The mayors of Santa Cruz, San Miguel, El Rosario, Santiago del Teide, Arico and Granadilla yesterday showed their rejection of the distribution of the Cabildo Subsidy Plan, endowed with 16 million euros, and have asked their president, Pedro Martín, to rectify and reverse for “excluding seven out of ten citizens of the island of Tenerife.”
This has been stated by the councilors, who criticized the Cabildo’s distribution of these nominative subsidies for next year, in which 14 million euros, as they have denounced, go to municipalities led by mayors of the PSOE.
The mayor of the capital, José Manuel Bermúdez (CC), indicated that this act aims to give voice to what is a “clamor” for the way in which the Insular Corporation has made a distribution of nominative subsidies “unprecedented” in the history of the Cabildo; where 16 million euros have been distributed “absolutely by finger” and in a “biased and sectarian” way.
For his part, the councilor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil (IR-Verdes), denounced that the Cabildo has left more than 17,000 residents of the municipality out of the distribution and affirmed that the “cacicadas” and “political revenges” cannot be the usual practice in politics.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro (Popular Party), emphasized that the island’s municipalities are “to collaborate” and asked the Cabildo to take the “outstretched hand” of the mayors to be able to carry out a budget “Consensual”.
The mayor of Arico, Sebastián Martín (First Arico), regretted that a “historical consensus” had been broken so that the distribution of nominative grants from the Cabildo was made in a “unanimous and consensual” manner among all municipalities.
For its part, the Cabildo reported yesterday that it currently has works underway in 13 municipalities of the Island for a global amount of 19 million euros, in execution of the Municipal Cooperation Plan 2018-2021, for which it denies the imbalance between municipalities that the mayors of San Miguel, El Rosario, Santiago del Teide, Arico, Granadilla and Santa Cruz de Tenerife have denounced.
The president, Pedro Martín, pointed out that these are large-scale works that are “strategic” for the development of municipalities and are related to sanitation and water purification, the improvement of the sewerage network, the expansion of the reservoirs and branches for the distribution of drinking water and the fitting out of municipal buildings and sports infrastructures, among others.
The municipalities in which it is intervening are Adeje, Arona, Granadilla, Güímar, La Matanza, Los Realejos, San Miguel, Santa Cruz, Santa Úrsula, Santiago del Teide, Los Silos, Vilaflor and El Sauzal.
Martín highlighted that “of these 13 municipalities, out of a total of nine the PSOE does not govern, but other parties, 62% of the Cabildo’s investment in a total of 15 works goes to municipalities in which other parties govern, for Therefore, it is very surprising that the opposition wants to convey to the citizens the false message that the Cabildo favors some municipalities to the detriment of others ”.
