This pronouncement comes after a meeting of CC de Tenerife leaders with representatives of Ashotel, CEOE, Chamber of Commerce, Círculo de Empresarios del Sur de Tenerife (CEST) and Foro Amigos del Sur de Tenerife (FAST). In addition to Bermúdez, the meeting was attended by the Secretary for the Organization of the Tenerife CC and regional deputy, Rosa Dávila; the nationalist island councilors Carlos Alonso and Diana Mora, as well as the mayor of Granadilla, José Domingo Regalado.
Lose competitiveness
With the 28th as a reference to being the date of approval of the document by the Council of Ministers, at the meeting they concluded the need to establish a unanimous position of the political, social and economic sectors to demand that AENA that includes the construction of the terminal in DORA 2022-2026. Bermúdez defends that “we cannot wait for the next one”, to be developed in the period 2027-2031. “Tenerife cannot lose competitiveness and needs an infrastructure appropriate to the quality of the destination we have.”
Rosa Dávila recalled the profitability of the Reina Sofía as the third airport in passenger numbers » and more than 100 million benefits a year. “There is no excuse not to invest here.” In his opinion, “what is needed is will on the part of AENA” since “three years ago we achieved an agreement from all the political forces and social and economic agents of the Island. This was reflected in technical documents that AENA has, for what that work is done and we do not start from scratch ».
Carlos Alonso alluded to the celebration of the extraordinary plenary session requested (since mid-August) by the Canary Coalition in the Council (will take place at 12:00 on Monday) to address this matter. He explained that “our objective is to achieve an institutional agreement.” Although the approval of the Airport Regulation Document will take place during the last week of this month, the island councilor believes that “we are in time to demand that AENA not exclude Tenerife from its investments for the period 2022-2026” and recalled that the Insular Corporation adopted a unanimous agreement in 2018 in defense of building a new terminal. “We reach out to all political forces to go together and claim the infrastructure we need at the South Airport.”
The national deputy Ana Zurita assures that the Popular Party has requested the appearance of the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda “to clarify, among other aspects, the investment forecasts in Tenerife South”, where it has demanded the construction of the terminal “Based on the agreements reached for inclusion in DORA II”.
“Disrespect”
He accuses the central government of “lack of respect” for not forwarding the text to the political groups prior to its approval and denounces that “we know nothing about the government plans in the face of a commitment assumed not only by the State, but the Cabildo de Tenerife and Government of Canarias ». The popular say they suspect that this agreement “has been breached with the approval of the Tenerife Council, since the resulting document would have to have passed through the Canary Islands Airport Regulation Committee”, made up of the Regional Executive, the Council, town councils and entities business and social. If so, Zurita accuses the Government of the Canary Islands of being “an accomplice of this laziness and of the breach of the agreement that had been reached with the Cabildo.”
The PP deputy concludes by stating the requirement that «DORA II reflects the needs of the south of Tenerife and that a true plan be projected from the State that is capable of reactivating our municipalities and our tourism industry.
