SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 11 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The secretary general of the Canarian Coalition (CC), Fernando Clavijo, demands a real reconstruction plan on the island of La Palma after the volcanic eruption because there is a lot of “discouragement” among those affected and there is a certain risk that depopulation will begin.
“People are being sent to move,” he says in an interview with Europa Press on the occasion of the start of the political course in which, although he acknowledges that the people of La Palma “do not burn containers” as a protest, there are many people touched “psychologically” because some people “have lost even the grave of their relatives”.
Clavijo acknowledges that the attention in the first phase of the emergency has been “good” in the case of the ERTE or hotel accommodation, but now “it is time for reconstruction” and although the Government always speaks of many millions, the reality is that “it does not work “If they don’t see each other.
He gives as an example the banana plantations that “are waiting” and still do not have an answer about the valuation of the land or also those whose greenhouses fell because of the ashes that “pull debt or savings.”
He criticizes the fact that a year after the start of the eruption there are still some 200 people living in hotels and that it takes a year to install container-type housing apart from the fact that many people, especially the elderly, wonder if they are going to end their lives in a container .
Along these lines, he points out that “everyone went to La Palma to take a photo to see the volcano” but at the moment of truth “there is no body thinking of reconstruction”, in the case of a consortium that has requested its formation ” with a direction to orchestrate everything”.
Clavijo understands that the Minister of Housing, Sebastián Franquis, must focus on the homes of La Palma but also has to execute the rest of the Canary Islands housing plan and the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, is “agreeing with Bildu” on the rapprochement of the prisoners “or fighting with ERC to have La Palma in the lead”.
They do not hide that the reconstruction is “difficult” and for this reason they also proposed some palliative measures such as a 60% reduction in personal income tax for palm growers, which “would give them 200 euros more per month”, in line with what is applied in Ceuta and Melilla.
