SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The candidate of the Canarian Coalition for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, presented today Monday the government program with which she intends for the Island to recover the prominence and leadership that it has lost in the last four years.
Rosa Dávila was accompanied by the insular secretary general of CC de Tenerife, Francisco Linares, and the nationalist spokesman in the insular Corporation, Carlos Alonso.
The candidate pointed out that her great concern is the people of Tenerife and that is why a government program has been designed with 200 measures focused on them and aimed at solving the problems of the Island: “We are the alternative for the Cabildo to once again be the engine of the Island after four lost years of socialist government”.
Rosa Dávila indicated that the government program contains 143 electoral proposals, developed in collective work, together with more than 60 citizen proposals collected from groups and experts in different fields, but that it will remain open to collect the contributions of all people.
“In total there are more than 200 initiatives that are articulated in four fundamental axes: Social, Employment, Opportunities for Tenerife and citizenship and Sustainable Revolution. Our priority is the people, who have been abandoned by Pedro Martín when they most needed the Cabildo to be by his side,” Dávila said.
For his part, Francisco Linares assured that it is a government program and a work plan “to return Tenerife where it deserves”: “It is a program made with the groups, with the contributions of people who are disappointed with a government that paralyzed the Island. We have a program and we have the ideal person to carry it out, who is Rosa Dávila, who is going to be the first nationalist president of the Cabildo de Tenerife and who will be accompanied by a team of prepared and enthusiastic women and men and desire to work.
Carlos Alonso regretted that Tenerife has been “paralyzed and stagnant” in the last four years “because of the PSOE, Ciudadanos and Sí Podemos Canarias”: “They promised a change and it has been for the worse. They eliminated programs like Ansina aimed at our elders and the Tenerife 2030 strategy for young people. Tenerife has been left behind and now leads the poverty statistics. Without a doubt, the Cabildo is worse than four years ago and from the Canary Coalition we are going to recover it”.
SOCIAL SECTION.
In the social section, Rosa Dávila indicated that her objective is to create 2,800 new places for dependents through the Socio-Health Infrastructure Plan and the recovery of the Ansina program so that 60,000 older people can return to activities and have active aging.
For the nationalist candidate, “it is urgent to implement the Social Health Infrastructure Plan after the PSOE has not been able to build any new plaza, losing the resources provided by the Government of the Canary Islands and that together with the resources that the Cabildo had to committing involved a lost investment of about 120 million euros. We propose mobilizing that amount in the next four years to respond to the needs of Tenerife”.
On the other hand, the CC government program contemplates the implementation of an insular plan for the acquisition of empty housing for social rental with a contribution of at least 40 million euros during the mandate.
Rosa Dávila also stated that she will work together for the definitive start-up of the North and South Hospitals and reduce the waiting list for surgery and specialized consultations. She denounced that Tenerife is “mistreated” by the Ministry of Health and the people of Tenerife suffer “the worst ratios in practically all registries: surgical waiting list, specialized waiting list, diagnostic test waiting list and ratios in primary care”.
Dávila also pointed out that job creation is essential, which is why he will promote his own measures and also in coordination with other administrations. In his opinion, “education is essential as the basis for obtaining a job, the differentiation between territories to guarantee equal opportunities and the development of employment policies in priority sectors.”
Through the ‘Neighborhoods for Employment’ program, the nationalist candidate announced that they will increase the dimension of the program, diversifying it and reaching more nuclei, constituting the essential philosophy of the Cabildo’s employment policy. “We want to train and give a job opportunity to more than 20,000 people throughout the mandate, increasing the resources of the program to 20 million euros in that period,” she explained.
The creation of a Youth Employment Plan, with an initial item of 5 million euros, is another of the measures advanced by the candidate, as well as support for strategic productive sectors such as the primary sector and tourism. The program also provides for special employment and dual training programs in the circular economy, in the ship repair sector, in the textile and fashion sectors, in sports, in the electromechanical sector or in construction.
Rosa Dávila indicated that the aid to SMEs and the self-employed “will be increased to 5 million euros per year, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce and other entities because they are the most important part of the productive fabric of the Island. We will simplify the requirements for the access to aid so that they can have the resources immediately and we will once again promote the Insular Entrepreneurship Plan”.
MOBILITY.
As for mobility, the Canary Islands Coalition candidate indicated that she will allocate 100 million euros a year for island roads, including treatment and landscape improvement. And she will continue with the commitment to public transport with a game of 40 million euros per year to finance free buses and trams for the duration of the crisis. In addition, she will establish a subsidy line of 2.4 million euros for the taxi sector.
In this section, he also alluded to guided transport, with the projects for the northern and southern trains “that we will recover after they have been put in a drawer these four years by the PSOE. Guided transport is essential to end the problems of mobility in Tenerife, together with public transport and investment in highways,” said Dávila.
The third axis is aimed at improving the opportunities of Tenerife and for the island’s citizens, for which reason Rosa Dávila will launch the ‘People 2030’ initiative “to have more prepared, capable, enterprising and creative people.” That is why we are committed to innovation, digitization and the values that are inherent to sport”.
