The Popular Party and the Canarian Coalition have accused the government group of the Cabildo of "turning their backs on the residents of Tahiche in their demands regarding the layout of the new canalization for the water supply to the north of the island."
Specifically, from the Canarian Coalition they explain that they had requested to modify a section of the project called "Zonzamas-Arrieta Transport Pipeline (North Line 1); specifically the one that crosses and affects the streets Severo Ochoa, Rafael Alberti and Eduardo Pondal, that is, the roads where the most important infrastructures of the town are located: CEIP César Manrique, University Schools of Tourism and Nursing, the Municipal Pavilion and the Football field".
“These are infrastructures that support a large influx of students, athletes, businesses and the general public, and we must not forget that, in addition, in the streets Severo Ochoa and Rafael Alberti, there are houses that have been built for more than fifty years and some do not have foundations, so the works could cause irreparable damage,” explained the nationalist councilor Domingo Cejas, who has accused the PSOE spokesperson in the Teguise City Council, the socialist Marcos Bergaz, of “putting on the jacket of councilor of the Cabildo and spokesperson for the government group, mortgaging the future of the residents of Tahíche.”
The motion that the nationalists have brought to the plenary session this Monday, echoing the demands of the residents themselves, aimed to urgently modify the project and seek other alternatives. “We are all aware of the need to execute the work, but not in this way and much less using a totally biased and electoral discourse as used this afternoon by Marcos Bergaz, again blaming the Canarian Coalition as is customary,” they question.
"Mistakes are there to be corrected and we are talking about modifying only that specific section. The sanitation is not pressurized, the supply is,” Domingo Cejas stressed.
“We have been battling with this problem for almost two years, meeting with people, consulting, looking for alternatives, because an infrastructure of that caliber should not pass through local streets, due to the pressure it entails, when there are other alternatives,” the councilor stressed, insisting that they had "the hope" that a solution would be found. "But we already see how little our neighbors matter to the PSOE, which has one discourse in the City Council and another in the Cabildo,” he concluded.
"The requests of the neighbors matter very little to them"
For its part, the PP has also sent another statement criticizing the government's position on this point. "The Socialist Party has made it clear that the requests that the neighbors have once again put on the table matter very little to them and they have voted against the motion presented by the PP, expressing their refusal to seek any alternative that involves stopping the execution of the project,” the party questions.
Councilor Jacobo Medina has reprimanded the PSOE for this attitude that “places it in front of what the neighbors want and not by their side to seek a consensual solution to the problem.” For the populars, the way in which the socialists have approached the debate on the initiative is “shameful and sad”, "politicizing it and taking advantage of Marcos Bergaz to make his partisan speech as a Psoe candidate for mayor of Teguise."
“It is a shame to see that due to mere politicking and lack of political will, Corujo's socialist government votes against the neighbors and viable alternatives to the layout are ignored, which there are,” Medina insisted during his speech in the Plenary.
