SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 9 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition (CC9), Fernando Clavijo, has asked the Government of the Canary Islands this Monday to lower the general rate of the IGIC from 7% to 5% in 2023 to face a year that is “especially hard” for families and companies.
At a press conference, he said that this measure is “essential” to deal with the rise in prices, together with the elimination of the fuel tax, which could lower the price of diesel by around 22 cents and gasoline by another 26 cents.
Clavijo has criticized the “triumphant” speech of the Executive when it has given up managing the crisis and “denies reality” given that the Canary Islands suffer the largest increase in prices of the shopping basket, GDP per capita and the “gap” with the rest of Spain “enlarges” after the drop in VAT on basic products and the elimination of the 20-cent discount on fuel.
He has also called for “improvements” in transport since the livestock sector “can’t take it anymore” and has called for “forceful” actions before the European Union (EU) because the price of air tickets is going to rise by an average of 100 euros from 2024 due to the payment of emission rights for flights in European airspace.
The general secretary of the nationalists does not understand the “negligence and inattention” of the regional government since this measure is going to remove a million tourists from the archipelago and about 40,000 jobs, to which is added that doubts have not been fully cleared either with the ‘green tax’.
For this reason, it has asked the Spanish and Canary Islands governments to have “a front” before the EU, among other things because this year half of the continent is going to enter a recession or growth of less than 1% and 60% of the tourism market of the archipelago comes from the United Kingdom and Germany.
Clavijo has criticized the “irresponsibility” of the Canarian government by saying that “everything is going well” when there are 582,000 canaries at risk of poverty and the new citizen income barely covers some 30,000 families.
He has also said that the Executive “makes August with the collection” since the public administration is one of the great beneficiaries of the rise in inflation and the money “stays in the bank accounts” since no improvement is observed the services do not even help the groups that “are going through the worst”.
