SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The candidate of the Canarian Coalition to the Congress of Deputies for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cristina Valido, has urged the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, “to look to the Canary Islands” after acknowledging during an interview a question about the drama humanitarian experience in the Islands that “the Mediterranean route, which is ours, has decreased”.
Cristina Valido pointed out the “seriousness” of the statements that “not only has she left the Canary Islands alone in the management of the migration crisis, but she verbalizes it while in the last month 90 people have lost their lives, including children and women, without be helped at sea when they were heading to the Islands and when the Canary route has been described as the deadliest”.
The nationalist candidate insisted that it is “very serious” for a State president to deny reality and not recognize the migration crisis on the Canary Islands route as “an issue to which to respond as it has done in the Mediterranean.”
In this context, Valido defended the creation as of July 23 of a commission to study migration in the Congress of Deputies to delve into “not only what happens on land but at sea”, and demanded to know the agreements of cooperation in rescue matters between Spain and Morocco.
He also announced that he will request an “investigation into the rescue tasks of the ships that have been wrecked in a maritime space corresponding to the area of responsibility of Spain.” Likewise, he referred to the need to reach a State Pact in order to “guarantee the investments that are needed not only aimed at care on land but also at sea.”
Precisely, the nationalist candidate rejected the “mutism and opacity” regarding migration management, which she also extended to an acting Government of the Canary Islands: “Both ones and others have chosen to turn their backs on a tragedy about which they neither inform nor demand explanations, which President Sánchez has denied today as a problem for his government”.
The candidate rejected that an issue such as migration management is left off the agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the EU: “We neither share the agenda designed by Sánchez’s cabinet nor do we understand the silence of the Canary Islands. It is not admissible that the management of the crisis migration, on the deadliest route, does not figure among Spain’s main priorities”.
A MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
At this point, the national secretary for Organization and president of the Canarian Nationalist Group, David Toledo, pointed to the Spanish Presidency of the EU recently launched by Pedro Sánchez as “a missed opportunity for the Canary Islands.” Toledo pointed out that to a presidency “ballasted” by the advance of the general elections “we must add opacity, centralism and the low participation of the Autonomous Communities.”
He stressed that “neither the State has done its job nor Autonomous Communities, such as the Canary Islands, have acted with initiative to reflect in the program the priorities of a territory, like ours, which is the only one that has its own status in the EU for our status as the outermost region”.
David Toledo rejected the fact that the acting Government of the Canary Islands has not taken advantage of the fact that it has done its homework to take advantage of the Spanish Presidency of the EU to reinforce the rights of the ORs “or that a strategy has been drawn up with France and Portugal to advance in new joint initiatives”.
The nationalist leader insisted that the Spanish Presidency of the European Union not only “will be affected by the electoral process and the constitution of the next Government, but also by the scant interest of the acting president, Ángel Víctor Torres, to agree on an agenda committed to the Canary Islands “.
