The candidate of Coalición Canaria to the City Council of San Bartolomé and spokesperson of the nationalist formation in the Consistory, David Rocío, is committed to the "recovery of public sports spaces, which the PSOE government has dismantled, depriving citizens of their use".
And, Rocío points out, “the PSOE has become specialist in using the pandemic as an excuse to justify its apathy and lack of management”.
Thus, the nationalist candidate points out that "the San Bartolomé gym has not only not reopened its doors after closing them in March 2020, but when normality has already been installed everywhere, this sports space, essential for the residents of the town, has been completely dismantled by the government”.
“While other municipalities have been recovering their life and sports activity, the 500 users of the San Bartolomé gym have been forced to look for other alternatives, even moving to other locations”, laments Rocío, who recalls that CC has stated on several occasions that the ideal would have been to take advantage of the time in which the aforementioned municipal facilities could not be used to improve them and reopen their doors completely renovated.
“We issued press releases, we raised it with the government and proposed different initiatives, however the continuous neglect of this institution, full of headlines and promises, shows us the image of a desolate gym, disappeared. San Bartolomé has run out of a municipal gym and it hasn't been by magic”, the councilor emphasizes. "A similar situation is the Playa Honda court, completely restored since 2018, but closed to the public," he adds.
“We do not understand the reasons. A space prepared above all for the enjoyment of the youngest, but that cannot be used as such because it is used as a venue for holding parties and meetings throughout the year”, says Rocío.
The CC candidate stresses the importance of municipal infrastructures being used for the purpose for which they were built. “If the sports facilities are used for other types of events or simply disappear, we are leaving an important sector of the population without alternatives, and we are not going to allow that”, he asserts.
In the same way, he wonders what municipal project a political party like the PSOE has, “which is not capable of preserving the most essential of our quality of life”.
