SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 30 December (EUROPA PRESS) –
The organisational secretary of the Canary Coalition (CC), David Toledo, urged the PSOE this Monday to refrain from exploiting the migration crisis as a “political tool.”
He made these remarks in a statement reacting to comments made by the secretary of institutional policy for the PSOE, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, who called on the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, to eject the PP from the regional government if an agreement regarding the distribution of unaccompanied immigrant minors is not achieved.
The nationalist expressed his “incomprehension” that, amid this situation of vulnerability and collapse on the islands, “the Government of Spain seems more interested in destabilising the Canarian government than in addressing this predicament, for which our secretary general and president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has consistently sought to foster all possible agreements.”
“The most recent of these was with the Basque Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, which proposed a provisional distribution plan that Junts per Catalunya could also partake in, necessitating its approval by Royal Decree Law within the Council of Ministers for immediate implementation,” he recalled.
To sanction this Decree, he asserted, the Government “does not require anyone’s assistance, just as it has done during this legislative session in which it has passed over 1,000.”
“The approach of the Government of Spain and the PSOE leads us to believe that their intention is to delay any actions until the PP removes itself from the Canary Islands Executive, which can only be described as blackmail,” he stated.
