The mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Marco Gonzalez (PSOE), regrets “the ways of doing politics of Canarian Coalition” which, in his opinion, “again misrepresents and lies without any scruple about the municipal budget”. He qualifies as “petty and miserable” the alleged “lies of CC”, and censures “the intention that is no longer hidden by its spokesperson and former Councilor for Culture, Sandra Rodriguezof wanting to compare and confront investment in culture with what is budgeted in Social Services, in addition to misrepresenting the figures in a crude attempt to find the easy and lying headline.
For Mark Gonzalez It is “extremely serious from every point of view this folly that shows, over and over again, an irresponsible politician who became mayor for a few months, for confronting two areas that are so sensitive for Puerto Rican society.” In a harsh statement, the socialist president is outraged: “I am very ashamed to read over and over again the statements that are made by the opposition trying to question the work that has been done since the culture area”.
The Mayor insists that all municipal areas, including of course the area of Social Law, “Are sufficiently endowed in the municipal budget and that work will continue from the beginning Porto City Council so that, in the face of any circumstance that may arise and more so in the hard times that we have been experiencing for two years with the pandemic, they can be supplemented in a timely manner.”
“What I do ask of the opposition, and more specifically of the one who was once mayor and also responsible for Culture, is that stop doing petty and miserable politics using the city’s Culture sector as a tool, which has the same right as the others to be included in the budget, whether we are in time of a pandemic or not”, concludes González.
“If what you question is the financing of the Local Autonomous Organization (OAL), which includes the School of Music or the budget of the Archaeological Museum, two leading institutions of the city, to say so openly and thus we can have a public debate on whether it is worth it for a city like Cross port offer these community services to citizens”, González remarks.
“Which Sandra Rodríguez are we left with, the one asking for cuts or the one asking us to help the Carnival sector?”
the socialist leader also requires the CC spokesperson, a political formation that has two councilors in the municipal plenary session, which “practices consistency with respect to the amendments to the budget, because while it asks that Culture be cut or that we not celebrate the identity events of this city, it demands that Let’s subsidize the carnival groups. With what Sandra Rodriguez Are we staying, with the one that asks for cuts or with the one that asks us to help the Carnival sector? ”, the mayor wonders.
Mark Gonzalez also reminds the nationalist spokesperson that “in her mandate at the head of Culture, and in particular with the grimace festival, bequeathed to the municipality a disaster of inoperative management and with its back to the sector that has cost the municipality 120,000 euros of income from the Cabildo, which could not be received in both 2020 and 2021, assuming in this exercise the 305,000 euros that the Festival in 2019, since the nationalist spokeswoman did not know how to celebrate it and the island institution had to come to her aid.”
