SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has once again demanded this Friday that the central government arbitrate a ‘single command’ to manage the migratory surge suffered by the archipelago, as was done in the ‘cayucos crisis’ of 2006.
“If there is only one ministry, everything will be more efficient and agile,” he told journalists, regretting that so far the Canarian Government has not managed to meet with the ministries of Social Rights, Foreign Affairs and Transport.
Clavijo has pointed out that this is the “next step” to continue working on improving the response to migrants arriving on the Canary Islands and hopes that the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, will appoint a minister in charge of immigration issues because he has there must be a “single dialogue”.
The president has valued that the Canary Islands can take part in the coordination meetings with the Ministry of the Interior, after the meeting held this Thursday between the minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Security Advisor, Lady Barreto, stressing that it was “incomprehensible” that so far it has not been part.
Along these lines, he understands that it is necessary to plan the reception resources, health care, the activity of the State security forces and bodies and the local and regional police, so “it is good news” to be part of the meetings. of work to know “how it is being done” and also “contribute” with their own decisions.
He has also valued Maritime Rescue’s decision not to remove boats from the islands in the midst of an upsurge in arrivals because this way they will be more “calm” and there will be “fewer deaths” and now he hopes that the state organization will also address the workers’ demands because “they “They play life” with “intense and long” shifts to “rescue others from death.”
