On April 3, 2023, the mayor of Unidos por Yaiza (UPY), Óscar Noda, inaugurated with great fanfare the San Marcial de Rubicón Sports Center in Playa Blanca, which had involved an investment by the City Council of 483,000 euros from the taxes paid by the residents of the municipality of Yaiza.
A year and a half later, Coalición Canaria (CC) Yaiza denounces that "these facilities are in a deplorable state and pose a serious danger to the physical integrity of their users, mainly young people, girls and boys, among whom are the players of the Tinyala Basketball Club, representative of the municipality of Yaiza."
The nationalist spokesperson in the southern City Council, Emilio Machín, describes as "a real recklessness that the lighting in this sports venue, necessary for Playa Blanca but in a pitiful state of neglect, is being obtained through a cable tied to a street lamp or that the posts of the basketball hoops are held by stones."
Attached to the Cabildo chair
In this sense, Machín warns that "the haste that Óscar Noda had to inaugurate this facility before the local elections may now cause a misfortune"; and criticizes "the constant improvisation with which the mayor of UPY acts in the affairs of Yaiza by being entertained in matters that have nothing to do with our municipality and a lot to do with his attachment to the Cabildo chair."
In fact, the nationalist municipal spokesperson points out that "this is just one more example of the neglect of the Yaiza government group in the maintenance of the municipality's sports facilities." And that it adds, he adds, "just to cite an example, to the lamentable state of the courts of the Atlantic Park of Playa Blanca, inaugurated three years ago with more than two million of public money investment and that only thanks to the complaint made by CC we saw how finally the City Council deigned to replace the glass of the paddle court that was unusable for five months."