Within the framework of the II Meeting of the Municipality that was held yesterday Canarian Coalition (CC), its national secretary general and candidate for the regional Presidency, Fernando Clavijo, defended the need to “strengthen” municipalism to face the consequences of inflation and the crisis in Europe. Before more than 200 nationalist councilors, mayors and municipal leaders from the eight islands, he vindicated the role of local governments “to provide an immediate response to the impoverishment of Canarian households.”
Clavijo was very critical of the PSOE’s management of the crisis, which today leaves the Canary Islands as “the first autonomous community in severe poverty in Spain -365,055 households live on less than 454 euros per month, 16.8% more than the last year–”, in September “barely 11,400 Canarians received PCI and 23,000 the Minimum Vital Income”, more than 331,000 Canarians “live today in a situation of severe poverty”, and the unemployment rate in the Islands is one of the highest – higher than 17%– and the highest youth unemployment rate in Spain –more than 40%–.
The secretary general of dc He reproached “the recurrent reparation” of the State towards the Canary Islands. «They insist on confusing the rights consolidated by the jurisdiction with the right of the canaries to receive the same aid as a citizen of the Peninsula or the Balearic Islands, such as the free bus and tram trips». The management of the socialists makes CC pose as a challenge “to fight to maintain what we have, in the face of Madrid’s misunderstanding, and even more so to continue advancing.”
Not submitting an amendment to the entire General State Budget is part of the “climate of trust” established by CC, which thus “gives time to negotiate” to improve accounts “frankly improvable for the Canary Islands.” Extrapolating this understanding to the Canary Islands does not seem possible since “the flower pact has not wanted to collect any of our initiatives. none canarian government has had a more exquisite, elegant and institutional opposition» than that of CC. Even so, “we will act with the same loyalty in the case of the General Budgets of the Canary Islands.”
The objective
Manage more than 30 Mayors in the Autonomous Community, the basis for achieving “an excellent result” in Parliament and in the seven Councils, “is an achievable goal” and the one marked by CC. This was confirmed by the general secretary of Tenerife, Francisco Linares, who called for the mobilization of nationalism so that “the Canary Islands recover the leadership lost in these years of PSOE government. We are the only party in the Archipelago that puts the interests of all Canarians above all else, not like others. We need a strong Canary Islands, nationalist and eager to move forward.
During the II Meeting of the Municipality held yesterday by CC At the Hotel Escuela in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the nationalists debated youth unemployment and ways to combat it, inflation as the reality that suffocates Canarian families, how to deal with the migration situation from the disaffection of the State and financing from the municipal perspective.
David Toledo, secretary of the Canarian Coalition Organization, acknowledged that the nationalist project “is stronger than ever, despite the effort to get us out of the institutions of certain political forces.” Toledo asserted that “not only did they not achieve their objective, but we have continued working for the Canary Islandsmaking a constructive opposition, presenting more than 500 measures to the Government since the beginning of the pandemic and 18 documents for the social and economic reconstruction of the Islands».
In that context, the Mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, highlighted the role of CC as «a party that builds its identity from the bottom up. Militancy is its main engine. The political strength of the Canarian nationalists lies in their affiliates and sympathizers and the mobilization capacity of the women and men of the Canary Islands.
