SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Coalition (CC) has warned that neither the PSOE nor the PP will solve the problems of the Canary Islands if the nationalists are not decisive in Madrid and do not have their own group in the Congress of Deputies and representation in the Senate. “Only in this way can we dream of having a better Canary Islands”.
This was revealed by the candidates for Congress, Cristina Valido, and for the Senate, Jonathan Domínguez and Gladis de León, during their presentation at the Hotel Las Águilas, in Puerto de la Cruz.
The nationalists were supported by the national and island general secretary of the CC, Fernando Clavijo and Francisco Linares, as well as the elected deputy of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Ana Oramas, and the secretary of the Organization of the CC in Tenerife and elected councilor of the Cabildo, Rosa Dávila .
Cristina Valido pointed out that today the presence of the Canarian Coalition in Congress and the Senate is more necessary: ”We have seen the inaction and disinterest of the centralist political forces, including their Canarian deputies, materialized in years of non-compliance and lack of respect our REF and the Statute of Autonomy”.
“Pedro Sánchez’s breaches with the Canary Islands are innumerable. Without going any further, unfortunately we have a daily tragedy with immigration that has not been solved,” Valido said. In addition, he assured that with the support they have obtained on May 28, they could “give continuity to the work that Ana Oramas has done in these fifteen years of full dedication, with María Fernández and Guadalupe González Taño, and to those who paved the way for us from the beginning of democracy”, he added.
Cristina Valido pointed out that she assumes the challenge “with joy and a lot of responsibility” and assured that they are “brave and not obedient to outsiders” because “Tenerife and the Canary Islands are the only important thing for us”. “We owe it to our people, to the people of the Canary Islands and not to what the state parties say.” Thus, she pointed out that they will demand a new regional financing model that guarantees essential public services and will fight to create employment in a society that needs adequate training for the job offer and promote vocational training.
“With our presence we will support the public pension system; we will fight for more resources for Health and Mental Health, which is becoming a serious pandemic in the 21st century; and we will also support the economic sectors and the self-employed so that they strengthen their activity after some difficult years”, he explained during his speech. In addition, he made a special mention of the primary sector, “the one that shapes our landscape and makes sense of our way of being.”
For his part, Jonathan Domínguez indicated that it is very important that Tenerife once again have a nationalist senator who serves as such in the Upper House. “That the towns, neighborhoods and municipalities of Tenerife can count on a senator who is a real, direct and strong interlocutor to defend this island and its people in Madrid,” he added.
“The Senate needs new and young sap that understands the problems of the people in the first person and that has the necessary empathy to be able to negotiate, defend and fight for the solutions that our land requires,” said Domínguez, who assured that leaving the presentation of the people of Tenerife in the Senate “in the hands of senators from state obedience parties leads to the abandonment and disinterest of island society in the Upper House, despite its important democratic value in territorial representation”.
The candidate for the Senate for the island of Tenerife, Gladis de León, assured that they will contribute, from the Upper House, “to the Canarian force in Madrid”. “Having a group is a great opportunity for this land and in my case, from the island of Tenerife, being able to have a senator in the Upper House will mean working side by side with the municipalities of the Island so that they are represented through an ally , through someone who will always work for them. Defending Tenerife in the Senate is the best way to honor all those who have fought for this land.”
A “MAGNIFICENT CANDIDATE”.
Ana Oramas expressed her satisfaction with the appointment of Valido, precisely the person she had thought of when she made the decision to return to Canarian politics, because she is “a magnificent candidate.” “She has had the experience of working in the Cabildo, in the Government of the Canary Islands and in Parliament and she has extensive knowledge of the issues,” she highlighted.
Oramas highlighted that in recent years Cristina Valido “has been a fundamental support to prepare the amendments to the Housing and Minimum Vital Income Law, demanding greater attention to the public in the Social Security offices and in the work of defense of pensions non-contributory”.
In his opinion, “it is a guarantee that Cristina Valido knows in depth the big issues that are now on the table, such as the possible revision by the PP of the progressive Laws that the Canary Islands Coalition has supported and that Valido has defended long before in the Canary Islands or in the possible modification of the Housing Law, against which CC has manifested itself because it is not adapted to the reality of the Canary Islands”.
Meanwhile, Fernando Clavijo pointed out that the acting members of the Government of the Canary Islands are capable of “traveling to Madrid to present their candidates to the Federal Committee, others go to look for a flat without the Canaries having exercised their right to vote and there are even councilors such as Social Rights who leave the Government to go on the lists, but none is capable of standing in Madrid, in front of the Ministries, to demand the items of the General State Budgets that correspond to the Canaries “.
Clavijo criticized that they have put their partisan interests above those of the people: “They have put the regional elections first and now the general ones; and with this they have tried to punish the Canary Islands Coalition; but who they have really punished is the canaries and canaries”.
In his opinion, “what this situation corroborates is the importance of the Canary Islands having a strong and independent voice in Madrid, not only to achieve great achievements as we have achieved, including free buses or a 60% discount on the IRPF to the people of La Palma, but to defend this land”.
Likewise, he appealed to the Canaries so that when casting their vote “do not think about who will be the next president of Spain, but rather who will represent them and who will defend their rights in Congress and the Senate.”
Francisco Linares indicated that they are facing the campaign “as always, with their feet glued to the ground” and doing what they do best: “defend the Canary Islands.” We have hope and we are positive. The Canary Islands need now more than ever to be decisive in the future of politics in Madrid. And we aspire that the polls, next July 23, be filled with votes committed to the Canary Islands. Our alternative will have the difficult challenge of breaking through the bipartisan polarization, finding a space to make our voice heard,” he said.
