SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, has admitted this Tuesday “personal and political” reasons for the resignation of Fernando Miñarro as general director of Educational Infrastructures and has called on the Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) to propose his replacement.
“I am waiting,” he indicated in the control session in response to questions from NC-BC and PSOE, underlining that his department is now executing the budget that supported the Gomera party in the last Legislature.
The council has indicated “loud and clear” that Miñarro “has done a good job” in the little less than three months that he has been in charge of the general direction and in the face of the “catastrophic situation” in which many educational centers in the islands, has announced that they are preparing a new plan to help improve the facilities.
Suárez has specified that the relationship between PP and ASG is “magnificent”, something that he was able to verify in a recent visit to La Gomera in which he met with the president of the Cabildo, Casimiro Curbelo, and the mayors of the island and the “need to improve” facilities.
“We must all pitch in,” he noted, and the regional government’s intention is to “attack” this problem.
He has also said that the resignation has nothing to do with the delays in the works to adapt the educational centers for students from zero to three years because the competence of the general management was withdrawn and he has indicated that the department has “all” the resources complete human resources except for two service headquarters that have to be published.
“The deadlines are what they are, I’m not going to skip any deadline, don’t ask me that, neither you nor anyone else,” he explained.
Suárez has also admitted that budget execution in educational infrastructure “is painful” but understands that in three months at the head of the Ministry it is not possible to “execute what has not been done.”
He has also indicated that he is not going to enter into an “unnecessary war” over the resignation since the underlying problem in the educational infrastructures is that “they are obsolete” and in the eight islands.
NC-BC SEES THE CHALLENGE OF IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURES “CURRENT”
Carmen Hernández (NC-BC) has indicated that it is a “serious assertion” that Miñarro says that he is leaving the Government because he has “nothing to do”, and even more so in a Government “that is beginning its journey” and that faces the “challenge “educational infrastructures in poor condition and that have become “chronic.”
He has detailed that 40% of the centers are more than 40 years old, many do not comply with electrical or accessibility regulations, there are barracks and there is also a lack of adaptation to climate change. “The challenge is pressing,” she highlighted.
Hernández has wondered if there is a “political disagreement” between the government partners given that the positions “have crossed” and “it seems that what matters is seeing how power is distributed.”
Marcos Hernández, of the Socialist Group, has commented that there are “few” personal criteria in Miñarro’s resignation “and there are management criteria” and has raised whether his departure is due to the “delay” in the execution of the works for the two-a-side plazas. three years, or the shadow zone plan.
In his opinion, the resignation “is a political issue, not a personal one”, and he has also asked “what interests there may be” around the modification of regulations and contracting tables. “You must give some more explanation,” he snapped at the counselor.
