SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep. 1 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The secretary general of the Canary Coalition (CC), Fernando Clavijo, has described this Thursday as “unpresentable, despicable and injustice” the decision of the central government to raise the bonus for bus and tram transport from 30% to 50% when in the Peninsula commuter and medium-distance trains will enjoy 100%.
In a press conference in which he was accompanied by the parliamentary spokesman, José Miguel Barragán, Clavijo accused the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, of “lowering his head” and “justifying and applauding” the agreement with the Ministry of Transport that it sets a “precedent” by putting “for the first time in writing” that the canaries are “second class citizens”.
He has said that “there is no objective reason” for this “offense” to be committed with the islands and he has charged against Torres and the rest of the ‘Pacto de las Flores’ parties because “they continue to obey” Pedro Sánchez “in his crazy career for staying in La Moncloa at whatever cost”.
Clavijo has commented that the jurisdiction of the islands –REF, Statute, RUP condition– is what has allowed the Canary Islands “not to be treated as a colony” and to achieve economic takeoff from an “agrarian and illiterate society” to another with opportunities for young people.
“They are squandering the future of our people and with this precedent we can expect anything,” he added, lamenting that this month, in the middle of the “September slope”, Canarian families will pay half for transport passes when on the Peninsula the trains will be free.
Barragán has wondered if the Canary Islands are not suffering from the effects of inflation given that the buses are the “trains” of the islands and has made Torres ugly because he has “the title of president” but “does not defend” the archipelago.
He recalled that Torres promised in Parliament to demand 100% of the bonus and when he believed that “he was going to get it” at the meeting in Lanzarote with Pedro Sánchez, now he presents the increase from 30% to 50% “as an achievement”. .
He does not understand the “submissive attitude” of the president or that the rest of the parties of the ‘Pacto de las Flores’ “keep silent” before this decision, without even showing some “pride” or rebellion before the measure, and has been questioned without in the Canary Islands the regional Executive or Pedro Sánchez himself governs.
