SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Coalition candidate for the Congress of Deputies, Cristina Valido, has called for “fair and dignified treatment for the Canary Islands, asserting their rights, not privileges, within the framework of the State.” “We deserve the same respect as the citizens of Catalonia and the Basque Country,” she stressed.
Cristina Valido, who participated in an act with affiliates and supporters together with Francisco Linares, Fernando Clavijo, Ana Oramas and the candidates for the Senate for Tenerife, Gladis de León and Jonathan Domínguez, indicated that the useful vote for the Canary Islands is the Canary Coalition.
“We are the only ones that have specific measures for the Archipelago, to resolve once and for all the difference that separates us from the rest of the territory, and it is incomprehensible that they continue to vote (in reference to those elected by the PP and the PSOE) for the deputies who go to Madrid on behalf of the Canary Islands and then do not speak, remain silent in the face of the problems and even vote against our interests,” Valido stated.
The candidate considered “a lack of respect that the PSOE’s electoral program does not make any mention of the Canary Islands or propose policies for important issues, which must be solved in the Islands to advance in our self-government. Only then will we have an opportunity for the future both for our children as for our grandchildren”, he added.
Likewise, he denounced that no mention is made in the socialist program of the reconstruction of La Palma, a reference to the conference of presidents “who will explain to me how relevant it is when it comes to offering an opportunity to recover their life project to those who They have lost everything,” he said.
He also considered that it is not typical of a government or a State party “that does not worry about what happens in each and every one of the Autonomous Communities, so it is denounceable that they look the other way in the face of the migratory drama that is taking place It is in the Canary Islands, but we already know that for the Government, and also for the Popular Party, the route that worries them is the Mediterranean. Not even the PSOE is transparent on what the bilateral relations with Morocco are based “that have so much influence over Canary Islands,” said Valido.
The candidate denounced that to the absence in the PSOE program “it is added that the Popular Party will not attend in a singular way the needs of the Canary Islands derived from the insularity because it equates them to those of the Balearic Islands, when we do not have the same reality, forgetting, in addition, the status of Ultraperipheral Region of the Canary Islands”.
