The political party Fuerteventura Avanza has criticised the €765,000 credit modification that the local government group will present at the plenary on Monday, considering that it is allocated to operational and institutional agenda items instead of addressing community issues.
Fuerteventura Avanza has taken aim at the government group of Puerto del Rosario for the new credit modification that will be put to a vote at the plenary next Monday, July 27. The party believes that the Council is once again prioritising spending on image and operations over the real needs of the residents.
The file, as denounced by the spokesperson for Fuerteventura Avanza, Peña Armas, includes a credit modification worth €765,000, financed from the Treasury surplus. These funds would be allocated, among other items, to the Fiestas del Rosario, sports activities, legal expenses, postal communications, rents, occupational risk prevention, and the Christmas cultural programme.
The political party emphasises that the modification does not include any actions aimed at addressing the main demands that residents have been conveying to the Council. Among these, they cite the delay in the works on Primero de Mayo street, the lack of opening of the Municipal Market, cleaning issues, poor lighting in many neighbourhoods, housing shortages, and ongoing problems with water supply.
“We do not question each of these items. What we question is the management model they reflect. When a Council has a surplus, the priority should be to resolve the problems that continue to await attention in our neighbourhoods and towns, not to keep increasing operational spending,” stated Peña Armas.
The spokesperson for Fuerteventura Avanza insisted that Puerto del Rosario needs investments that improve the neighbourhoods, towns, public services, and the quality of life for residents. “However, we continue to see how priorities are focused on increasing expenses that will hardly change the reality faced by many families,” she added.
In parallel to this budget modification, the party has highlighted the contracts that the Council is processing to enhance its institutional image. They have reported that there is a social media management service for Tourism with an estimated value exceeding €108,000, and another for institutional photography amounting to €40,000.
“Of course, an administration must communicate its activities; no one disputes that. What is hard to understand is the concern for generating content, photographs, and presence on social media when there are still problems that have been waiting for a solution for months or even years,” affirmed Peña Armas.
The party believes that the government group has confused governing with communicating. “You can publish a photograph every day, but that does not cover up the deterioration of many neighbourhoods, unresolved residents' demands, or the lack of progress on issues that are truly important for Puerto del Rosario,” the spokesperson concluded.
Peña Armas concluded that “the best institutional photograph is not the one published on social media, but that of the finished Primero de Mayo street, an open and functioning Municipal Market, clean and well-lit neighbourhoods, and fulfilled commitments. When management delivers results, there is no need to invest so much effort in selling it.”
The plenary next Monday will decide whether to approve the credit modification. If it goes ahead, the residents of Puerto del Rosario will continue to wait for solutions to their everyday problems while the Council increases spending on items that, according to Fuerteventura Avanza, do not improve their daily lives.
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