SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 23. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokeswoman for the Mixed Group in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Vidina Espino, has presented a battery of 23 resolution proposals to the ‘Debate on the State of Canarian Nationality’, all of them aimed at focusing the course of the management of “a Government that has failed” and that today it is worse than two years ago.
Among the initiatives, the immediate abolition of the gasoline tax and direct aid to families, the self-employed and small businesses stand out.
The deputy has insisted on the need for measures to be put in place to compensate for the effects of inflation and the increase in transport costs, which has impoverished the people of the Canary Islands.
For this reason, it has proposed “the immediate abolition of the special tax on hydrocarbons on a temporary basis throughout the Canary Islands and structurally on La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, as well as the creation of a price surveillance and control commission, on everything, in the ‘green islands'”.
To deal with the inflation derived from the increase in the price of raw materials, transport and the rise in the cost of energy, it has requested support measures for families, the self-employed, small and medium-sized companies, as well as direct aid to the primary sector of the islands.
With the aim of reducing the high rate of youth unemployment, it has proposed a specific plan for the hiring of young people in collaboration with the business fabric of the islands.
In terms of Social Rights, the proposals have focused on expanding the workforce to “expedite the resolution of dependency, disability, Canarian insertion or citizen income benefits and the child protection service.”
Likewise, it has requested that the second Social and Health Infrastructure Plan be complied with and the urgent call for a negotiating table with the third sector and professional associations to reach agreements that allow the approval of the Catalog of Services and Benefits established by the Law of Services Social.
The updating and improvement of the Aborda plan to reduce waiting lists in the Canarian public health system, the creation of a registry of patients with persistent Covid, the increase in the current number of psychologists of the Canary Health Service and the provision of the Pain Unit of the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria of, at least, a stable psychologist, have been the proposals aimed at improving and strengthening healthcare.
EDUCATION
With the aim of dealing with structural costs that are in deficit, Vidina Espino has proposed an increase in the budget allocated this year to both public universities in the Canary Islands, “by a minimum of five million euros each”.
Not being corrected, warns the spokeswoman, “would mean the closure of services.”
Other measures that he has presented include establishing a drop in the student ratio, at all levels and teachings, for the 2022-2023 school year with an increase in the number of teachers; the Educational Infrastructure Plan and urgent works to expand and improve educational centers, as well as the elimination of modular classrooms or barracks.
Within the framework of the improvement of educational facilities, it has requested that the Escuela de Actores de Canarias be provided with a suitable headquarters in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria so that the students can continue their higher studies in dramatic art in an optimal way.
THE PALM
Fulfilling the commitment made with the palm growers during her visit to the island, the deputy has proposed the immediate constitution of a Consortium that assumes the reconstruction of La Palma with the participation of the administration, qualified technicians and those affected. .
Also, a specific mental health plan for those affected by the eruption of the volcano, as well as the approval of a decree law on the legal status of those affected that guarantees their rights to see compensation for the damages and losses suffered by the catastrophe.
Another of the commitments that the spokeswoman has wanted to fulfill in her resolution proposals has been the stabilization or consolidation of staff in temporary abuse in the general administration of the autonomous community, “respecting that stabilization is based on people and not on vacancies, assessing the experience and the years worked in the specific job”.
In terms of migration, he has requested that a cooperation plan be carried out, in coordination with the European Union, with African countries, whose income levels and inequality force their population to emigrate.
Along these lines, he has reiterated the need for a mandatory distribution among the autonomous communities of unaccompanied immigrant minors in order for them to receive “proper care and avoid saturation of the resources available in the archipelago”.
The deputy has also requested that the UN resolutions on the legal and political status of the Sahara and its relations with the Kingdom of Morocco be complied with.
“It is essential to guarantee the democratic consultation of the Saharawi people to decide their future, in strict compliance with international law”, said Vidina Espino.
