SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The national secretary general of the Canarian Coalition-PNC, Fernando Clavijo, denounced this Friday that the bill on General State Budgets “violates the REF and impoverishes the Canary Islands” so he did not rule out an amendment to all accounts “unfair with the islands, “while warning the PSOE that” the Canarian jurisdiction is untouchable. “
In no case, he said at a press conference, “we will accept that the Government of Pedro Sánchez invests 167 euros per inhabitant in the Canary Islands, just ahead of the Balearic Islands and Navarra, when the state average reaches 274 euros.”
Along these lines, he assured that “the REF is clear in stating that investment in the archipelago must approach that of the average for the State.”
Clavijo, who made a first assessment of the bill together with the autonomic deputy Rosa Dávila, justified the rejection of the nationalists to the state accounts because they are a clear example of the “mistreatment of the state to the canaries and canaries” and placing the islands “to the investment queue – it is the thirteenth – despite being one of the territories most affected by the health crisis.”
He also denounced that the Canary Islands will pay “the investment party” of the Government of Pedro Sánchez in other autonomous communities.
Clavijo insisted that “the worst thing is that the PSOE is running out of excuses to punish the Canary Islands and fail to comply with the REF because these accounts have been prepared in a context of expansion of public spending, the largest in the history of democracy.”
In addition, he stressed that the PSOE “has placed the Canary Islands very far from the average investment of the State”, and does so when it is the territory “most affected” by the economic and social crisis caused by the pandemic.
In this sense, he described the consequences of the economic policy of the Pedro Sánchez government as “devastating” and added that “the only thing it achieves is to isolate the Canary Islands more and that the gap with the average every year is getting bigger.”
The nationalist leader showed his concern about the collateral effects of some accounts that “reveal” the intentions of the PSOE with the collaboration of NC at a key moment such as the beginning of the negotiation of the new regional financing system.
In this sense, he warned of the danger of mixing regional financing and REF, as happened in 2009 during the Government of Rodríguez Zapatero and that cost the Canary Islands 550 million euros a year, which was able to correct CC in 2017.
Clavijo went into detail in some aspects of the PGE, which he assured have the handicap that they could be the last of the legislature, among which he highlighted that the PSOE “incorporates the 200 million of the road debt recognized by the Supreme Court in the calculation of the investment average “, which he pointed out,” is a trap since they are adding debts so that it gives the investment average “.
In the same way, he denounced that the PSOE continues to focus on “making up data” in its strategy of prioritizing “publicity and propaganda over the commitment it should have with this land.”
“DISLOYALTY TO THE CANARY ISLANDS”
In his opinion, “this is the result of trying to add the capital transfers of a clearly unfair budget with the Canary Islands, mixing tourist infrastructures, with the highways sentence and some more items from the REF in an exercise of disloyalty to the Canary Islands.”
On the other hand, the national secretary general of CC showed special concern because the PGE bill “does not contemplate a single euro for the reconstruction of La Palma” which, he recalled, continues “in an emergency situation”.
In this regard, he warned the Executive of Sánchez that “the responsibility and commitment of the State with the palm trees and palm trees cannot end in the decree law of 206 million euros because it is insufficient to restore the damage that the volcanic eruption has already caused.”
At this point, he announced that the Canarian nationalists will defend that the accounts include a specific plan for the reconstruction of La Palma that is prolonged in time because “in no case, is what has been announced so far enough”.
Fernando Clavijo also assured that they are “open to negotiate” but insisted that “the starting point for the Canary Islands in these accounts is bad.”
In this context, he reproached the submission of the President of the Canary Islands Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, who “follows the dictates set by Madrid” and emphasized the positive assessment of the accounts of the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Finance, Román Rodríguez (NC ).
In this regard, he pointed out, “we do not understand that you are applauding some accounts that fail to comply with the REF, that mixing a part of the road debt, of which we remember not even a euro has been liquidated yet, with the investment, punishing the two million euros. canaries and canaries “.
DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO RECOVERY
For her part, Rosa Dávila criticized the State Government for continuing to not take into account the singularities of the islands or have adopted specific measures to “overcome the crisis and generate employment that, they recall, is the great pending issue to reverse the dramatic figures that left the pandemic in terms of job destruction, business closures and self-employed casualties. “
Likewise, he warned that these accounts “do not contribute to the reconstruction of the Canarian economy after the pandemic and only register a growth of investment in the Canary Islands of 10 million euros, including the part of the road sentence”, an increase that does not understands “how the president, Ángel Víctor Torres, and much less, the vice president and finance minister, Román Rodríguez, can applaud.”
The nationalist leader pointed out that the accounts for 2022 have “many gaps” such as the minimum tax of 15% of the Corporation Tax, which does not clarify whether or not it affects the Canary Islands bonuses, or the tax differential for film shoots that “returns to the starting box set by the PSOE of 12.4 million instead of 80% and 18 million euros – 100% and 20 million for the green islands–
“We understand that it is a mistake because otherwise it would be a new outrage against our REF,” he explained.
Rosa Dávila also insisted that there are items that “are not in the PGE and that represent a severe blow and a handicap for economic and social recovery.”
Among these measures, he pointed out the educational infrastructure agreement, the hydraulic works agreement, an agreement signed with the State in 2018 and which contemplates an amount of 50 million euros per year until reaching 1,000 million, “but there is not a single euro for the strategy of internationalization of the Canarian economy or for the reconversion of the Canarian economy, there is no funding for public universities on the islands or items for the fund for the development of new routes or the deployment of broadband on the islands ” .
Dávila did recognize the package of measures aimed at young people because “it is a step forward to promote culture or emancipation, but they are not of much use if policies aimed at generating opportunities are not promoted.”
In this regard, he reproached that the PGE contemplate 255 million euros for the ‘Youth Employment’ program, 100 million less than in 2021, and that “it does so when the Canary Islands have a youth unemployment rate of 64.2% and do not have a specific response of the State to tackle these dramatic figures. “
For this reason, he described the bonds announced by the Government as “an eminently electoral strategy, far removed from the priorities of the youth population who see their future mortgaged.”
