María Fernández asks for explanations about the location of the new headquarters of the Space Agency
María Fernández, candidate to preside over the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. /
The CC candidate to preside over the Cabildo de Gran Canaria acknowledges having "serious doubts" about the decision made by the PSOE and the "political interests" it hides, after learning that it will be prosecuted
The Gran Canaria deputy and candidate for the Canary Islands Coalition to the Cabildo de Gran Canaria,
Maria Fernandezhas reported that it will request an appearance before the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, and of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, to request explanations and information about the decision to locate the new
Spanish Space Agency in Seville.
The decision has already been appealed in court. Fernández has assured that “despite having unbeatable conditions, both the Socialist Party and President Antonio Morales have dedicated themselves more to selling press headlines instead of presenting a strong and united candidacy to defend the position of the island.
We have missed a unique opportunity for which we are prepared”.
The decision by the Government of Spain to house the new Spanish Space Agency and the Artificial Intelligence Agency in Seville and A Coruña, respectively, has raised some suspicions that the decision taken by the Pedro Sánchez government may bring with it
"political interest involved".
María Fernández explained that "the Government has carried out a decentralization process, with which we agree, but to end with a biased, partial award process and without sufficient transparency."
Gran Canaria was one of the favorites to host the center
Within this framework, the deputy María Fernández has said: «Gran Canaria is the island that has the greatest potential to become the headquarters of the Agency and after the suspicions that the choice of placing the agencies in two provinces where the PSOE has play in the next elections,
I intend to question the minister directly so that she can give us explanations in this regard.".
María Fernández assures that although there are sectors that have been very involved and have pushed hard for Gran Canaria's candidacy to be visible, the Socialist Party and Nueva Canarias have once again taken this as child's play", for Fernández The "abandonment" of this coalition that governs the Canary Islands and Gran Canarias is "alarming"
"they are making headlines all day long but at the moment of truth there is only smoke and an evident lack of work that leads us to lose opportunities over and over again".
In this sense, the nationalist also alluded to the free buses on the islands, "exactly the same thing has happened, they say lip service that it is justice for the Canary Islands but when it comes to defending it before their colleagues in Madrid they bow their heads and they settle, then when we get it we put problems to avoid having to start managing ».
This parallelism, Fernández points out, occurs again with the candidacy of the islands to house the new headquarters,
«They have been unable to present a strong and unique candidacy capable of competing with other provinces of Spain. President Morales turns a deaf ear to the Cluster and presents a botch job, even making mistakes, such as the location chosen as the first option, which even complies with the parameters established by the bases, here there is only one reading and it is laziness and the few desire to work that Antonio Morales already has left ».
In addition, the candidate assured: "We have become accustomed to this arrogant attitude, little listening and sectarian that
Time and again, Gran Canaria continues to be paralyzed and the institution is detached from the social, cultural or business sectors».
