SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 22 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The councilor and insular spokesperson for Sí Podemos Canarias, María José Belda, announces that this Friday she is presenting a motion to the Plenary Highway Commission to ask the corporation to carry out a “real” citizen participation process with a popular consultation of binding character in which it is put to a vote if the population of Tenerife “is against or in favor” of the construction of the “unnecessary and destructive Motor Circuit”.
Belda declares in a note that this work, which will mean a “multimillion-dollar waste” of public money, “has been imposed on all the citizens of Tenerife by this government group, in what is a project originating from CC that is now perpetuated by PSOE and Cs with continuous policies that waste an intolerable amount of money from all the people of Tenerife and the people of Tenerife “.
The insular spokesperson also recalls that, in the programmatic agreements signed between Sí Podemos Canarias and the PSOE at the beginning of the mandate, “a point dedicated to the need to carry out processes of citizen participation for decision-making of the policies was expressly included. islands of special relevance, something that is clearly ideal to put into practice to determine the future of this project, given the social controversy and the rejection that the Motor Circuit is generating in the population”.
Sí Podemos Canarias requires that “the process of citizen participation be binding, and that it be convened by the Roads area of the Cabildo de Tenerife, manager of the project or, failing that, the one deemed pertinent, to comply with the programmatic agreement signed between the PSOE and Sí Podemos Canarias, with the corresponding publicity in the media, transparency and dissemination of the public expenditure that the Motor Circuit has meant to date and that the Motor Circuit would mean from now on, so that the population of Tenerife can demonstrate freely about their will to carry it out or not”.
María José Belda criticizes that Tenerife “suffers social and environmental needs of sufficient importance for the island government to go ahead with its efforts to waste millions of euros on the construction of this work, which, moreover, will foreseeably represent an economic burden for the future of the island, due to the unaffordable cost of maintenance that this gigantic infrastructure will have, which will ultimately have to be borne by the citizens of Tenerife”.
