SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep. 6 (EUROPE PRESS) –
Podemos Canarias has once again rejected this Tuesday the collection of life salaries by the former regional presidents and has announced that the Sí Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group is preparing an amendment to the Law of the Presidency and Government of the Canary Islands, whose process will end in December, to guarantee that regional legislation excludes such a possibility.
After the reopening of the debate on lifetime remuneration for former presidents, the general coordinator of the purple formation, Laura Fuentes, affirms in a note that political representatives have “more than decent” remuneration during the time they have to exercise political responsibilities.
“When the performance of these functions ends, no person who has exercised those responsibilities should receive privileges for having held public office,” he stresses.
The rejection of this proposal is, according to Podemos Canarias, “pure democratic sense”, since on the islands, “hundreds of thousands of workers from all branches strictly comply with their years of contribution to access in the future to A Hostel”.
In his opinion, “pretending that certain political positions arbitrarily access lifetime pensions is an unaffordable idea for a people that demands empathy and exemplary character from their representatives.”
According to Fuentes, “those of us who govern are linked to the citizenry by a relationship of trust that must be cared for with a great deal of effort, since democracy is based on the basic idea of coexistence among equals.”
In this sense, he has stressed that those who hold political responsibilities must “advance the principle of equality, never to draw new imbalances between those who govern and the citizenry as a whole.”
