Coinciding with the closing ceremony of the Municipal Sports Schools, the Popular Party of Tías wanted to express its recognition to the hundreds of children and young people, families, monitors, coaches, and clubs that have made sports activity possible in the municipality throughout the season.
However, the PP considers that any message of congratulations from the socialist government group led by José Juan Cruz loses credibility when the economic reality that sports clubs are suffering remains the same as in recent years: unjustifiable delays in the payment of municipal subsidies.
“Today we will see speeches, applause, and photographs. But behind that image, the clubs are still not getting paid for the season, supporting grassroots sports with great difficulty. The best support the City Council can provide is not a closing photo, although that too, but to fulfill its obligations, pay what it owes, and treat all clubs with equality and transparency,” denounces Francisco Aparicio.
The councilor and president of the Popular Party of Tías warns that “as the 2025-2026 season comes to an end, the municipality's sports clubs have not yet received a single euro of the corresponding subsidies. It is a shameful situation that forces entities to advance expenses, assume economic risks, and perform real juggling acts to maintain their activity.”
The management of the PSOE and Podemos suffocates grassroots sports
Aparicio recalls that this problem has been repeatedly denounced by the Popular Party without the municipal government being able to correct a management that, in his opinion, “suffocates grassroots sports and punishes those who sustain sports activity in Tías every day.”
“The PSOE and Podemos government remains determined to maintain a system that pays poorly and late. While the clubs fulfill their commitments throughout the season, the City Council fails to meet theirs. Talking about supporting sports while this situation persists is simply a mockery and an exercise in political hypocrisy,” he points out.
It never rains but it pours
Added to this circumstance is the fact that at the beginning of the term, the aid intended to cover sports travel expenses was eliminated, a measure that has been a new blow to the entities in the municipality, especially for those categories where competition outside the island is part of the usual calendar.
From the People's Party they also criticize the continuity of direct nominated subsidies granted by the municipal government. "The mayor maintains the Socialist Party's model based on political discretion, where some clubs receive direct subsidies and others are excluded without objective, transparent, and previously established criteria." For Aparicio, "we are facing a situation that generates comparative grievances and is absolutely intolerable."
The popular party defends that the City Council must bet on a transparent and equitable aid system, which guarantees that all clubs have the same opportunities and that payments are made within reasonable deadlines to prevent sports entities from continuing to finance the administration's inefficiency out of their own pockets.
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