Nueva Canarias wants a "more democratic" 2025 for Teguise and "where order reigns"

Belén Machín takes stock of 2024 and points to a "government group with a lot of show business and little management"

December 30 2024 (19:46 WET)
Belen Machin, New Canaries Teguise
Belen Machin, New Canaries Teguise

The president of the Local Committee of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-bc) in Teguise, Belén Machín, wanted to close the year with a balance of 2024 in the municipality, where according to the Canarian, "chaos and undemocratic forms" of the main party of the government group, Coalición Canaria (CC), have prevailed.

For Machín, this 2024 began with "local budgets far from the main tasks that every government group that prides itself on should undertake." Thus, the expenses were destined to "entertain more than to take care of the neighbors," with exponential items in festivities and tourist events, and belittling sensitive issues such as housing, social rights, cleaning or security. A government group with a lot of show business and little management," she comments.

This is followed by the "ridicule" and "chaos" that the Caleta de Famara Mobility Plan entailed, where NC-bc positioned itself strongly against what they considered "a real nonsense," with a planning of 200 parking spaces in the same urban center, "without sidewalks for pedestrians and refusing to go to the root of the problem, which is none other than the saturation of vehicles and the load capacity of both Caleta and Playa de Famara."

"We believe that this plan was a demonstration that the government group does not act together, but rather they are different compartments that are patching up what occurs to them at any given moment, and where the mayor is correcting once she finds that she has been criticized," comments Belén Machín, who recalls the "moment when the parking lines that the workers had made days before were erased because the mayor saw herself with the criticism of the neighbors for not taking citizen participation into account."

Another of the negative assessments that NC-bc maintains is the countless impediments that the government group makes to the supervisory work of the opposition, using administrative excuses to block motions and refusing to answer questions. "They believe that the opposition should not exercise our work, and they use the city hall as their personal estate without being accountable to anyone," Machín points out.

Finally, the president of NC-bc in Teguise highlights that the closing of this 2024 has been marked by "the lack of sensitivity of the government group towards the staff of workers in charge of cleaning public facilities, where the awarding company has been failing to meet its commitments to them and to the contract."

"This last episode reflects chaos and lack of control by the top leaders of the City Council, in addition to little sensitivity with the workers who are claiming their labor rights," Machín maintains.

With everything, from the Canarian organization they wish that for the next year 2025 Teguise can advance in policies that truly transform the well-being of the neighbors, that order prevails in management and democratic forms. 

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