Trujillo (Unidas Podemos) sees the project as “unpresentable” and Patricia Hernández (PSOE) questions a “fantasy” economic report
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The plenary session of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has rejected this Friday, with the votes against the local government –CC, PP and the councilor Evelyn Alonso– and in favor of PSOE, Cs and Unidas Podemos, the creation of a commission of investigation to clarify the negotiation to implant the ‘Rodin Museum’ in the city, finally ruled out by the promoters of Paris themselves.
The spokesman for Unidas Podemos and promoter of the motion, Ramón Trujillo, has criticized the “lack of transparency” in the processing of the project and believes that the investigation commission is pertinent so that this case is not reproduced in similar initiatives.
He has said that almost 40,000 euros have been spent on a project that has been truncated and questioned whether economic feasibility reports were requested from three people with professional ties between them.
He has questioned the “failures” of other ‘Rodin Museums’ in other parts of the world and has relied on the manifesto signed by the cultural sector to warn of the infeasibility of an economic return on an investment of 16 million euros, with “fantastic” forecasts “.
Trujillo has indicated that it would be a “non-refundable” investment and would need new economic contributions for the museum to remain open and he does not understand how the appraisal report could “sneak” into the City Council through a company in suspension of payments and judicial liquidation.
In his opinion, both reports, both the economic viability and the appraisal, have been “botched”, apart from the fact that the economic impact forecasts were made before being commissioned. “It is an unpresentable project”, he has summarized himself.
Matilde Zambudio, spokesperson for Cs, has commented that the local government has left “many things unresolved” after the suspension of the project, has criticized that it was processed urgently and has asked if there were other alternatives to this museum. “The project is nonsense,” she added.
Patricia Hernández (PSOE) has criticized that the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, without “being an economist”, knew the economic impact of the project without having commissioned it, and like Trujillo, he criticized the fact that three offers were sought from three professionals linked to the job.
He has said that the use of European funds for the project was ruled out because the audit of the ‘Next Generation’ “is higher” and regretted that “everyone has received” from a project that is not finally going to be carried out.
“Many people have received a royalty with something that was not,” he said.
Hernández has described as “wonderful” that the Councilor for the Treasury, Juan José Martínez, knows “more about art” than the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of La Laguna (ULL), has described the economic report as “fantasy”. and claimed that it was the cultural sector, not the opposition “who stopped” the project “unanimously” and despite the “calls” from the CC environment to representatives of culture to position themselves.
CC: THE OPPOSITION HAS REMAINED “WITHOUT THEME AND WITHOUT ARGUMENTS”
Martínez has regretted that the city has lost a project that was going to generate economic activity and employment and strengthen its international image, but he understands that the opposition has also lost because it has run out “without a topic and without arguments.”
It has made PSOE and Unidas Podemos ugly so that they ask for an investigation commission in the City Council when they even denied the debate in Parliament on the ‘mask case’ — “doesn’t their face fall with shame?” Why have they not asked for one about the Carnival stage contracts, during the government of Patricia Hernández, which are in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office.
He has warned of the “reputational cost” for the city of the campaign of “lies” about the ‘Rodin Museum’ when there were original and unpublished works and the project was presented to the entire cultural community of the capital with “total transparency”.
However, he hopes that through the ideas contest called for the Viera Clavijo, another cultural project of international relevance to Santa Cruz de Tenerife can be obtained.
The spokesman for the PP, Carlos Tarife, has defended that his group always defended that the project come out with the “consensus” of the cultural sector and has made the opposition ugly that does not support investigative commissions in other institutions and here look for one “when there is no case neither”.
