The mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerifethe nationalist Jose Manuel Bermudez, wants to make it clear that, despite the fact that he continues to maintain that “no party that defends the capital should support the Cabildo’s budget, because it is unfair to the chicharreros”, the government pact in the City Council between the CC and the PP, and of which The mayor of Cs Evelyn Alonso is also part of it, she is not in any danger. In this way, the alderman responds to the declarations of the PP spokesman in the Consistory and Councilor for Public Services, Carlos Tarife, who has stated, through ELDÍA, that his party will not allow Bermúdez to say what he should vote for in the Island Corporation. It must be remembered that the PSOE and the PP in the Cabildo closed an agreement last night that will allow the insular president, Pedro Martín, to approve the insular accounts in plenary session next Friday.
José Manuel Bermúdez indicated that the PP in the Cabildo is free to do what it considers, but, he insists, if the budget of the insular Corporation is approved as it was presented last week by the PSOE and Cs, said party “would be supporting some accounts that discriminate against this municipality, the capital of the Island, placing it at the same level, in terms of distribution, as Fasnia ». «We are talking about the Cabildo only assigning to Santa Cruz de Tenerife next year 5.4 million euros, when, for example, it allocates 24 million to La Laguna, placing us at the bottom of the list in terms of investments,” he added.
“To put the interests of the city before the party acronym, you have to have personality”
But this, he adds, has nothing to do with the government pact that “we have in the City Council, although, I repeat, a party that defends Santa Cruz should not support the Cabildo budgets as they are.” “Another thing is that they manage to change them,” he pointed out.
In this sense, the PP spokesman in the Chicharrero Consistory has affirmed that his party in the Island Corporation is negotiating with the Government team the approval of the budgets for 2023, a negotiation that came to fruition last night. “We have presented an important block of amendments that we hope will be approved.” Likewise, Tarife has also taken the opportunity to point out that the Cabildo has always been unfair to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, “so this not only happens with the PSOE ruling; It also happened when I was Canarian Coalition». These statements were made hours before the PP confirmed that it is going to give its approval to the island accounts after the PSOE accepted its main amendments.
The nationalist mayor assures that he has always raised his voice when he has considered that the Tenerife Council has been unfair to the capital, regardless of who was governing. “You have to have enough personality to put the interests of the city above the initials of the party,” José Manuel Bermúdez wanted to make clear.
