SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, and the seven groups of Parliament have reached this Tuesday an agreement in principle to prepare a working document that sets out a “single response” from the Canary Islands to the phenomenon of immigration and through greater “coordination” between all public administrations.
In statements to journalists at the end of the meeting with the spokespersons, he thanked them for their “concern, sensitivity and constructive spirit” to find a text in which all groups feel “comfortable” and which will be closed next week with contributions from each one of the groups.
Clavijo has said that the phenomenon of immigration “will continue to be beyond” this legislature because “the reality on the African continent is what it is” and as long as the EU “does not have a decided migration policy.”
Along these lines, he has claimed “institutional loyalty” to face a “dramatic situation” and has insisted on the “predisposition” to reach an agreement in the face of the “noise” that is often generated “in Madrid.” “I am proud that in important matters there is loyalty,” she explained.
The president has admitted that the response given to adults and minors is “different” but the Canary Islands are “overflowed” – in El Hierro there are almost no adults left because they are sent to Tenerife but on the island there are almost 300 minors, competition of the regional government–.
FRANQUIS: DO NOT USE MIGRATION WITH PARTISAN TINCES
The spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Sebastián Franquis, has stressed that for the response to the migration crisis that the Canary Islands are experiencing to be coordinated and effective, it is necessary that there be “institutional loyalty” between all the administrations involved in this task.
Thus, he has insisted that “institutional loyalty is the best instrument to confront this crisis”, since not all the powers in question correspond to the central Executive. “We are also talking about the fact that there are powers that belong to the autonomous communities themselves, such as unaccompanied minors,” he highlighted.
Franquis recalled that the current delicate situation is not new for the Canary Islands, and has expressed his total rejection of it being used for political and partisan purposes.
“We consider that there must also be institutional loyalty between the Canary Islands, Spain and the European Union, and for that to happen it must be clear what the powers of each of them are. But it would be good if this issue were not made political, that take out of the political debate the migratory crisis that the Canary Islands are experiencing,” he repeated.
He has also made clear the full willingness of the PSOE to work together with the rest of the political forces on a consensus document based on institutional loyalty that allows “to face the consequences of the migration crisis in the best possible conditions.”
If this is the objective, Franquis stressed, the Government of the Canary Islands “will always count on the collaboration and support of the PSOE.”
For Franquis, it is a common work that would not only improve institutional coordination, but would also allow us to be more solid in the demand for solidarity with the rest of the autonomous communities, “especially with unaccompanied young people, which is where we have in this moment of greatest pressure today in the Canary Islands”.
“It is an effort that we must make together to achieve that solidarity not only from the European Union and the Government of Spain, logically, but also from the autonomous communities themselves when it comes to limiting the pressure that the Canary Islands are experiencing,” he stressed.