Canary Coalition went for wool and left shorn during the eight hours of the plenary session of the Cabildo. The nationalists, with Carlos Alonso absent, presented a motion to resolve the problems of congestion in the port of Los Cristianos and the rehabilitation and requalification of the city, which in their debate became one more episode in the controversy over Fonsalía.
Blanca Pérez, defender of the motion, lost the newspaper library and the 30 years of nationalist government in the Cabildo, when the president, Pedro Martín, reminded her of the lurch of CC given with Fonsalía, after voting this week against the project that has been endorsing “in the Government, in the Cabildo and in the municipalities since the nineties,” recalled Martín, who described the motion as “electoralist”, showing an “environmentalist face that most resembles Sí Podemos”, ending with “the Coalición Canaria’s position with Fonsalía reminds me of Groucho Marx in A night at the opera ”. Martín invited the nationalists to wait for the result of the macro-study commissioned by the Government to the Canarian universities to find out the alternative to Los Cristianos: “If they don’t see Fonsalía, I’ll be the first to say no,” he commented. Enrique Arriaga (Cs) was not behind, who defined the current CC as “a fairground shotgun”, by bringing a motion that “mixes churras with merino”.
Águeda Fumero (PP) recalled that the Fonsalía project was born in 1995 when Arona opposed the expansion of the port and that since then there was talk of Fonsalía, “until the DIA of 2014 expired.”
There was more tension in the appearance of the insular director of Coordination of the president of the Cabildo, Aarón Afonso, requested in June by CC, on the Edusi of the Southwest of the metropolitan area. Afonso pointed out that the project continues its processing as a strategic project, with a protocol that has the approval of La Laguna and the Government of the Canary Islands, “but we do not know anything about Bermúdez, when 60% of the land is in its municipality.”
Afonso recalled that the project was included in the European Edusi strategy in 2016 and that, upon the arrival of the current government team to the Cabildo, a letter was received from the Ministry of Finance informing of the null execution of the aforementioned strategy and warning of the breach of the commitment to execute 30% of the actions, which should have been carried out by December 31, 2019. In addition, it indicated that, according to a study by Gestur, most of the land on the Taco mountain is privately owned – not public such as it was said in the CC-file, and that only the amount of the land valuation would exceed 22 million euros, 10 times more than what the acquisition of the plots cost ”, answered Blanca Pérez, CC spokesperson yesterday. This insisted that “the neighbors have not been informed that the Cabildo has renounced this project.”
