The president of Council of Tenerife, Pedro Martín, ends his presidency of the Fecai after six months in which he has highlighted the management of aid from all the islands to the island of La Palma, with an economic amount of 10 million euros and numerous human and material resources, transferring this position to the president of the Cabildo of El Hierro, Alpidio Arms. This has been agreed in the second point of the agenda of this Extraordinary Assembly the session of the Federation of Islands held this Tuesday in Madrid.
Martín told the media that “during these six months that I have had the honor of being president of the Federation of Islands, there have been very important advances. Advances that we have waited years for to finally be produced and, finally, they have arrived”, and added that “the first of them has been to get the file to be updated through which the Canary Islands Government has to contribute financially to the Cabildos for the road maintenance. But in addition, we have managed to close an agreement in relation to the transfers that the Government of the Canary Islands has made to the councils and whose financing was not up to date”.
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife concluded by recalling that “we have reached a principle of agreement on certain matters of the Fdcan, which are yet to be discussed in the near future, and I believe that in general we have made very important progress in matters that had not been resolved for years between the Government of the Canary Islands and the island councils and which, fortunately, during these last six months have been a undeniable progress”.
«More social role»
Alpidio Armas, incoming president, pointed out that “El Hierro assumes the presidency of Fecai for six months, in which my job as president will be to ensure that La Palma and the crisis generated by the volcano don’t forget in the next six months.”
“Besides – said Armas – I want to give this Fecai presidency a social character, I am concerned about social issues. It can’t be that we have dependence what we have. We have to coordinate all the Administrations, also the Cabildos and the municipalities, with the Government of the Canary Islands and the central Government and make a different proposal of how social issues are being addressed at this time”, for which, he concluded, his presidency will be It will focus on “three things: continue the work started and specify some of the measures; let us not forget La Palma, which is strengthened and taken into account in the agendas of the Fecai, the Government of the Canary Islands and the central Government; and give a social character to this new stage that begins here today in Fitur”.
In addition, the meeting addressed the report of the outgoing presidency regarding the activity carried out between July and December 2021, in which some important issues in the operation of the local island administration are discussed, such as the state of the financing of the island councils or the agreements related to the La Palma volcanic eruption. In this regard, Fecai agreed to grant urgent financial aid for 2021, for an amount of 10 million euros.
