The Cabildo will take before the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations the removal of the Monument to Franco, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. María José Belda, a non-attached director, presented this proposal among the ten that she brought to the State of the Island Debate yesterday. She did it because “the eviction has been paralyzed.” It should be remembered that the City Council of the capital decided not to execute the removal of the work of Juan de Ávalos, located on the Rambla, until the catalog of the vestiges of Francoism prepared by the Government of the Canary Islands.
Belda’s initiative was supported by the PSOE and Sí Podemos Canary Islandsit was rejected by the Popular Party and citizenswhile Canarian Coalition – Carmen Delia Alberto was absent due to illness – abstained (6-14-10).
Belda considers the situation of the Monument “to exalt the dictator Francisco Franco” “inexplicable”. Its objective is that “the Law of Democratic Memory that recognizes the right to moral reparation and the recovery of the personal and family memory of those who suffered persecution or violence in the Civil War and the Dictatorship” is fulfilled.
Of the sixty proposals presented, 46 were approved, 76%; that is, three out of four, thirteen of them unanimously.
Belda was approved by four others: the demands of the company committee of the Insular Services for Attention to Women Victims of Sexist Violence; the need for urgent solutions on Animal Welfare; institutional racism and its forms of normalization, as well as the implementation of Natural Purification systems in the Isla Baja. A study on prostitution and tourism was rejected; remove the Montaña Roja campsite; the analysis of the tourist load or turning the chicharrera bullring into a space for cultural creation.
The Popular Group was supported in its ten proposals, with some reformulations in the final agreement as in other cases during the marathon session. From the closure of the Island Ring to a recovery program for degraded tourist areas. Unanimously, launch an insular housing strategy and a dual training plan adapted to those under 35 years of age.
Ciudadanos saw one of their controversial proposals rejected: start up tram line 3 in Santa Cruz from Meridiano to Muelle Norte. On the other hand, unanimous support for the Plan against youth unemployment, the two comprehensive hospitals in the North and the South, or the agreement on educational infrastructures. Also by the minimum (16-14) the extension of the third rail of the TF-1 to Los Cristianos.
The Socialist Group presented initiatives with proposals focused on the Employment with Support, access to housing and the environment. Unanimously in those referring to attention to citizens, gender violence against people over 65 years of age and promoting inclusive employment.
Half of the initiatives of Sí Podemos Canarias were rejected. Among them, measures against overpopulation, the creation of film studios or the paralysis of the Circuito del Engine, a flag throughout the session and on this command. On the other hand, there was unanimity in supporting a recovery plan for rural areas.
CC-PNC unanimously carried out its proposals on housing, attention to gender violence and youth employment. The initiatives for animal welfare, the primary sector, health and mental health in educational centers were also approved. The nationalist formation “regrets” that its initiatives to recover Ansina, promote the Urban Consortium for the Rehabilitation of Puerto de la Cruz and a pact for sustainability have not been approved.
