"A lost year, of many lies, unfulfilled promises and zero transparency." That is the assessment made by the Renovating Movement of Tinajo on the first anniversary of the new mandate of Jesús Machín, who has already been at the head of the City Council for 19 years. "He is proving to be a mayor without initiatives, without enthusiasm and without a project, who is leading the municipality of Tinajo to the most absolute disaster", warns the party's spokesman in the Consistory, Antonio Morales.
In fact, he recalls that after almost two decades in office, Machín has not fulfilled any of the promises he has been making for more than ten years. "He doesn't even have the projects, when in the years he has been mayor he would have had time not only to have them, but also to execute the works", denounces Morales.
In addition, he recalls that the City Council still has no budget for this 2020, despite the fact that almost half a year of the fiscal year has already passed. "Not even having an absolute majority is he able to get accounts that are essential for the functioning of any administration forward in a timely manner", says the spokesman for the Renovating Movement of Tinajo, who insists on the apathy with which Jesús Machín is managing the municipality, without even planning any type of investment with its own funds.
To this is added the "total abandonment" to which he is subjecting the residents, by not worrying about problems such as the drinking water cuts that the municipality continues to suffer, without the mayor bothering to demand solutions from the Water Consortium of which he is a part. "He has not even been able to manage something as simple as taking out the tender for garbage collection, which is creating a very serious image and health problem", adds Antonio Morales, who has been denouncing for months the situation in which this contract is found, which the mayor has been extending after it expired, despite the serious breaches by the concessionaire company.
"In this period of State of Alarm he has not even convened the Plenary and has not informed the opposition of anything", laments the MRT spokesman, who questions that the mayor also does not answer the writings presented by the opposition and that none of the nine motions presented by the party during this year have been executed, despite the fact that seven of them were approved unanimously in the few plenary sessions he has convened. Regarding the last three plenary sessions that were held before the state of alarm was decreed, the government group has also failed to post them on the City Council's website, thus preventing residents from accessing that information.
Regarding the current economic situation due to the Covid-19 crisis, the Renovating Movement of Tinajo also denounces that the government group has not announced any measures for the affected families, SMEs and self-employed. In this regard, the party recalls that it proposed a battery of measures that the mayor has ignored, such as launching an employment plan for families that have been affected, also taking into account young people; and exempting companies and self-employed workers who pay taxes in the municipality and are suffering the consequences of the crisis from paying municipal taxes in this year 2020.
In addition, the party recalls other proposals that it has made in the last year to generate economy and employment in the municipality, but that the mayor has been unable to carry out. On the one hand, Antonio Morales insists on the need to adapt the General Plan to the new laws and to make the specific modifications that residents have been requesting for years. "The General Plan is vital so that people can invest and execute works", says the councilman.
Another of those proposals ignored by the government group is to present a project to Costas for the improvement of La Isleta -Ría de La Santa; as well as to draft a project where the attractions of the municipality are valued, such as its landscape, gastronomy, sport, culture, historical heritage and local product. "These three proposals are fundamental to generate economy in Tinajo, attracting tourism that in turn generates employment", emphasizes Morales.
However, the MRT spokesman denounces that the only thing that residents are receiving from the mayor are unfulfilled promises. Among them, the elimination of the Action Units of the General Plan, the creation of a clean point and the conditioning of La Isleta-Ría de La Santa. "Nor has any investment been made in the primary sector and residents are still waiting for the Youth Center, for the natural pools in La Santa, for the elevator in the municipal gymnasium and in the social hall and for the new vehicles for the City Council", questions the party.
"He said that it was going to be the year of investments and the little that has been invested in the municipality has been with money from the Cabildo or the Government of the Canary Islands", says Antonio Morales, who considers that Tinajo deserves much more than a mayor who has forgotten his residents, their problems and their needs after almost 20 years in office, and who is unable to make the municipality progress
