SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Grupo Nacionalista Canario, José Miguel Barragán, has valued the inauguration speech of the candidate for the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo (CC), because he has been able to demonstrate that, contrary to what the opposition maintains, “yes things can be done” with better management.
At a press conference, José Miguel Barragán pointed out that the ‘Pact of Flowers’ will go down in history for having managed to get VOX to enter the Parliament of the Canary Islands, with four deputies, and that the vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands and leader of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC), Román Rodríguez, is not sitting in the Chamber.
Barragán maintained that Fernando Clavijo has tried to expose in his speech “where are the main problems of the Canary Islands and where the priority of his political and regulatory agenda will be in the Government, understanding everything that social policies are, fundamentally health”. In addition, he valued the fact that he has made a commitment to climate change when referring to the water situation of the archipelago.
The nationalist spokesman also explained that while the government chaired by Clavijo between 2015 and 2019 generated 45,000 jobs “having less money in the budget, without having the possibility of hiring public personnel, with the spending rules in place and with a growth of the economy of 3%”, the Government of the Pact of Flowers made it possible to create 27,000 jobs “with the spending rules removed, with more money than ever in the budget, with the largest public contracting in the history of the Canary Islands”.
For this reason, Barragán regretted that the opposition parties ensure that the things that Fernando Clavijo is proposing cannot be done: “Yes, they can be done. It has been shown before with fewer resources and more efficiency in spending. That is what proposed by the candidate in his speech: improve management”.
Regarding the PSOE and NC attacks on the reduction of the IGIC, he affirmed that this decrease is possible because the autonomous community has an “intact” debt capacity and because the collection of the IGIC in the first quarter was 30% higher, due to that “essential public services will not be endangered”.
“In short, let’s stop looking back. The Canary Islands now have a new opportunity. We have to look at all this through the rear-view mirror of the autonomous community’s past,” said Barragán, who assured that the Canarian Nationalist Group is not going to fall “or a millimeter” in the confrontation and will appeal for dialogue and consensus in the face of the “frontist policy” that the opposition parties have already announced.
