SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 8 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, has admitted this Tuesday that if there is no legal change in relation to the composition of the Board of Directors of Aena there will be no possibility of co-management of the island airports.
In response to a question from the Nationalist Group in the control session of Parliament, he specified that article 161.2 of the Statute of Autonomy technically speaks of the “participation” of the Canary Islands, but in any case, he indicated that the Government had already submitted its request at the time of José Luis Ábalos as Minister of Transport.
Thus, it was studied that the process has been “complicated” since Aena was privatized and 49% remained in private hands, a fact that the PSOE rejected in Parliament because they knew that it was going to “limit” the capacity of the Canary Islands.
However, he has said that they continue “working” with the Ministry to undertake the pertinent changes.
Narvay Quintero (CC-PNC-AHI) has lamented that the central government says that co-management “is not feasible” –according to a written response to a nationalist deputy– when the Canary Islands are the region “with the most sense” to participate in the management of the airport manager, giving as an example its refusal to enable Covid spaces in airports, as requested by the regional government.
Likewise, he has said that in the DORA until 2026 the investment in Canarian airports is “half” that in the Balearic Islands when they are “strategic” infrastructures for the mobility of Canarians and tourism and “it is unfortunate that the Government closes the door” .
