SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 3 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The representative of the Canary Coalition (CC) in the Congress of Deputies, Cristina Valido, has alerted the Government this Tuesday regarding the significance of her party’s political backing amid discussions concerning the responsibilities involving unaccompanied migrant minors.
“They ought to remember that my single vote could be crucial,” she stated during a press briefing, referencing the approval of budgets, committees, investigative panels, or any other voting matters.
Valido, who appeared before journalists alongside Organisation Secretary, David Toledo, and Senator Pedro San Ginés, underscored that when the vote is weighted and the representative of the Mixed Group is herself, her vote “equates to eight,” making it more significant than that of PNV, Junts, and ERC.
She emphasised that the PSOE has formalised a legislative “agreement” that encompasses the “humanitarian crisis” of immigration in the Canary Islands, which must be prioritised “above the political fray.”
“These children arrive in the Canary Islands because the State at sea determines that they come here, and if the best interests of the child is what directs the State, they cannot impose situations where instead of housing one hundred, two hundred are being accommodated, and then do nothing, because the best interests of the child are disregarded,” she articulated.
Valido remarked that the Government is cognisant of the circumstances within the centres for migrant minors and that it seems “simpler to pursue billions” for Catalonia and approve an amnesty statute than to “confront bravely” the realities occurring on the islands.
“They cannot continue to be astonished that we are weary, that we are declaring enough is enough, that we are requesting the courts to adjudicate, and that the courts must establish whether it is feasible to continue asserting that this falls under the competence of the Canary Islands and is their issue, while suggesting that the State bears no responsibility for the current situation since it is the only recourse left to us,” she noted.
Valido anticipates that the upcoming meeting with the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, will be concluded shortly, to assess adherence to the ‘Canarian Agenda’ and to ascertain whether the islands’ budgets will be enacted with the extended accounts or if, conversely, the Government has adequate support to ratify the 2025 PGE.
“Perhaps it is through neglect rather than action that they are the ones instigating a potential future rift,” she cautioned, underlining that the Government must cease using the “excuse” that the PP does not endorse the reform of the immigration law, given that other laws have been sanctioned with different support.
The nationalist MP made it clear that CC does not “pay allegiance to either the right or the left,” nor does it partake in “political coercion,” or oppose matters that “people require.” She has scrutinised the “double standards” that certain debates adopt based on the autonomous community they pertain to.
