What unites businessmen from the south of Gran Canaria and environmentalists? The rejection of Siam Park by El Veril. Managers, social agents and business owners came out this weekend in defense of the mayoral candidate with AV-PP, Marco Aurelio Pérez, when he was the subject of pressure from the German promoters based in Tenerife with the Siam Park. "I have never seen something like this, for a businessman to go to the press saying, in practice, that a candidate should not be voted for is unpresentable. Real businessmen do not do these dirty things," a business leader from the south of the island told Maspalomas24H. . A hotel businessman with interests in El Veril said that "those blonde Nordic people from Tenerife and those gentlemen from Las Palmas believe that we are their slaves."
It happens that the German group Kiessling, based in Tenerife, maintains its push to build the pharaonic work of Siam Park on free land in the south of Gran Canaria, a copy of the one that already exists in Tenerife and with the same name as, apart from the confusion in the destination, it would take away the market from Meloneras, Playa del Inglés and Aspro Ocio's business with Palmitos Park. In addition, the German group placed a hotel in El Veril and the Shopping Center in the project, generating rejection from business and environmentalists.
Precisely, the provision of free land and control of water, given that the German group lacks it and Siam Park is based precisely on water, has led to the German group from Las Palmas ordering the former island leader of the Canary Coalition, in the era of the defunct CCN, to send a message in a political key: "We do not want to interfere in politics or in the electoral debate, we only want to make our position clear as a result of experience; we already know it." Jaime Rodríguez Cíe's phrase in 'Canarias7' this weekend (filled with comments from readers in support of AV-PP) has caused the business community in the south of Gran Canaria to express their support for Marco Aurelio Pérez after the Loro attack Park: "if Marco Aurelio Pérez becomes mayor again, we will give up on Siam Park; the project will decline," said Rodríguez Cíe.
The project has been stuck for more than a decade because the Germans want free land, water, and the jobs that are generated and intends to place a hotel on public land in El Veril. Last March 2023, Marco Aurelio Pérez said that Siam Park needs the legal coverage of a new Plan for Modernization, Improvement and Increased Competitiveness (PMM) because in the summer of 2022 the Supreme Court ruled down after a lawsuit from environmentalists that dates back to previous years.
