SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canarian Coalition has announced that it will continue to work until the last moment on a “nationalist alliance” that “gives voice and defends the Canary interests in the Cortes Generales”, as confirmed by the party on Saturday after closing last night the deadline for the presentation of electoral coalitions without having reached an agreement with Nueva Canarias (NC).
The Canarian nationalists, who recognized the efforts of both political forces to bring positions closer, however, are not throwing in the towel and are already working on an alliance headed by the Canary Islands Coalition that will allow a nationalist front to come together and “join forces for the Canary Islands at a decisive moment, with the glimpse of the imposition of restrictions by Europe that will fully affect the Canary Islands and the negotiation of a new regional financing model that makes it more necessary than ever for the Canarian to speak freely in Congress and obeying solely and exclusively to this land “.
The Canarian Coalition, which has confirmed that it will go to the polls on July 23 with its acronym, insists that it will continue working in an alliance for the Canary Islands, which it trusts will be joined by other political formations with which it has already entered into conversations in around a common program of 50 points to be defended in the Cortes Generales.
The nationalists emphasize that the Canary Islands “will be at stake on July 23 and the Canaries will not elect the next president of the Government, but the deputies and senators who will have to defend the Canary Islands in Congress and in the Senate at the most uncertainty of Spanish democracy; to the deputies and senators who will have to defend every day in Madrid that the Canary Islands be fulfilled”.
The Canarian nationalists insist that “unity” is the best formula to face the challenges facing the Canary Islands, a union that “allows us to believe in a stronger Canary Islands and with the highest level of self-government, on equal terms and competences; a unit that allows us to consolidate our historical rights recognized in the Statute of Autonomy and in the REF and conquer new advances”.
Precisely, that program that they aspire to lead in a common way includes red lines such as the defense of the Canary Islands jurisdiction, the rejection of a General State Budget that fails to comply with the Canary Islands and that does not guarantee that investment in the Islands is the State average, or the claim for the transfer of costs in the terms contained in the Statute of Autonomy approved in 2018. In the same way, the nationalists highlight the need to take advantage of the Spanish presidency in the EU to reinforce the role of the outermost regions together with Portugal and France.
The presence of the Canary Islands in the new framework of relations with Morocco in matters such as the negotiation of the delimitation of the waters and the control of migratory movements is another of the points of the fifty that the nationalists defend.
The commitment to La Palma is another of the inalienable points for Coalition Canaria, which aspires not only to fulfill all the commitments for the reconstruction and recovery of the Islands, but also to extend the 60% personal income tax bonus that they managed to incorporate to ten years. Canarian nationalists in the General State Budgets.
Employment policies or those linked to education and professional training, the sustainability of the public pension system, guaranteeing decent and updated pensions based on the cost of living, the financing included in the REF for the fight against poverty, the defense of Public Health or the rejection of any attempt to reverse or dismantle the policies and laws against Gender Violence, along with specific measures to end the gender gap, family reconciliation policies or the fight against LGBTIphobia are also proposals that Canarian nationalists defend.
Canary Coalition advocates defending the ground conquered with large film productions, as well as the commitment to real economic diversification without forgetting the tourism sector or especially vulnerable sectors such as the industrial or primary sectors that must increase their weight in the Canarian economy.
Fulfillment of the commitment acquired to update the standard costs of freight transport also included in the General State Budget Law, the defense of the 75% discount for residents on air and sea tickets, the obligation of maritime public service in the islands of El Hierro, La Palma and La Gomera, full compliance with the highway agreement and approval of the law provided for in article 161.3 of the Statute that establishes a special regime for the operation of Canarian airports or the promotion of measures that contribute to accelerate the energy transition in the Canary Islands or the demand for an immigration policy that responds to the humanitarian drama that is being experienced on what is already considered the deadliest route in the world complete the measures that are part of the decalogue defended by Canarian nationalists and to which They trust the rest of the political forces in the Islands whose only priority is the defense of the Canary Islands to join.
