The CC group in the Cabildo has responded to the statements made by the new vice president and Minister of Public Works of the Corporation, Jacobo Medina, who accused Pedro San Ginés of having left a "poisoned candy" with the Fdcan resources, warning that 8 million euros already committed could be lost and that there are no projects for the 20 million of the following year. In this regard, Coalición Canaria does not deny that this risk exists, and focuses on questioning that the criticism is made by a member of the PP, given that this party governed together with San Ginés in the last part of the past term.
"Such surprise is not understood and to whom they should ask for explanations, in any case, is to their own colleague from the Popular Party and predecessor in office, because they have held the responsibility of the areas whose management they now criticize," CC states in a statement, referring to Saray Rodríguez, who was the previous Minister of Public Works.
Therefore, Coalición Canaria considers that the statements made by Jacobo Medina on Radio Lanzarote ? Onda Cero are "incoherent and lacking any political decency." However, after emphasizing that it was the PP who carried out the "direct coordination" of the Fdcan resources - through the Ministry of Public Works and Planning and Project Coordination - CC insists on defending the management of these funds and the "investments and projects" that they have allowed to execute, which have been repeatedly used by Pedro San Ginés to defend his management at the head of the Cabildo.
Acknowledges that extensions will have to be requested
Regarding the complaint itself raised by the new Minister of the area, CC acknowledges that there are "projects that are pending and for which extensions must be requested from the Government for their execution," which is precisely what Jacobo Medina warned.
In fact, the Minister himself explained that there are eight million euros that must be justified before October 31 and that have not yet been spent, and announced that they were waiting for the new Government of the Canary Islands to be formed to request an extension, although he expressed his fear that this new term would not be granted, given that a previous extension had already been requested.
In addition, he also warned that for the year 2019-2020, which amounts to 20 million euros, there are still no projects drafted, although CC does not mention this in its statement.
Criticism also of the previous government of Arrecife
"Jacobo Medina should ask for explanations, in his case, to his own party, who will surely justify him or remind him of what they criticized until two days ago when they were in the opposition in the Arrecife City Council, and that is why some of these projects have not been carried out in the capital, that is, due to the inability of the previous socialist government that prevented the Cabildo from executing part of these investments by paralyzing or, in many cases, blocking the necessary inter-administrative cooperation for it," adds the nationalist party.
Thus, CC shows its discomfort for another of Medina's statements, which stated that Arrecife "has been one of the most mistreated municipalities in investments." In his speech, the Minister himself added that in this case there had also been "lack of diligence" on the part of the previous government group of the City Council, but even so, Coalición Canaria accuses him of "justifying the unjustifiable", to defend now that Arrecife has been one of the "mistreated" municipalities, and reminds him of some of the statements he made in the past term, when he was a councilor in the opposition in the capital Consistory.
"Words that he now seems to forget or retracts from them", according to CC, "to attribute part of the responsibility to the previous Government in the Cabildo, when the reality is very different, the public opinion knows it and even he himself has recognized it in countless public interventions". Therefore, they reproach him for "using at this time a discourse so different from that of just a month ago and being able to actually accuse his own party of mismanagement when they governed in the Cabildo, only to support the PSOE and disqualify the political figure of the former president."
In addition, CC also extends its criticism to the socialists, recalling that at the beginning of the past term it was also part of the government group and held the Ministry of Public Works. "Although it now denies the entire stage of government presided over by CC, the truth is that it has also co-governed in the last two legislatures," questions the PSOE.