SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 13 (EUROPE PRESS) –
Today, Thursday, the Governing Council approved sending the Canary Islands Parliament the report on the execution of the Plan for the Social and Economic Reactivation of the Canary Islands (Plan Reactiva Canarias) for the year 2021, which developed measures amounting to 3,175 million euros, the double what was initially planned (1,540 million euros).
The decision adopted by the Executive responds to what is established on this matter in the Canary Islands General Budget Law for 2022 and to what in turn is concluded in the wording of the Reactive Canary Islands Plan, approved in the Regional Chamber on October 22, 2020. 2020, after an initiative of the Autonomous Executive, later supported by political parties, social agents and other representative organizations in the social, educational, cultural and economic fields of the Archipelago.
According to what is included in the report on the execution of the Reactiva Canarias Plan for 2021, the Government of the Canary Islands managed in that year to develop public support measures aimed at the social and economic reactivation of the Islands that reached the global figure of 3,175 million euros, a final amount, as is even reflected in the rendering of the General Account of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands for 2021 (communicated on June 28 of this same year), which means increasing the items initially planned by more than double, these at the threshold of 1,540 million euros. Therefore, the improvement achieved in the management of public funds with respect to the starting record reached 106%.
In the same official document, which displays the work carried out within the seven sections that make up the Reactiva Canarias Plan (maintenance of essential public services; reinforcement of health and socio-health capacities; care for the most vulnerable people; maintenance and recovery of employment ; promotion of economic activity; agility, simplification, cooperation and administrative coordination, and promotion of the Canary Agenda for Sustainable Development), the progress made by the Canary Islands in its comprehensive recovery phase after the effects of the covid health crisis is detailed. in health, social, economic and labor aspects.
As stated in the aforementioned report, where the evolution of economic and labor variables is detailed, the Archipelago, as of August 2022, already has more companies registered with Social Security than in December 2020, this month with 58,105 entities, by 59,829 last August, with a progressive increase in registrations activated since August 2020. In this month, that variable hits the ground and begins to recover continuously.
In the field of Social Security affiliates, something similar occurs, with an absolute record in the Islands last September, when the number of 852,802 people was reached. This means being well above the December 2020 record, with 781,685 total affiliates. In this case, the curve changes to set an upward trend without interruption since September 2020.
Along with these positive trends, the increase in unemployment appears in the Canary Islands, with a result last September better than in the same month of the previous year and with less absolute and relative unemployment than that defined for the month of the outbreak of the health crisis in the covid, March 2020. In this month, the Canary Islands had 227,634 unemployed, according to SEPE-INE; On the other hand, last September, the figure is much lower: it is 188,661 unemployed, below the threshold of 190,000.
The same has happened with the unemployment rate according to the active population: 17.76% in the second quarter of 2022, according to the EPA, compared to 18.79% in the first quarter of 2020, just before the declaration of confinement due to the covid pandemic.
In the same terms, the evolution of tourism in the Canary Islands can be shown, with a recovery in arrivals and an increase in visitor spending compared to pre-Covid periods. To give an example, the Islands received 1,334,530 visitors last August, a better figure than the same month of 2019, before the covid crisis, then 1,289,910 tourists.
