SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 20 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, on Wednesday urged the Prime Minister, Ángel Víctor Torres, to immediately dismiss the Minister of Social Rights, Noemí Santana (Yes We Can), for her “manifest inability” to manage the dependency, after confirming the latest opinion of the State Observatory of Dependency that the Canary Islands remain at the bottom of the country in this matter, as the Popular Party denounced at the beginning of the year.
Poli Suárez reproached the Government that despite “selling over and over again that economic and human resources have increased, the truth is that the Canary Islands once again rank as the red lantern and obtain the worst grade (1.6) in the analysis of the 16 indicators evaluated by the Observatory”.
In his opinion, “Podemos and PSOE have managed to sink not only the dependency management in the Canary Islands but also their terrible data, together with those of Catalonia, weigh down the national aid system since between them they account for 40% of the list of expects from the whole country, as recognized by the president of the Observatory, José Ramírez”.
Thus, he recalled in a note that “the PP has been warning of this situation for a long time” and at the time they already warned that “the chaos and incompetence” in the management of this area “was not solved with the dismissal of a general director “.
Suárez wondered “what else has to happen, how many more people will continue to be neglected, how many more have to continue without receiving the benefit to which they are entitled, how many more must die without obtaining a response from their Government so that the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, assume your responsibility and take action on the matter”.
In this sense, he assured that the balance of 2021 leaves 25,600 canaries “tangled” in the bureaucratic tangle of the Ministry, 15,714 waiting for an assessment and 9,950 waiting to receive help, “and the most serious thing is that more than 1,500 died in waiting list”.
“These figures show that the dependency continues to be in worse conditions than in the last legislature,” he added.
Likewise, he pointed out that people who request attention in application of the Dependency Law must wait in the archipelago “an average of 943 days, compared to the 421 national average”, until they receive a response from the Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of Canary Islands.
“What is clear is that a Canarian has to wait on average twice as long as a peninsular to achieve dependency, 30 months on the islands compared to 14 in the rest of the country,” he stressed.
Suárez maintained that “you cannot continue with the siren songs and resorting to propaganda insisting that the data have improved when reality, for those who want to see it, denies them report after report.”
Along these lines, he indicated that “as the general director of the Dependency of the Canary Islands, Marta Arocha, expressed, the situation is terrifying and President Torres should, first of all, ask for forgiveness and then recognize that he only keeps the counselor in the position to save the government pact”.
