SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Socialist Group in the Tenerife Cabildo revealed on Tuesday that it will request clarification regarding the 1.2 million euros that the governing coalition (CC-PP) intends to approve in the forthcoming plenary session to support the ‘Esland’ awards, initiated by ‘youtuber’ TheGrefg.
The socialists highlight in a statement that the prominent ‘influencer’ previously engaged in a “contentious ascent of Teide” supported by the island’s president, Rosa Dávila, “overlooking the protocols that other residents of Tenerife are obligated to follow.”
They stress that “the cable car, which was not operational due to adverse weather conditions, was made available and was even communicated to the island’s director of the Natural Environment, Pedro Millán, all without formal authorisation.”
In the same month, November 2023, Rosa Dávila shared images with the ‘influencer’ stating “I won’t say anything, but there will be signs”, prompting the socialists to call for her to appear in an extraordinary plenary session where she denied that this favourable treatment would lead to any compensatory measures.
Moreover, in July of this year, the ‘youtuber’ indicated that he was contemplating discontinuing the awards due to their lack of profitability, incurring losses of around a million euros with them, a “figure close” to the credit modification that Rosa Dávila’s Government plans to approve next week.
The president of the Socialist Group in the Cabildo and general secretary of the PSOE of Tenerife, Pedro Martín, has remarked that to the “contentious preferential treatment” highlighted last year by numerous groups, now comes the potential to allocate “directly” a significant sum of public funds to an ‘influencer’ who has established his tax residence in Andorra “to evade contributing his earnings to the public sector in Spain, a stance that is rewarded by the Cabildo’s president with hundreds of thousands of euros of public finances.”
The PSOE expresses concern that yet again, the Cabildo president “utilises the funds of all Tenerife residents for promotion”, emphasising the “favourable treatment” afforded to TheGrefg, who shared a video on social platforms claiming that “a boss of the Cabildo” had activated the cable car even though it was shut.
He subsequently consumed a banana, proclaiming it was from the Canary Islands, “a promotional tactic for the island like we haven’t encountered before,” stated Pedro Martín.
