SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 26 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputy of the Mixed Group in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Vidina Espino, has warned this Thursday that she will vote against any salary increase for deputies, as has been raised in the commission that addresses the reform of the regulations of this Chamber.
Espino has also shown himself “absolutely against” the fact that the deputies continue to receive their salary after the dissolution of the Chamber, against the fact that they are paid compensation and that, by law, they are going to raise their salaries every year. salary, according to the CPI, “like pensioners”.
Vidina Espino has also clarified that the dissolution of Parliament “means that you are no longer working as a deputy, laws are not processed, plenary sessions or commissions are not held, and therefore a retribution does not make sense.”
The deputy has also criticized the fact that this commission to reform the Regulations has been convened in a non-business month like January “to give priority to a matter like this.”
On the other hand, he points out in a note that he would have liked an “urgency commission” to have been convened to see how to solve the 47 percent child poverty in the Canary Islands or the problem of residences for the elderly, “which are in a lamentable state, like that of El Pino in Gran Canaria”.
Regarding the salary of the deputies, Espino recalled that, if in these four years of legislature it has not been raised, it is due in large part to the fact that she has been one of the “most belligerent” deputies so that it was not done, even conditioning this decision to his vote in support of Parliament’s own budget.
He also highlights that “with amendments and with insistence” he has managed to prevent the salary of the members of the Government of the Canary Islands from being raised in the last year either.
For the deputy, “the salaries that public representatives receive are decent enough” and she has insisted that “with the impoverishment that the Canaries are suffering, the circumstances are not for politicians to raise their salaries.”
