The spokesperson for the Gomera Socialist Group Parliamentary Group (ASG) trusts that in the coming months the Administration can make a greater effort in the tender
Casimiro Curbelo maintains that the Canary Islands must reverse the 42% drop registered in public tenders between January and July
The spokesperson for the Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) Parliamentary Group, Casimiro Curbelo, has opted to recover investment in work by public administrations in order to promote economic activity and job creation in the Archipelago, especially at this time when the effects of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 can be seen.
The regional deputy has stressed that, in these times marked by a health, social and economic crisis, "public administrations are the first to make a special effort to guarantee assistance to citizens and the development of actions to support the business sector, energize and diversify the economy and be able to generate jobs."
In this sense, Curbelo alluded to recent data that reflects that the Canary Islands, between January and July, registered a total public works tender figure of more than 410 million euros, but with a drop of 42% when compared to the same period of the previous year, according to figures from the construction and concessionaire association Seopan. “The decline in public bidding is widespread throughout the country, but we must reverse this trend in the remaining months until the end of the year and in the next budget year,” he pointed out.
“It is understandable that the largest amount of public investment has occurred in the first months of the year and that, as of March, with the state of alarm and confinement, it has been paralyzed, but we must, and I am convinced that this will be the case, promote the bidding for public works in these months before the end of 2020,” remarked the spokesperson for the Gomera Socialist Group in the regional Chamber.
In Curbelo's opinion, the Public Administration should promote the bidding for projects such as public infrastructure, road improvement, social provisions or construction of social housing, among others. “In this way, we not only support the construction sector and all the companies that revolve around it, but we also generate employment and the economy, in addition to having better infrastructure,” he argued.
