SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The candidate proposed by the regional Chamber to preside over the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo (CC), has criticized during the investiture debate that Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC), led by Román Rodríguez, has been capable of betraying its principles by “the little chair of the Government”.
In response to Luis Campos, spokesman for the NC-BC Parliamentary Group, Fernando Clavijo affirmed that his political formation has “failed” because it tried to defend the oppressed peoples and they have been seen as “very comfortable” governing with the Socialist Party “despite of the betrayal of the Saharawi people”.
“As Groucho Marx would say: These are my principles, but if you don’t like them I have others. If the government’s little chair is in danger, I eat the principles with French fries and look at something else; four four outbursts and four little articles of Carmelo Ramírez and holy Easter said the priest”, Clavijo ironized, adding that “if they really had cared about that in the least, they would have had the decency to leave the Government of the Canary Islands”.
Fernando Clavijo criticized Luis Campos for trying to “give nationalist and ideological cards” and reminded him that it was his political party that joined the PSOE lists in the Congress of Deputies, so “those who have stopped being nationalists are you “. In turn, he made it clear to him that the Canary Coalition has never been on the lists of another party because, according to what he said, “we are more concerned about the coherence of our principles than the seat in Congress.”
Regarding Luis Campos’ allusions to the accounts and the lowering of taxes, Clavijo asked him for a “little bit of decorum” because “they have not even known how to present their party’s accounts”, and assured that of course taxes can be lowered and “Not making cash with the IGIC with the families that have the least and with those that do not make it to the end of the month. That is not being progressive or left-wing. That is the most practical right of a country’s fiscal policy.”
The nationalist candidate acknowledged that it has been a difficult legislature, but regretted that the Pacto de las Flores government “is determined” to say that they are leaving a better Canary Islands when poverty has risen by thirteen points. “Coming here to say that is an insult to intelligence. The reality is that the Canary Islands are worse off and it was tremendously difficult to leave them better, but don’t try to fool us,” Clavijo snapped.
“INSULTS FROM THE BLUE BANKS”.
Fernando Clavijo complained that the response of the Government of the Canary Islands to a “serious, rigorous and up to the circumstances” opposition by CC was “the insults from the stands and the blue benches” saying that they “despised”: ” That is not what we did in the opposition or what we will do in the Government (…), which is not going to despise or insult anyone. That is what we experienced in the last Legislature and we are still waiting for an apology.”
Clavijo affirmed that he has not come with a “magic wand” to solve the problems and recalled that he has already had to manage a government in times of difficulty, but he was convinced that they will also make mistakes because “he who works is wrong.” And regarding his allusions to equality, he said that a government that dismisses a counselor on 8M to “accommodate” the insular secretary of the PSOE of Fuerteventura, Blas Acosta, “is not a government that respects women or is committed to equality and they looked the other way because it was convenient for them to be in the vice-presidential chair”.
