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 Government of the Canary Islands prioritizes investments, projects, tenders, economic funds, subsidies and execution of works in favor of Gran Canaria”
Izquierdo «regrets» that in the Canary Islands «got lostIt seems that, in a definitive way, 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 la becomes the seventh minor island of the Archipelago». Left sentence: “It is a tangible, indisputable and demonstrable reality.”
The business leader maintains that in his speech «It is not about encouraging insular litigation or defending insularism, but rather to denounce a scandalous favoritism that, by keeping quiet, with stealth or dissimulation, already seems completely normalized. The president of the Tenerife employer insists that “we have been denouncing this unfortunate situation for years to visualize the deterioration in which Tenerife lives.” Izquierdo insists: «How much has to be done or It must be undertaken on our Island, it encounters multiple obstacles from the bureaucratic ones, to those already known to the noists, whose interests in stopping everything are unparalleled ».
Izquierdo considers that “it is about delaying the implementation of investments or projects to be undertaken on the island” based on “sterile debates, requirements for remote-controlled studies that are useless or egocentric roles of mediocre politicians, who do not see more out of their noses and wastes their time. Óscar Izquierdo maintains that “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. He stresses that “the vast majority of high-ranking officials in the Canary Islands Government are from Gran Canaria or the eastern province and this has dire repercussions for Tenerife.” Add to this list “the generality” of general deputy directors, heads of area, service, section or technicians. “That explains the sinking of Tenerife and the enlargement of Gran Canaria”, Izquierdo sentenced.
The president of Fepeco He doubts that the regional government is «a coalition government as it may seem» but rather «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 he concludes: “They leave the Tenerife business fabric touched and pissed off.”
