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CC Tenerife calls for population cap but avoids tourism moratorium

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CC Tenerife backs population limits but sidesteps tourism moratorium

Coalición Canaria (CC) in Tenerife says it will include a commitment to a sustainable development model and to limiting population growth in its manifesto for the 2027 elections, because “we are not Hong Kong and we do not want to be”, in the words of its island general secretary, Francisco Linares. But it has ignored doing the same with mass tourism, for which it is not planning any kind of moratorium.

For her part, the president of the island council (Cabildo), Rosa Dávila, has stated that on this island, on this land, “there is no more room for us”, and has advocated appropriate taxation so that the benefits of tourism activity feed back into the quality of life of the people of Tenerife. She did not mention that it is precisely her party, CC, that rejects applying a tourist tax in the Canary Islands.

A convention built around people, identity and sustainability

Both statements came at the close of the convention of the party’s sectoral committees, in which the grassroots membership contributed around a hundred policy proposals. Linares explained that the island convention revolved around three basic pillars: people, identity and sustainability.

On the latter point, he stressed that “without any fear and without any concealment”, CC is committed to continuing to limit growth on our island (even though it has not done so throughout the current term of office) and to evaluating, moderating and rationalising the effective population burden it supports. “It does not escape any of us that the public is concerned, and it is our responsibility to listen to them and act,” Linares also said.

“We have restricted access to Masca and Teno, eco-fees are being introduced in the Teide National Park [on just two of its 41 footpaths]. Do we have to stop there? No. We have to keep taking decisions and pointing out that the wealth generated in Tenerife has to be shared out better,” he added.

“Because when all the profit goes to one side and what the worker receives is not enough to make it to the end of the month, we are creating working poor,” added the island leader of CC, who went on to say that it is not about putting the brakes on or restricting, but about moderating and reflecting.

“And if we do not look after our territory, we will not look after our identity, and if we do not look after our identity, we will not pass our culture on to the new generations. And an island without identity or culture is a hollow island: without heart or soul.”

Dávila: development must be sustainable and answer to local people

Rosa Dávila, for her part, said that Tenerife’s development has to be sustainable and respond to our people: that people can live in their own land, that they have opportunities and quality employment, and that those with disabilities or in need of care can be looked after.

CC’s MP in the Spanish Congress, Cristina Valido, said hers is a party that works “from the bottom up”, in which people from every municipality make their contributions, which are then reflected in the election manifesto.

Valido asserted that the defence of identity and, by extension, of Tenerife and the Canary Islands, is not a question of ideology, but “our cause: to make sure that we are respected from outside and that our rights and needs are answered”.

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