The spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the San Bartolomé City Council, David Rocío, is pleased that "the City Council has finally set a date for the start of some of the directed activities, such as Zumba", which he assures has done so "after the pressure and insistence of the nationalists".
From the Canarian Coalition they point out that "they still do not understand why, while other city councils recovered them immediately after returning to normality, once the mandatory health stoppage was over, San Bartolomé has not done so until now."
“We have been denouncing for more than a year that when normality and sport were recovered on the island, after the clash that ended the table of mayors by the PSOE, in March 2020, San Bartolomé decided not to resume certain activities and has continued like this until now”, points out the spokesperson, David Rocío.
Faced with this position of the municipal government, the Canarian Coalition group assures that "it has not stopped demanding the recovery of each and every one of them", and maintains that it has done so "through motions, appearances and public complaints".
The government's responses and excuses have not convinced the nationalists, who have not hesitated to describe them as “a real accumulation of lies”.
“First, in March 2021 they claimed that as soon as the socio-cultural centers were regulated for this, they would be launched, then in July 2021 that in September because participation decreases in summer, in September that in January 2022, in January that in March and in March that in July”, laments Rocío, who assures that “even, for months, they have only been making excuses to the company that has the award to direct the activities to continue causing the delay”.
However, the CC councilor affirms that "the viralization of a video, which demonstrates what is happening in the municipality, and the media pressure, have been the definitive impulse for the municipal officials to finally start working”.
“We find it regrettable that they have had to wash their face so that they are ashamed and start the directed activities once and for all, two years and three months after the closure and more than a year after the rest of the island's city councils did so”.
The next step, the nationalists assure, will be to start putting pressure “so that they start working to open the municipal gym that on the day of its closure in 2020, had more than 500 users”