Five hundred nights later

April 30 2019 (17:54 WEST)

Few will argue that Fortnite has more than one of us talking to ourselves, just like it happens to the students, teachers and families who were enjoying the Music School or the cultural plan of Teguise.

The famous game because it hooks more than it educates as long as we don't control its use. How much we parents miss Mario Bros! And the latter because they don't know when their classes suspended for months will begin. There was a lack of management, no matter how much they look in the Contracts Law for the culprit, as the current government of Teguise repeatedly does with the promised works, with the supply contracts not formalized, with the Music School and the Cultural Plan.

It is the Law they say and write with a prose at least surprising "the entry into force of the new Law on Public Sector Contracts has meant a radical change, not only in the way of understanding and applying the close policies of day to day, but in the complexity of administrative procedures".

This, when the aforementioned Law 9/2017 came into force on March 9, 2018. Yes, more than a year ago, a year and a half if we take into account that it saw the light in November. But the easy thing, in a government group of twelve councilors is to blame the evils on that perverse law, on those new procedures even though Sabina's "five hundred nights" have passed since its approval. While this is happening, students, teachers and families are waiting for them to announce the start date of classes or have the transparency to say that, this course, and we are already at the end of April, neither the music school, nor the activities of the cultural plan will be possible.

A pity, even more so when "from the north and from the south, from the east and from the west as well" as Mestisay sings, we all agree on the need to continue with these activities in the Municipality. A priority that should be non-negotiable for the current Government and that they have not been able to manage. Because no matter how much they blame the new law, from more than a year ago I repeat, the blame for everything, the truth is that a little self-criticism is missing in a matter that they knew for too long.

Today, when those affected are tired of so many unfulfilled promises, when they ask us to continue denouncing the situation, I tell them that there are too many excuses and that in Teguise things can be done more and better. Luckily, this can be changed and the time of pottery, timples, cutting and sewing, guitars or ballet can return. In May you have the opportunity. Make it happen.

By Marcos Bergaz candidate for the PSOE to the Mayoralty of Teguise

 

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