SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) and mayor of La Orotava, Francisco Linares, gave this Monday a ultimatum to the island councils as well as to the Government of the Canary Islands for “transport to be free in the Canary Islands as in the rest of Spain”.
“They have 15 days left until January 1, 2023, as in the rest of Spain, transport is free in the Canary Islands. No excuses”warned one of the leaders of the nationalist party, who managed to include this measure in the 2023 General State Budget during negotiations with the central government to achieve parliamentary approval.
For Linares, what CC achieved was a “commitment to equality” for the Canaries with respect to the rest of Spaniards, because it is “simply inconceivable” that in the rest of the country transport is “free and in the Canary Islands we would be paying 50 percent”.
So, he warned the administrations responsible for its application, stop “problems and inconveniences”: “They are there to govern and to govern is to look for solutions. And there are, they have known it for 2 months. Buy more buses and hire more people.”
“Let them get their act together because governing is not making excuses or hiding one’s head in the face of an emergency situation with inflation through the roof,” he said in a digital interview on the “A buenas horas” program, in which he also spoke about the traffic jams on the island of Tenerife, what was pointed out by Fepeco about fights caused by them; of Cristina Valido and her possible candidacy for El Rosario City Council (Tenerife); and he criticized those who have turned politics into a “circus” of unjustified complaints that only slow down the functioning of justice and discredit politics.
