SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA, Nov. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Gustavo Matos, announced this Tuesday that the Chamber will donate another 300,000 euros to the reconstruction work on La Palma after the volcanic eruption in Cumbre Vieja, in addition to the 200,000 euros approved a few weeks ago.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting of the Parliamentary Board on the island and after meeting with the president of the Cabildo, Mariano Hernández, Matos also pointed out that a specific commission on the reconstruction of the island will be created in the Chamber .
The commission will be chaired by the president of Parliament and its Bureau will be made up of the members of the Bureau of the Chamber and its composition, calendar, operation and provisions regarding the appearances will be agreed with the parliamentary groups.
The president has said that the commission will be a good place for debate to expose the “immense work” of reconstruction that La Palma needs and once it is finished, a report will be prepared with all the conclusions.
Matos has specified that Parliament does not have powers in the management of the emergency but it does in the legislative agenda and there its role will be essential to regulate the new situation of the territory or to approve decree laws, among others.
“The palm trees cannot feel alone. Faced with this natural catastrophe, the greatest that the Canary Islands have faced, we must be brave by providing new solutions for those who have lost everything,” he stressed.
In addition, he appreciated the unity shown by the political forces represented in the Parliament of the Canary Islands in relation to the catastrophe on La Palma.
“The Mesa wants this climate to last beyond the day the eruption ends, because it will be day zero of reconstruction,” he said.
The president also recalled that it is not usual for the Board to move away from its headquarters in Tenerife, “but the exceptional circumstances that the island is experiencing would warrant that this session be held here, which means that, in a symbolic way, the citizenship of Canaries to La Palma “.
In this regard, he recalled that in this tenth legislature, the Board had only met outside of Tenerife at the beginning, in La Graciosa in recognition of its inclusion as the eighth populated island in the then recently reformed Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands.
Before the official working session of the Table, its representatives held a meeting with the president and vice president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Mariano Hernández and Borja Perdomo.
SOLIDARITY OF THE CANARY PEOPLE
Hernández thanked the solidarity of the Bureau of Parliament, “which is the solidarity of all the Canarian people and that contributes to the fact that at no time we have felt alone.”
In this exceptional situation, he pointed out, “the greatest emergency that the Canary Islands have experienced in the last century, the administrations must continue working, as before, hand in hand, to give the most solid and fastest responses to the palm tree society.”
The island president considered that Parliament is “key and absolutely necessary to advance this response” and was convinced that La Palma “will continue to count on them.”
The work agenda of the Table in La Palma ended with the meeting held with the Steering Committee of the Volcanic Emergency Plan of the Government of the Canary Islands (Pevolca), where the president of the Chamber explained what the municipalities have transmitted to him between yesterday and today , affected platforms, president and vice president of the Cabildo.
“Parliament will be very important and will be key from that day zero of reconstruction,” he insisted.
