SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, presented his candidacy for the Presidency of the Canary Islands on Saturday in Tenerife to ensure that the islands can “turn the page to a period of submission” in which the interests of the Canary Islands “have been subjected to the key political interests of Madrid”, and added that the autonomous community “cannot continue to be silent while we are a bargaining chip in agreements without transparency or work to respond to the legitimate interests of the Canary Islands”.
In an act in Puerto de la Cruz before more than half a thousand people, Fernando Clavijo wanted to recall that four years ago the rest of the parties came together to oust the nationalist party from any institution where they added their votes against the Canary Islands Coalition. “In 2019 they did not appear in the elections to carry out their project for the Canary Islands; they presented themselves to throw CC out of the institutions and Tenerife is an example: they signed an anti-nature pact only to occupy seats and not govern. And these four years have not had no plan, no ability to work, no management because they submit to the acronym of the party above the interest of Tenerife and the Canary Islands”.
From the Coalition, its candidate for the Presidency of the Government claims “the best of the Canary Islands”. “We do not want to govern again because we are in the armchairs or in power again, but because we refuse that our young people do not have a future, that our people are condemned to survive even if they have a job because they have no expectations,” he explained. Fernando Clavijo. The nationalist leader maintained that today in the Canary Islands there are poor workers: “Families go to the supermarket with 20 euros and buy half of what they did in 2019. That is the reality of the Canary Islands,” he declared.
“We have to recover a horizon of hope because if we work together social conditions will improve. Because we don’t want islands that fall into pessimism, just as we don’t want Canarian institutions, town halls or councils, with arms down that don’t give problems to their bosses in Madrid. We do not want a healthcare that has more money and staff than ever, but that works worse than ever. We do not want Canarian businessmen or self-employed workers who continue to face the wall of administrations day after day, month after month and who manage to get ahead despite those same institutions that don’t help,” Clavijo said.
He also addressed the gradual deterioration of public services in recent years in the Canary Islands and warned of the need to “reverse this harmful and dangerous trend” for the maintenance and proper functioning of the basic public services of the welfare state. “It cannot be, and we cannot assume or accept, that our elders are afraid of their own present and the future of their children and grandchildren. Nor is it admissible in a dignified society that our elderly see themselves abandoned in the corridors of a center health or a hospital because they are not treated with dignity because we do not want a society divided into classes. We cannot tolerate that the Canary Islands have more and more poor people due to this lack of political work. In short, we do not want Madrid to decide the future of the Canary Islands” .
As a balance of the political cycle that is coming to an end, Fernando Clavijo underlined the enormous difficulties that the Canary Islands have suffered to assert their singularities in everything related to State policies. “Many Canaries and Canaries have felt alone and misunderstood by a Government of Spain that continues without accepting that our archipelago is a different territory, but the mediocre and submissive attitude of a Government of the Canary Islands that has remained silent in the face of these discriminatory policies is even worse. and the constant attempt from Madrid to curtail the historic rights won with effort by our people,” Clavijo said.
“Four years have come to an end in which, in addition to sharing the same pain and the same consequences as the rest of the planet due to the pandemic, we suffered unprecedented misgovernment and lack of control in the management of the public accounts of the Canary Islands,” said the also senator. nationalist in allusion to four years “without an employment strategy, without an economic policy for the future, without a public service management model, without a radical defense, without ambiguity or party rinsing, of the historical rights that Madrid is trying to snatch from us with the complicity of its branches on the islands. Because we have suffered a Canary Islands Government aimlessly and without a program to manage the present and the future. That is the legacy they leave us and it cannot be worse,” he added.
“SOME BETTER ISLANDS”.
Francisco Linares, general secretary of CC in Tenerife and candidate for mayor of La Orotava, claimed the fundamental work of the party, of its bases, “to work for better islands, for a more just society that leaves no one behind in moments of great social difficulty like the one we are suffering now due to years of bad government in the Canary Islands and in Spain”.
Rosa Dávila, Coalition candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, focused her speech on the prominence lost by the island in terms of economic, social and political leadership over the last four years. “We have worked from the opposition with absolute loyalty to the common interests of the Canary Islands, many times without finding answers to our outstretched hand to reach broad agreements for the benefit of all Canarians,” said Rosa Dávila.
Ana Oramas, candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the island of Tenerife, encouraged the electoral period and vindicated the work of the Canarian nationalists: “After the disaster that the socialist government is causing in Spain, after the ruin it entails for Tenerife and for The Canary Islands enter the Government of the PSOE and Podemos, from the Coalition we are going to continue working to recover the dignity of our people, to work for the common good above parties and ideologies because the Canary Islands need a leading president, a politician who listens and works A president who never accepts a no on behalf of the Canary Islands”.
Sandra Rodríguez, candidate for mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, questioned the municipality’s loss of direction because “every time the PSOE governs Puerto de la Cruz, the municipality backtracks and many public resources are wasted on propaganda, but we will work for a change that is more necessary than ever,” he said.
