The deputy for Lanzarote Marcos Bergaz (PSOE) asked this Friday the head of public works of the Government of the Canary Islands, the nationalist Pablo Rodríguez, about the balance of the execution of the investments planned in the 2024 budgets for the island of volcanoes in terms of roads.
Some budgets that contemplate more than twenty million euros in road investments, such as 2.5 million for the LZ Órzola - Guatiza; 7.5 million for the connection LZ-2 with the LZ-3 in Arrecife; 4.1 million for the duplication of the LZ-40 in Puerto del Carmen; 678,697 euros intervention Yaiza-Arrecife new airport highway; 7 million in repairs, works and expropriations on roads, or more than one million for the underpass of Playa Honda.
"Barely a month before the end of the year 2024, except for the new underground passage of Playa Honda, a work started in the previous legislature, - under the Government of Las Flores presided over by Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE), with Chano Franquis as Minister of Public Works and Housing -, no other action has been initiated, as we already predicted when the budget for this year for the Canary Islands was approved," said Marcos Bergaz during his speech in the parliamentary committee on public works.
"Nothing new under the sun, Minister. They went back to 'paint' items knowing that they would not be executed this year, and thus disguise the bad budgetary picture of the island of volcanoes for 2024, all this, despite the fact that they said they were realistic accounts, which would only contemplate feasible investments, but there is a long way from saying to doing," Bergaz lamented.
"The truth is that, - continued Bergaz - except for the underpass of Playa Honda, little else; it does not even seem that there is still consensus with local institutions, after seventeen months of government of the Canarian Coalition (CC) and Popular Party (PP), in the Canary Islands and Lanzarote, regarding some of the road actions contemplated in the budgets."
"Seventeen months in which the investments that are being materialized from your ministry have 'the aroma of flowers', to the previous Government, in roads, but also in housing, such as those being built in Arrecife, the result of the Canarian housing plan 2020-2025 promoted during the previous legislature, that is the reality," said the socialist deputy.
Finally, Bergaz urged the Minister, "not to repeat mistakes with the 2025 budgets, currently in parliamentary processing, so that they include road actions that have social consensus, approval of local and regional administrations, as well as all the technical blessings to tender and execute them, otherwise, they will continue to encourage fictitious accounts."