SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputy of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands in Congress, Ana Zurita, stated this Monday that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Canary Coalition “should explain” why the decision announced by the nationalist party to “help” the Government in the General State Budgets for the next year.
Zurita thus responds to the agreement reached between the Socialist Executive and the Canary Coalition to improve the financial record of the islands in the state accounts for 2023, which includes free buses and the tram from January 1, and proposes “for why Sánchez has agreed to agree on a measure that he had previously refused and what other agreements have been reached in the face of next year’s regional and municipal elections”.
Everything points, indicates in a note, “that it is an electoral measure that deserves to be argued before the canaries.”
In this sense, the deputy for Santa Cruz de Tenerife recalls that her training has been demanding free intercity transport on the islands since last August, promoting motions in this regard in all institutions.
“The central government has always refused to equalize the conditions of the Canarians with respect to those of the citizens of the rest of the Spanish territory, subsequently giving in to subsidizing only 50% of the buses, thus generating a comparative grievance, and converting the Canarians into second-class citizens,” he said.
He also said that “in the General State Budgets, the Popular Party also proposed an amendment for free passenger transport by road throughout the Canary Islands, which the socialist government incomprehensibly vetoed, and now CC is trying to sell that it has achieved this agreement with Sánchez, ignoring that this measure could have been adopted much earlier if the PP amendments had been approved”.
With the gratuity starting in 2023, he indicates, “The Canary Islands are once again late and poorly at matching their conditions to the rest of the national territory, and all for partisan interests.”
For Zurita, “Sánchez is taking time to offer explanations to the citizens of the Archipelago, he established a measure that has meant a comparative offense and double discrimination, offering a differentiated treatment to the territories that have a railway over those that do not, such as the Canary Islands, which now he tries to correct trying to guarantee his agonizing permanence in La Moncloa”.
