Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, pointed out “with astonishment” this Wednesday that when reviewing the main challenges facing the island of Tenerife for this new legislature together with the president of the Cabildo, Rosa Dávila, these “are the same problems or more serious than four years ago” because “they have not been resolved”.
Clavijo has indicated this in a press conference after meeting with Dávila and other representatives in the first approach to the island councils after taking office, where he has highlighted “health, care for vulnerable people, mobility and hydraulic infrastructures” as the most urgent problems for both institutions in Tenerife.
Specifically, he has highlighted “the significant absence” of the hydraulic infrastructures agreed upon in an agreement of 900 million euros in 10 years with the Government of Spain, works that have not been carried out because, he said, “Pedro Sánchez failed to comply with it during the last five years”, a notorious situation in the face of “a very dry summer” that will make it difficult for farmers to “supply irrigation”.
For her part, Rosa Dávila agreed that “during the last four years Tenerife has lost political, institutional and economic weight” which translates into a detriment to the “quality of life of the people who live on the island”, while indicating the predisposition of both institutions to work together.
Dávila has pointed out the importance of implementing “a socio-sanitary plan that was paralyzed four years ago”, and that has prevented, he said, providing places in residences for the elderly and vulnerable, which has meant “an increase in waiting lists”, as well as the priority of building “a complete hospital in the south of Tenerife”.
Regarding the problem of mobility, especially the “collapse of the roads”, he explained that this has to be with the “number of vehicles per inhabitant that exists on the island”, a problem that is not only about “having more road capacity”, but about making “decisions that are aimed at mitigating and alleviating” traffic jams.
Finally, the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife has addressed the situation suffered by the coasts with the “discharges to the coast”, a “pending task” in which she has pointed out to the Government of Spain because “it owes a lot of money, millions of euros, to the Canary Islands” to invest in “hydraulic works to avoid discharges into the sea”, an issue for which she has asked Clavijo to be “demanding” with the central government. EFE