Faced with the "triumphalist" press release disseminated this Wednesday by the City Council's governing group, Coalición Canaria Tías considers it "essential to convey a more realistic vision to the citizens." Behind the announcements and positive assessments, the nationalists assure that "clear contradictions, unfulfilled promises, and structural problems that directly affect residents persist."
Planning and housing: the great roadblock
According to the party, "the General Plan is once again presented as progress, when in reality it is an unfulfilled promise for two legislatures. The lack of planning not only generates legal uncertainty but also blocks the development of land for public housing".
"It is particularly contradictory that a government that defines itself as left-wing boasts about social policies while failing to approve a plan that would allow for the allocation of land for affordable housing, in a municipality with growing problems of housing access for young people and working families," they continue.
Culture: speeches versus abandonment
There is talk of cultural revitalization, but the Culture building continues to be closed and "without a real solution, and we have inquired about it on several occasions, and the mayor always assures us that it will be soon".
This situation has direct consequences:
-The Music School has "practically disappeared with only two teachers and currently even lacks adequate and stable space".
-Cultural associations "are forced to improvise or not carry out their activities".-Culture "cannot be sustained solely by one-off programming if basic infrastructures remain blocked year after year."
Environment: Obvious Inconsistencies
The socialist government "boasts of sustainability and environmental education, but the antenna installed in Masdache, right in the heart of La Geria, represents a serious landscape impact in one of the most protected and emblematic areas of the municipality, such as La Geria."This is compounded by the fact that "the brown bin has still not been implemented for the general public, remaining limited to hotels or specific facilities, which contradicts the message of participation and environmental responsibility".
Basic services: when management doesn't reach the neighborhoods
Economic stability "is not translating into a visible improvement in daily life. Street cleaning and urban maintenance remain one of the main neighborhood complaints, with clearly neglected areas. Having a surplus is useless if basic services continue to fail."
Sports: not for a few, but for everyone
The governing group speaks of sport as a tool for social cohesion, but points out that "the large promised infrastructures remain unexecuted":
Examples include the municipal swimming pool, "which they said in 2019 would take 6 months to open, and after 6 years it remains closed, the public gym, the Tías paddle tennis courts, or the imagined La Tiñosa Sports City, promised in the 2019 campaign and previous ones".
"Added to this is the state of total neglect of the Mach Point tennis facilities, which present a lamentable image of the municipality for both residents and visitors, and of the courts in each of our towns, such as the one in Masdache, whose poor condition we have denounced on numerous occasions," they continue.CC Tías defends that "sport is for everyone, not just for those who already have access or for specific events, but with dignified and open public facilities".
Modernization Plan: "more tourism, less balance"
The Puerto del Carmen Modernization Plan (Puerto del Carmen) "is presented as an opportunity, but it implies land-use modifications aimed at tourism development, without previously resolving key issues such as housing, public services, mobility, or saturation. Modernizing cannot mean continuing to place the burden on resident neighbors."
Regarding this, he points out that "modernizing is not giving tourist use to land in Puerto del Carmen where it was previously prohibited by the General Plan, so that new hotel infrastructures or extensions of others can be built, putting more tourist beds on the market while the socialists preach the opposite."
Employment
From CC they say that "they talk to us about job fairs while almost a million euros from the PFAE training plans are lost, which helped people train and opt for quality employment, due to their disastrous management regarding the hiring of management teams, which was reduced to employing friends and family as we denounced on several occasions until the money that arrived due to this negligence finally had to be returned".
Social Welfare
Regarding Social Welfare, they indicate that this area "is not about alleviating families' needs through subsidies but about helping these families to make ends meet without needing aid. Furthermore, they boast about improvements in quality of life while every day we see more people on the streets, especially due to social problems that should be addressed by mental health professionals with real interventions on the street and not in offices."
Investment
"For years we have seen how in each municipal budget an annex of investments is added that is simply a copy and paste from the previous year, or press releases talking about replacing lamps with LED type while there are many streets in the municipality where public lighting has not yet arrived or with daily operational failures," they declare.
"And each year they tell us that the budget is larger due to the inclusion of surpluses and subsidies for projects that are never carried out. In other words, talking about surpluses is acknowledging that the budget has not been executed correctly, and hence those surpluses," they continueAccording to the nationalists, "part of that remainder comes, for example, from the lack of local police officers; positions are budgeted but not filled, creating an excessive workload for the few officers remaining, making it increasingly difficult to cover shifts while they are criticized for overtime pay."
Conclusion
CC Tías does not question that large sums are being managed, but rather "the lack of real solutions to entrenched problems." "Governing is not just about executing budgets or designing campaigns, but about providing answers on culture, housing, sports, the environment, and basic services."
"Tías needs less self-congratulation and more effective management, thinking about those who live and work in the municipality all year round," they assure"And we emphasize: talking about surpluses means that the budget has not been executed correctly, and as we have denounced on many occasions, part of that surplus comes from the lack of local police officers, since positions are budgeted but not filled, creating an excessive workload for the few agents remaining, making it increasingly difficult to cover shifts," they conclude
