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The president of the Canarian Coalition (CC), Paulino Rivero, defended yesterday, on the occasion of an institutional act in which he participated as mayor of El Sauzal, the management model developed by the Cabildo of Tenerife "based on planning and territorial balance of services and infrastructures" and clearly opted to extend it to all of the Canary Islands. "We intend to do in the Canary Islands what has been done in Tenerife," he said literally, referring to the need to be "clear about the islands we want" and establish medium and long-term planning "because there are not enough resources to do everything in all places at the same time."
Thus, he highlighted the importance of not centralizing all resources and infrastructures in the same area, but rather promoting that all municipalities -or islands- have the same level of quality in services and equipment, to avoid population displacements. This option, which he considers is being carried out in Tenerife through the implementation of twenty sectoral plans that involve actions in all the municipalities of the Island, is the correct one and not the one carried out in Gran Canaria, for example, with respect to health equipment, which is "totally concentrated in the city." He defended that the Tenerife model of decentralization of health infrastructures, through the improvement of the two reference centers (the HUC and the Residencia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria) and the construction of the socio-health centers of the North and South of the island, allows balance, compared to the Gran Canaria option, which "concentrates the Dr. Negrín Hospital, the Materno and the rest of the public infrastructure in the capital".
In this sense, he continued with his speech of recognition to the insular work -in the presence of the vice president of the Cabildo, José Manuel Bermúdez, who accompanied him in the act- explaining that the greatest success is to promote large insular infrastructures -such as the Auditorium, the Fairgrounds, the Port of Granadilla, the second runway of the Reina Sofía or the closure of the Insular Ring, which are "vital"- but without neglecting a "multiplicity of smaller actions that allow that at this moment there is a level of quality of life that has no reference in other islands, where they have opted for another type of policy." He referred, in this case for the second time to Gran Canaria, which has "a spectacular Avenida Marítima, but has not attended to this type of actions that make Tenerife have a different global level of life".