved”. , the case of the socio-sanitary field, weighed down by an “obvious setback”.
He has said that in this new Legislature “it does not distinguish who the competition is” but that it is necessary to “sit down to work” if there is “a problem”.
Thus, he commented that in the face of a very dry summer they are going to “miss” the works of the hydraulic works agreement agreed with the State for an amount of 900 million and that “has been breached” in the last five years. “If it had been done, we would be talking about another situation,” he stressed.
Clavijo has indicated that “there is not a minute to lose” even though the convocation of the Generals is “a difficulty” since it will take time to form the teams of the ministries and the dialogue will be slower.
Regarding inherited road planning, he commented that projects approved “in the middle of the campaign and at the last minute” is not a “very correct” way -in reference to the expansion of the TF-5– of facing the problems and it is it is, instead, the great meeting called by the president with all the sectors involved to improve mobility.
AFONSO: THE PSOE LEAVES A “COLLAPSE” IN SOCIO-SANITARY PLACES
The vice president of the Cabildo, Lope Afonso, has highlighted the “determined will” of the Canarian Government to “cooperate” in the search for solutions to the problems of the island in order for Tenerife to recover “leadership” in the Canary Islands.
Thus, he has said that “a stage with a fluid and effective relationship begins” in which both administrations go “hand in hand and for all”, with special emphasis on the “inheritance” left by the previous island government with the “collapse” of socio-sanitary infrastructures.
According to Afonso, there is an “indecent” waiting list with more than 7,000 families waiting for a socio-sanitary resource, so this is the first priority on the work table of the Minister of Social Action, Águeda Fumero.
