Canarian Coalition of Puerto de la Cruz demanded the mayor of the municipality, Marco González (PSOE), to resign for not suspending the Phe Festival during the fire that hit the island of Tenerife for 10 days. During the municipal plenary session, the nationalist spokesman, Alonso Acevedo, lamented the “disastrous performance” of the mayor for “refusing to suspend the festival during the weekend of August 18, 19 and 20, days in which the fire devastated thousands of hectares of the island and caused thousands to be evicted.
During those days, “and despite criticism from thousands of residents, not only from Puerto de la Cruz, but from the rest of the island, The socialist mayor refused to suspend these festive events, demonstrating once again that he decides to govern with his back to the citizens.». In this sense, Alonso detailed during the plenary session that the municipal engineer “did not report on the documentation presented, such as the self-protection plan, because the organization took too long to deliver the documentation and to correct errors in the documentation already presented. Despite this, the mayor approved the festival as being essential for the revitalization of the city. This means that he lied in an interview with the people of Portuá saying that he could not suspend the festival when he came to authorize it on the same day, August 17.
The nationalist hopes that the PSOE’s government partner in the municipality, the Portuense Citizen Assembly (ACP), “will not continue supporting.” «Finally – continued the CC spokesperson – it was on the 17th when the celebration was authorized with 3,273 hectares burned in 8 municipalities, including Santa Úrsula and La Orotava, which were the closest at that time to Puerto de la Cruz, with a perimeter of 40 kilometers, 3,069 people evacuated and 3,820 people confined in La Esperanza.
Alonso also recalled during the plenary session that the nationalists were the first to demand that the mayor rectifypublishing on Saturday, August 19 on social networks the Canarian Coalition’s total rejection of the decisions of the socialist mayor.
«That day (Saturday the 19th) we still had hope in the Canarian Coalition that the mayor would reconsider and summon all the political forces to together look for solutions to the problems that would arise for the promoter due to the cancellation of the Festival, but the only thing that “We received was the economic argument as an excuse to do absolutely nothing, and, as usual, without giving the option of dialogue,” he said.
The spokesperson for the Canary Coalition reiterated that the only person responsible for “not suspending the concerts has been and is the mayor, Marco González; For this reason, we demand that he resign from his position for not being up to the standards of a municipality like Puerto de la Cruz or its neighbors. He also denounced the mayor’s “lack of transparency,” since “access to the complete festival file was requested, and having passed the five calendar days established to grant access to the files, it has still not been possible to access it.” .
