SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 22. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokeswoman for the Socialist Group, Nayra Alemán, highlighted this Tuesday the commitment of the Government of the Canary Islands to strengthen public services to combat the “onslaught” of the economic crisis derived from the pandemic and the rise in prices.
In statements to journalists after the president’s speech in the ‘Debate on the State of Nationality’, he commented that when the Legislature began “nobody imagined this scenario” so he said that “data cannot be compared”.
Alemán has reported that as a result of the start of the pandemic, tourism, the “main engine” of the Canarian economy, was stopped, which has generated “consequences”, such as an increase in poverty, but whoever wants to ignore this economic situation is “deceiving” to citizenship.
However, he has indicated that poverty “is chronic in the Canary Islands, it did not arrive the day before yesterday” because for many years “social policies and people with low training and without access to the labor market have been left aside.”
In that sense, he has indicated that the measures of the Government of the Canary Islands have been a “retaining wall”, stressing that there are more people working “than ever” and the archipelago has the best employability data for 14 years.
“The Government of the Canary Islands does everything in its power and with the collaboration of the State Government because I don’t know what we would have done,” he detailed, while noting that “signs of recovery” are beginning to be seen in the Canary Islands.
As for the president’s announcements, he has highlighted the cultural service law, the dialogue table to resolve the abuse of temporality, investment in public works, the transfer of costs from July 1 or the agreement on the highway agreement .
