SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 22. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokeswoman for the Mixed Group, Vidina Espino, has accused the Government of the Canary Islands of leaving more than 500 million euros unexecuted while waiting lists and queues at Social Security increase, and has accused President Torres of being “betraying” his own words when saying that ‘no one was going to be left behind’: “Turn your head, get it out of the official car and look at the people you are leaving in the ditch”.
Vidina Espino pointed out in her speech at the Debate on the State of Nationality that the Canary Islands are poorer today than they were two years ago and three out of ten Canarians (29% of the population) are in a situation of poverty. “This is the reality and there is no way to hide it or disguise it. The only thing this government should have considered is saving families from this disaster,” she said.
Given this, Espino criticized that the Government says that the “great solution” was the Minimum Vital Income (IMV), when in the Islands 8 out of 10 requests have been rejected, or that they have only dedicated 4 million euros more to the “last cartridge” to help families in difficult situations, such as citizen income.
“Is that the great answer?” asked the deputy, who stressed that the Government of the Canary Islands spends more on advisers and trusted personnel, assuring that for the president alone the spending on political advisers.
The spokeswoman also criticized the fact that while thousands of Canarians queued up at soup kitchens and at Cáritas, the Vice Minister of the Presidency has invited the richest people in the Canary Islands to the best restaurants with public money. “That is not only a waste, it is also indecency,” said Espino, who asked Torres to, at the very least, dismiss him.
Likewise, he considered the treatment that has been given to people who have reached the Canary coasts to be “indecent”. “Migration has neither stopped nor is it going to stop and the responses of the Government of Spain have been improvised and unsupportive. They should have said enough.”
Vidina Espino also indicated that La Palma is a “crystalline” example of how the Government works today. “While there were cameras, 10,000 ministers went to the Island. When the cameras were turned off, the flies flew,” lamented the deputy, who wondered where “the rains of millions that are announced over and over again” are for those affected by the eruption.
