SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 19. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, defended this Tuesday the budget of the autonomous community because it allows us to begin to “put the house in order” with the calculation of real spending, while NC-BC has reproached him for failing to comply with several laws.
In the control session he said that the budget does not violate “any law”, since in the specific case of culture, for example, the time horizon is 2030 and the previous Government, as of June 30, had executed 25% of the Culture budget and the current one is already at 56%.
He has defended the new “budgetary techniques” because “they are more honest with citizens” given that together with the Chamber he will be able to monitor compliance at the end of the year.
In the specific case of Lanzarote, he has reproached the ‘Flower Pact’ for the fact that in four years “they stopped executing 146 million” because “there were no projects” from the Cabildo “nor a Government with the will” to develop the island, something that the new president , Oswaldo Bethencourt, yes he is going to do it. “Those things hurt, it’s obvious,” he commented.
Luis Campos, spokesperson for NC-BC, has told the president that “there is no worse blind person than someone who does not want to see” given that the budgets do not comply, in his opinion, with the laws of education, culture and social services, plus the plans of cooperation or R&D strategy.
In his opinion, it is a “consummate nonsense” that establishes a budget with “imbalances and cuts”, emphasizing that “real spending is a story” since many of the mayors of his party do not budget for real spending.
He has also said that the accounts “mistreat” Lanzarote, which has been relegated to fifth place in budget execution.
