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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Coalition (CC) valued this Tuesday the third package of anti-inflation measures approved by the Governing Council and which it described as “insufficient” because, alert, it once again leaves the Canary Islands out.
The national secretary general of the Canary Islands Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, maintained that “Sánchez gives citizens in the Peninsula tax bonuses that the Government of the Canary Islands refuses to apply to the Canary Islands sectors”, despite the fact that the nationalists proposed them since the beginning of the rise in prices a punctual tax reduction and aimed at certain sectors.
The leader of the Canarian nationalists criticized that the new measures announced today by Pedro Sánchez after the Governing Council “remove the Canary Islands even further from Spain and represent a package of millions of euros of which “the Canaries will not see a single euro” .
In this regard, he added that “those that are maintained leave the Canary Islands the same and those that are suppressed, such as the 20 cents per liter of fuel, also decline in the archipelago and the new ones will not reach the Canary Islands” to assert that “the islands leave worse stops than before today’s announcement”.
The nationalists remember that they have been demanding a drop in the IGIC for months, aimed at certain groups and sectors that still has not been addressed.
In this context, the also candidate for the presidency of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, censured that “the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres has refused to apply the recipes that Pedro Sánchez will apply in the Peninsula, such as lowering taxes, just for carrying the opposite of CC, which was the first force to propose to the Canary Islands government a tax cut on the islands to fight inflation and alleviate the tax burden on families”.
Likewise, the nationalists censure the “zero sensitivity” of the Government with the islands when it is one of the hardest hit by the price increases registered in recent months, CC collects in a note.
Regarding the rest of the measures, such as that linked to public transport, the gas-intensive industry, specific aid to sectors such as ceramics and other subsectors or the tax cuts on butane or electricity “do not affect the Canary Islands” or leave it as was.
Likewise, regarding the check to the most vulnerable families, although they were in favor, they pointed out that “rationing the measures” as the Government of PSOE-Unidas Podemos does, what it is doing “is putting patches on the problems of families but not solve their problems.
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In this line they denounce that “aid cannot be linked to the pre-election calendar but to the real situation of citizens, families and the economic fabric, fundamentally, SMEs and the self-employed”.
Although they recognize that it is necessary to undertake measures to alleviate the effects of inflation that has come to exceed 10%, “what cannot be done is to approve them little by little, taking citizens to the limit” and much less leaving territories behind that, they assert, “they need specific measures to attend to their reality, as is the case of the Canary Islands”, which not only has been left out of the package of measures announced today by Sánchez but also does not have a specific package from the Government of the Canary Islands so that Canarian families and the economic fabric face the rise in prices.
The nationalists also recall that since the price increase began, they proposed a package of measures in the Canary Islands, among which was a generalized tax cut from 7 to 5% and a decrease of 0.5% in the regional section of personal income tax in order to compensate rising prices and inflation.
Measures, they point out, are viable for the Government of the Canary Islands, which, they recalled, “had collected more until October 31 of this year than in all of 2019.”
The nationalists also point out that “to the lack of an action plan that responds to the situation of vulnerability that many families and the economic fabric of the islands are going through, this new setback by the State is added, once again attacking a plan to combat the inflation that neither takes into account nor affects the Canary Islands”.
In the same way, they rejected the suppression of the bonus of 20 cents per liter of fuel as of January 1, 2023, which will be limited for carriers.
In this sense, they insisted on demanding that the Government of the Canary Islands assume direct aid in order to alleviate the high fuel prices on the islands.
