The Popular Party candidate for mayor of Yaiza, Juan Monzón, has expressed his perplexity at the intervention in the Canary Islands Parliament of the president of UPY and deputy for Nueva Canaria in the regional Chamber, Gladys Acuña, in relation to the social housing planned for Arrecife.
The populars are astonished at Acuña's "double discourse and incongruity", who in the purest populist style, "while in the municipality where her party governs they are against ceding land for the construction of social housing, when she "dresses up" as Nueva Canarias in parliament, demands that the investment be transferred from Arrecife to the other municipalities on the island.
During her speech, the leader of UPY even demanded that the Canary Islands Executive invest more in social housing in view of the deficit of almost 4,700 homes on the island.
"A problem that, as Acuña knows well, is also suffered, and very harshly, in the municipality of Yaiza, where finding a home for an average worker becomes an impossible mission." Aware of this problem, already in March 2018, Juan Monzón submitted a motion to the municipal plenary session requesting, as the only item on the agenda, to initiate the procedures for the partial modification of the Yaiza Urban Plan to contemplate the transfer of municipal land to the autonomous community with the ultimate goal of building public housing.
The motion, which was supported by Juan Monzón, Ganemos Yaiza and CC, was voted against by Unidos por Yaiza (UPY) and the PIL. The popular candidate stresses that Mayor Oscar Noda "did not hesitate to reject the proposal and show his preference for a private housing development in Montaña Roja".
"The contradictions and populism in which Unidos por Yaiza moves are evident, far from facing the problems they are taking out disparate arguments as appropriate," says Juan Monzón, who has again demanded that a specific modification of the planning plan be agreed to contemplate the transfer of land to the Canarian Housing Institute.