The Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) will address in the upcoming plenary session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands the growing collapse that, according to them, is occurring at the Port of Los Cristianos. They believe that the situation at this port infrastructure is far from being fit for the 21st century.
At the plenary session taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of July, the spokesperson for the ASG parliamentary group, Casimiro Curbelo, will ask the President of the Canarian Government, Fernando Clavijo, about the measures being implemented by the regional government to resolve the connectivity of the Green Islands amid the growing collapse experienced at the Port of Los Cristianos.
For Casimiro Curbelo, the situation at the Port of Los Cristianos is far from what a port infrastructure should be in the 21st century, especially considering that it is one of the ports with the highest number of passengers in the entire country.
In his view, “we cannot continue with our arms crossed.” On the contrary, all competent administrations must be called upon to “unite as one,” he states in a note from his parliamentary group.
Regional Financing
During the control session of the Government in the regional chamber, he will also ask the Vice President and Minister of Economy, Industry, Trade and Self-Employed to list the specific proposals presented by Canary Islands to ensure in a new regional financing system their own financial position and guarantee inter-territorial solidarity.
On this issue, the note from his group indicates that the parliamentary spokesperson will advocate for properly weighting variables such as multiple insularity, territorial dispersion, actual poverty levels—not just unemployment without benefits—and increasing demographic pressure.
Curbelo remembers that the current financing system, which was supposed to be reformed in 2014, “continues to apply a formula that barely acknowledges the additional costs of insularity: it only assigns a weighting that is insufficient to reflect our geographical reality.”
