SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 19. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Gomera Socialist Group Parliamentary Group (ASG), Casimiro Curbelo, has asked that the Debate on the State of Nationality stage the unity of the political groups in the face of the economic consequences that the Ukraine conflict is having on the Islands with an increase in the prices of energy and fuels, which is transferred to all the sectors of the productive fabric of the Canary Islands.
Casimiro Curbelo reiterated his request that the extraordinary session of the Autonomous Chamber to be held starting next Tuesday be the forum to analyze the socioeconomic reality of the Islands as a result of the global impact of the war and the effects it leaves on indicators such as inflation. In this sense, he alluded to the fact that it is not only about taking stock of the year, as is usual in this type of debate, but that “we are capable of facing this reality from the cooperation and political height that citizens demand”.
He also wanted to recall that, although the last year had been focused on the health, social and economic recovery left by the covid-19 crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine “is slowing down the positive symptoms that the macroeconomic data were beginning to show “. For this reason, he insisted on combining criteria and conveying to the State “the suitability of giving specific coverage to the demands of the Islands in the National Plan that is being prepared.”
He emphasized the work that the Government of the Canary Islands has been carrying out during the three years in office marked by adversity and successive crisis situations. First with the fires, then the virus, last year the La Palma volcano and, now, the crisis due to the war. “Obviously miracles don’t exist. But what we do have to recognize is the responsibility that this Executive has exercised to keep these islands standing,” he said.
Finally, he advanced that during his speech in the debate he will also address cooperation with those affected by the volcano in La Palma; the migratory crisis or the measures to strengthen the Welfare State, without forgetting the inequalities that mark the condition of double insularity in territories such as El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma.
