Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (EFE) the new legislature in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria that will lead from their government NC and the PSOE.
The culmination of the Social and Health Plan, 75% of which is in execution, which will mean the start-up of 2,000 new parking spaces, and the Gran Canaria Stadium, as well as the construction of the new Island Sports Center will be other initiatives that will mark the mandate of the government of progress that will lead, with “internal and external institutional loyalty”, Antonio Morales as president and Augusto Hidalgo as first vice president by virtue of the “Pact for Gran Canaria” that they signed this Thursday.
As both have specified, in the context of the conservative wave that has landed in the autonomous governments and local corporations after the 28M elections, the reissued government of progress of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, of which Podemos is no longer a part and in whose opposition the PP, CC and Vox are located, it was not born with the desire to become a “resistance”, but with the purpose of being a reference, giving stability to the institution and making the people of Gran Canaria prosper without neglecting the defense of interests of the island.
Morales, who assumes the Presidency of the Gran Canaria corporation for the third consecutive legislature, a responsibility to which he will add the management of sustainable mobility, since he heads the Single Transport Authority, has reported that his party, NC, will also manage the areas of Economic Development, Industry, Commerce and Crafts; Treasury and Emergencies; Territorial Policy and Landscape; Institutional Cooperation and International Solidarity; Primary Sector, Food Sovereignty and Water Security, and Environment, Climate, Energy and Knowledge.
The PSOE, for its part, will manage Public Works and Infrastructures, Architecture and Housing; Social Policy, Accessibility, Equality and Diversity; Employment and Local Development; Tourism; Public Administration and Transparency; Education and Youth; Culture and Sports.
The Island Government Council will have five representatives from the NC and four from the PSOE and the second and third vice-presidencies will be for each of these parties, respectively, while each opposition group will be able to have one person released so that they can exercise with full powers his opposition work.
This “Doramas Pact”, as Augusto Hidalgo has called it when signing at the Hotel Santa Catalina with this park as a backdrop, is based on 16 lines of action: the fight against inequalities and policies to care for people; eco-island and climate change, an area in which the new government is committed to the island reducing polluting emissions by at least 5% per year and reaching net zero emissions by 2040; employment, development and economic diversification and island of knowledge, research and innovation.
To these will be added the objectives of achieving a 100% sustainable island, with the help of Salto de Chira and offshore wind energy, one hundred energy communities, an electrified transport and a train powered by renewables or green hydrogen and also sustainable, responsible tourism -aligned with the 2030 Agenda- and intelligent and digitized.
Being an egalitarian and inclusive island that promotes its food sovereignty that, in addition, conserves and values its territory, for which the declaration of the Guguy Special Nature Reserve National Park and its marine limits will be pursued, are other lines of action of this government pact.
Promote culture and sports and business and employment opportunities, promote access to decent and accessible housing and continue to bet on helping the impoverished countries of the planet, in addition to deepening the efficient and agile management of the Cabildo through a plan of electronic administration that allows the citizen and the city councils of the island to have services 24 hours a day, seven days a week are other priorities.
NC and the PSOE also undertake to contribute to making Gran Canaria a “reference in democratic and participatory values in the face of worrying threats to democracy and rights won”. EFE