«Rosa Davila announces trains that it does not budget. The phrase of Pedro Martinpresident of the Socialist Group in the Tenerife Council, summarizes the position regarding the draft island budget for 2024. The main force of the opposition presents an amendment to the entire accounts “due to its anti-municipalism and cuts in Equality and Diversity.” Other partial allegations reach a value of 47.5 million euros. Martín highlights that, “despite the constant announcements” of the president, “there are no items to promote trains or bus-vao lanes, or financial details in the mobility agreements with Ashotel, the ULL or transport businessmen.
The former president of the Cabildo (2019-2023) assures that “we are concerned about the regression in municipalism.” He adds that “programs such as municipal service offices are diluted in these budgets.” He lists shortcomings such as “not taking into account the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (Fecam) in the territorial distribution.” He also “brakes the drive for digital modernization of local corporations,” since “IT support is reduced by more than 40%.” Martín emphasizes “a program of employment which in three years moved 54 million euros. “Only with the municipalities we launched projects for more than 29 million and now, it goes to zero.”
In the Primary Sector, summarizes the leader of the PSOE“marketing structures, markets for local products decrease by 82.3%, rural development decreases by 13.2% and support for fishermen, by 4.1%.”
In tourism, he explains, “there is an increase in advertising and promotion, but promoting the destination involves regenerating tourist spaces. In this there is a decrease of 10.5%. Tenerife and the Sea, which arose to regenerate and recover the coastline of the Island, «dropped 45.2%. A project that CC created and we promoted positively.
Pedro Martín laments: “We are concerned about the social area, because Diversity, support for LGTBIQ groups, drops by 52%, and Equality by 9%.”
Regarding mobility, he emphasizes: “We are surprised by these two parallel paths, propaganda and results.” He remembers that “we will not have the Padre Anchieta walkway until 2025.” The president seems, according to Martín, to “give up on the roads” because “investments in them decrease by 11%.” She emphasizes that “she says she is committed to guided transportation. However, for the southern train there is no departure and for the northern one, 50,000 euros, in an investment that could mean more than 3,000 million. She talks about a tram to Tenerife North Airport, but with zero euros. The socialist expresses his “surprise” at the 15,000 euros for bus-vao lanes: “It will give us enough to put up cones, signs and some advertisements.”
«It is evident that Tenerife has a problem in mobility, but that of a president who only advertises is greater»concludes the socialist Pedro Martín.
«634 million euros unexecuted»
CC and PP yesterday recalled the “disastrous management” of the PSOE and Pedro Martín in the Cabildo, “where they stopped executing more than 634 million euros.” Popular and nationalists emphasize the “sectarian investment of the socialists” among the municipalities during the last mandate that “generated a great imbalance on the Island.” The groups that make up the insular Government point out that in the last two years of the socialist government “240 million euros were not invested.” They add that “when we said that the Island had a lack of leadership, we were referring precisely to this type of things. “It is not that there was no money, but that Pedro Martín and the PSOE did not work to have a strong Cabildo.” The reflection of CC and PP is that “the socialists were more concerned with destroying than creating.” They refer to the official data of the Treasury area between 2019 and 2022, which includes the budget execution of the previous government group. Thus, «in 2019, 136 million euros were not implemented, while in 2020 the figure rose to 171 million; In 2021 it reached 169 million, while in 2022 the PSOE stopped executing 158 million. Another example of “the poor management of the PSOE” was its “sectarian and unbalanced investment” between the municipalities, with accounts that “generated inequality and only responded to a sectarian political criterion”, such as “benefiting those governed by the PSOE».
