The construction employer in the Tenerife province, Fepeco, warns that “Tenerife is seriously affected in the forecasts of the regional accounts for next year”. Its president, Óscar Izquierdo, denounces that “the Canary Islands Government prioritizes investments, projects, tenders, economic funds, subsidies and execution of works in favor of Gran Canaria »
Left “Regrets” that in the Canary Islands “it seems that, definitively, the balance between the two capital islands.” Remember that “historically, it had given good results to political and economic stability in our Autonomous Community.” The manager of the Tenerife employer understands that “for decades, everything has changed and there has been an oscillation.” In it, he insists, “Gran Canaria maintains its meteoric economic rise and takes regional leadership”, while “Tenerife languishes in a continuous unstoppable setback, which makes it the seventh smallest island in the Archipelago.” Left sentence: “It is a tangible, indisputable and demonstrable reality.”
“Normalized” favoritism
The business leader maintains that in his speech «It is not about encouraging insular lawsuits or defending insularism, but to denounce a scandalous favoritism that, in silence, with stealth or dissimulation, already seems completely normalized ». The president of the Tenerife employers’ association insists that «we have been denouncing this unfortunate situation for years to visualize the deterioration in which it lives Tenerife». Izquierdo insists: “Everything has to be done or must be undertaken on our island, finds multiple obstacles from the bureaucratic ones, to those already known to the noists, whose interests in stopping everything are unparalleled.”
Izquierdo believes that “it is about delaying the implementation of investments or projects to be undertaken on the Island.” He adds that “it is based on sterile debates, requirements for remote-controlled studies that are useless or egocentric roles of mediocre politicians, who do not see beyond their noses and waste their time.” Óscar Izquierdo values: “Party strategies are controlled and governed from the sister island, where guidelines are imposed on submissive Tenerife politicians, who only know how to obey, keep quiet and pay homage.”
“Everything is decided elsewhere”
The Tenerife business leader understands that “this makes everything depend on what is decided elsewhere, where people always sweep home, because as the saying goes, love is orderly and begins with what is ours.” Underlines that «The vast majority of senior officials in the Canary Islands Government are from Gran Canaria or the eastern province and that has disastrous repercussions for Tenerife ». Add to this list “the generality” of general deputy directors, heads of areas, departments, sections or technicians. “That explains the sinking of Tenerife and the enlargement of Gran Canaria”, Izquierdo sentenced.
The president of Fepeco doubts that the regional government is “a coalition government as it may seem” but rather that it is “characterized by the territorial component of its members; the party does not matter, since in the decisions they put their local character above.
Izquierdo sums up: “It is no longer visible only in large projects, but also in the redistribution of economic funds from the ministries, in minor works or services that are directly awarded to companies in the province of Las Palmas to be carried out there.” And concludes: “They leave the Tenerife business fabric touched and pissed off.”
