With one month to go before the end of the 2025 sports season, in most sports, the Teguise city council has not granted all the aid to sports clubs assigned in 2024, which in most cases remains at 50%", Primero Teguise denounces.
"Poor management that aggravates the situations of many clubs, which have been suffering administrative delays in their subsidies since the past year of 2023. In some cases they have had to advance payments using money from their coffers, or seeking financing even among their own members," the party says.
The councilor of Primero Teguise, Jonás Álvarez, highlights the "passivity" of the Department of Sports and the Mayor's Office to manage sports subsidies. “Already in 2024, we asked for greater planning when distributing subsidies, with the sports calendar in front of us. We asked that the fact of separating sports aid from the Strategic Subsidy Plan be valued, which entails being subject to other decisions that have nothing to do with sports and that, as a result, the sports clubs of Teguise are harmed. Of course, they completely ignored us,” laments Álvarez.
"In Teguise, facing the sports season continues to be synonymous with having to tighten your belt and be late. Sometimes, projects that would be beneficial for the municipality are put aside, for not having the real certainty of being able to have the subsidies approved in the municipality's budgets," he says.
On this, the president of Primero Teguise insists: “it seems that our sports clubs are begging for charity, when these subsidies are an acquired right and also deserved, for the enormous work they do for grassroots sports in Teguise. It doesn't matter if they list the achievements of grassroots sports and that they are there to take a photo with them if they are not then capable of planning and informing the season to facilitate the development of the activity of sports clubs. We have 37 sports clubs and associations in Teguise! Are we planning or responding month by month in the Department of Sports?”.
“We will ask in plenary to separate sports aid from the Strategic Subsidy Plan,” says Jonás Álvarez.
PTG has had conversations with several sports clubs that, it says, "they convey their concern about the situation they are carrying with great resignation. From the insular party, the voice is raised against the lack of planning." “Approving the general budgets late and badly has these consequences. Now we regret the 2025 subsidies, but next year we will have a situation identical to this or even worse due to the way this Government team works.”
Primero Teguise affirms that "it will continue in conversations with sports clubs, monitoring sports subsidies, and will actively seek ways to improve communication between the administration and sports entities." “If those from the government group are first for the photo and the awarding of medals, if they give speeches praising the social, cultural and sporting work of the clubs, what they have to do is turn the other cheek and work hard to get up to date. It is time to take it more seriously, and look forward, and not back, worried about fulfilling what we promised last year,” concludes Jonás Álvarez.
