The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis (PSOE), and the deputy of the Popular group Astrid Pérez have accused each other this Tuesday of "lack of shame" during the plenary session of the regional Parliament, and in relation to the public housing built.
The deputy asked the minister what "number of public houses have been built in the Canary Islands since July 2019", to which the minister replied: 582.
Astrid Pérez then said that housing for the population with low economic resources has been one of the "great frauds" of the regional government, despite the fact that they "proclaimed it as one of their priorities", and added that the question is simple and the "lamentable answer is zero".
The deputy of the Popular group pointed out that as the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, "likes to talk a lot about the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, she would do so to indicate that one in six social houses are built in that region".
Sebastián Franquis replied that he hoped that Astrid Pérez was going to give Arrecife as an example, the city of which the deputy is mayor, and added that "you have to have a lot of nerve" to make these approaches in Parliament and "little shame" to give Madrid as an example.
The minister stated that the answer to the question was that 582 houses have been built, and commented that if what the deputy wanted to know was something else, she should ask correctly, and then criticised that "since July they have been waiting for the suitability report from the Arrecife Town Hall to build houses".
Franquis has assured that "this town hall has problems that no other in the Canary Islands has", and has asked "since when is the PP interested in public housing and has also wanted to know how many plans in this area have been carried out in the Canary Islands when the Popular Party has been in government".
Astrid Pérez asked Sebastián Franquis to have "shame" because, she asserted, the remission of the 400 houses on the land ceded in 2019 was sent less than a month ago from the Ministry of Housing.
