It is evident that the Government of the Canary Islands is hoarse, vociferating against the PSOE Government, so that the agreements for public works in the Canary Islands are signed and transferred as soon as possible. And it has many reasons to claim it.
What happens is that these agreements were agreed with the PP since 2017, in addition to those contained in the appeal that was won before the Courts of Justice. And never, in more than a year, was there any clamor on the part of Coalición Canaria, rebuking and demanding from the then president Rajoy.
This change of vociferous attitude is due to several reasons: the first is that Coalición Canaria has not taken very well the motion of censure against the most corrupt party in the European Union and, therefore, the coalition members are still nostalgic for those times when the rights of Rajoy and Rivera governed, with the support of PNV, CC and NC when voting on those antisocial budgets.
Another fundamental reason is that we have been with little public investment and with merciless social cuts for a decade. And the big businessmen, friends of Coalición Canaria, accustomed to the inveterate custom of cost overruns, have received little commission for public works, and have been demanding it for some time, because their business depends on it.
And, finally, another important reason is that we are just eight months away from European, regional and municipal elections. And Coalición Canaria and its Gomero partner of the ASG have already suffered a first setback with the more than possible reform of the Canarian electoral system that, although insufficient, means a small advance compared to the current one, which with five thousand votes on an island you can get three deputies and with fifty thousand throughout the archipelago you can be left out of the Canarian Parliament.
For this reason, the Clavijo Government, in free fall, urgently needs some project of a road or a tunnel, in front of whose model to be photographed, or some ribbon to cut in front of a land where another unnecessary port will be built, such as that of Fonsalía.
And there is the danger: in the first nine months of the year, and with data from September, the Government of the Canary Islands has barely executed 7.3% of the investment budget in Public Works and Transport, mainly in roads.
Of the 238 million euros, the Clavijo and Pablo Rodríguez Government has only been able to certify 17.35 million. And they are in the last - we hope that this time yes - year of legislature, after 27 uninterrupted years in the Government of the Canary Islands.
A government that does not plan the works with sufficient time, that works on the basis of occurrences, such as the improvised Canarian resident bonus for the island of Tenerife, is not to be trusted.
A government that spent huge amounts of euros on the ports of Arinaga and Granadilla, promising thousands of jobs, and are currently in a state of abandonment, is not to be trusted.
A government that buries millions of euros in ports, without any social or economic profitability, such as Tazacorte or Garachico, is not to be trusted. And that also threatens to continue expanding them.
A government that began the legislature by approving the Land Law to favor speculation, even more so, in our territory, is not to be trusted. And that, possibly, in the last breath of the four years of mandate, approves the Law of Social Services. First, the businesses of a few, forgetting the needs and interests of the social majority.
Therefore, a government that thinks only of a few people, who get rich at the expense of public works, and leaves hundreds of thousands of people who are in the Canary Islands in a situation of extreme poverty and social exclusion, is not to be trusted.
Surely, that is why Podemos and Unidos Podemos bother them so much, and they call us populists, because we are capable of making the PSOE look to the left and agree for the next Budgets for 2019 that the Minimum Interprofessional Salary rises to 900 euros, that pensions are updated according to the CPI, that the self-employed pay their fee according to income or that early childhood education 0-3 years is universalized.
There we await the vote of Deputy Oramas.
That measure and the rest of the 50 agreed pages, do benefit the social majority in the Canary Islands; perhaps they do not support them, because their sponsors and beneficiaries of public works are going to have to pay more to the public coffers. And that is "very ugly".
Those of us who have come to politics to change it for the benefit of the social majority are going to continue along that path, working for the defense of the public, which in the end are our rights.
We are trustworthy people.
By Manuel Marrero Morales, Deputy of the Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group