The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote describes as an "authentic fraud the draft Budget for 2023 presented this Friday by the president María Dolores Corujo." According to the spokesman Pedro San Ginés, this "assessment is supported by the data dragged by the budget execution of recent years, of the 2020 budget there are 52 million euros unspent; of the 2021 budget there are 75 million euros unspent; of the 2022 budget, there are zero investments and that of 2023 will be a sure fraud"
"The previous data on the degree of execution of the investments are those provided by the government itself, and that can be verified in the liquidation of the budgets of 2020 and 2021, the first and second lowest years in the execution of investments in the history of the Cabildo, with 7% and 10%, respectively, accumulating in just two years 125 million euros without executing, and using as a false pretext the Covid when private investment broke records in the pandemic. For its part, in 2022 there was no investment chapter because it worked with an extended budget that does not include investments," criticizes the deputy spokesman CC-PNC, Pedro San Ginés.
The Nationalist Group points out that "with these antecedents any budget presented by the Government of Dolores Corujo in this election year does not deserve the slightest credibility, because its first two budgets were an authentic fraud, as has been its entire mandate, and that of 2022 was not even presented and, of course, was not approved."
"It should not be forgotten that the Cabildo allocates most of its budget to the Personal and Current Expenses chapter, and the rest are basically aid, subsidies and capital transfers to the town councils. That is, what determines and distinguishes the own management of a Government are the investments San Ginés. To give some examples of the disaster of management of this government are: on the one hand, the 14 million euros contemplated in the year 2021 for the acquisition of housing, financed with a credit of 20 million euros of which, since then, are paying interest, without having executed a single cent of them," they point out from the Nationalist Group.
On the other hand, San Ginés points out that "there are the 10 million euros that the Autonomous Community has transferred for the construction of a high-requirement Residence for the Elderly, with an investment of 18 million euros co-financed, with 8 million of own resources. A residence of which Dolores Corujo and Ángel Víctor Torres only laid the first stone four years ago, without anything new being known. Soon it will be known that the Home Care project with which the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote announced that they agreed to end dependence on the island, is a failed project that will never see the light. However, the Cabildo even received an award for it, with a speech included by the president in Parliament. That is, Corujo presumed to receive awards "for the implementation" of a project that has never existed nor will exist, while has put in check the model of social care for dependency built among all in Lanzarote, intending to privatize those who have been providing NGOs such as Adislan or AFA"
About the transfers from the Autonomous Community to the Cabildo of Lanzarote for investments on the island that could be contemplated in the present year 2023 "it is not even worth wasting time in assessing them after three years of deception, with hundreds of millions of euros, never seen, for roads, housing, environment, and all kinds of infrastructures; but unfortunately with a minimal degree of execution unprecedented, promising and contemplating year after year the same investments that never arrived", points out for its part the nationalist councilor and candidate of CC to the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Migdalia Machín, who emphasizes that "the only remarkable investments of the Autonomous Community executed in Lanzarote in this mandate are those awarded by the Government of Fernando Clavijo, such as the port of Playa Blanca or the educational centers of Haría and Playa Blanca, to give examples."
"In short, the governments of Dolores Corujo and Ángel Víctor Torres focus their election campaign on using Covid as a pretext to justify everything they have not done in four years and promise us now that they will do it from 2023", concludes San Ginés.
