The Canarian president assumes the failure to comply with the IGIC reduction but attributes it to the “unknowns” and lack of information from the central government
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, defended this Wednesday the “cohesion” and “determination” of his government to face the challenges and problems of the Canary Islands and has given itself a period of “four years” to fulfill all the promises electoral.
In a press conference to take stock of the first hundred days of government accompanied by the vice president, Manuel Domínguez (PP), he assured that they have not been “distracted” despite the fact that they have had to manage up to four emergencies – energy, climatic, migratory and water–, an energy zero in La Gomera and two fires in La Palma and Tenerife.
Along these lines, he has said that we must face the “structural deficits” of the autonomous community without forgetting “what is urgent” and has claimed the ‘roadmap’ of a “single Government” where, until now, the work of the counselors and counselors is “magnificent.”
Clavijo has acknowledged that it has not been possible to fulfill, for now, the commitment to lower the general IGIC rate from 7% to 5%, something that he has attributed to the “unknowns” derived from the central government’s refusal to set the ceiling. spending, deficit targets or interim deliveries.
However, he has pointed out that there has been a tax reduction in the 2024 budgets -professional diesel, veterinary, personal income tax, fuel bonus in the green islands, inheritance and donation tax bonus or the zero quota for the self-employed– and The relief plan will continue when there is more financial “slack.”
He pointed out that the regional accounts are “brave” because they budget for the “real expenditure” of services, with a total increase of 11% to 11,301 million. “We’re not going to tell anyone, I fell short,” she said.
The president also wanted to escape from the “stereotypes” that the next budget is ‘left-wing’ because it increases public spending and supports services, ironically saying that in the last legislature some 1,000 million more were spent on health and the results worsened. . “That’s bad management,” he explained.
Within the management balance of the first 100 days, Clavijo has also highlighted that next month the decrees for urban and agricultural reconstruction of La Palma after the volcanic eruption, the creation of a Flight Development Fund, the increase in beneficiary families in social rent or the elimination of the mandatory prior appointment with the administration.
Clavijo has valued that he is president after going through the Government and the opposition and thus having the vision “of both sides”, something that allows him to leave, as a summary of the government, his commitment to “dialogue and consensus” but also “determination” in decision making.
“INACTION IS ALSO MAKING DECISIONS”, SAYS CLAVIJO
“Inaction also means making decisions, we are going to have ideas and we are going to do them,” he noted.
Regarding the opposition, he has said that he was already “against” the Government before the pact was signed but prefers to stay with the “sweet” part, which was the signing of the Canary Islands pact for migration, from which only Vox has been left out. . “I hope that there is agreement on the important issues,” he said.
Domínguez has commented that “management has been the hallmark” of a Government where there is no distinction between CC and PP ministries and has given as an example the path marked together with the Ministry of Ecological Transition to guarantee the electricity supply in the Canary Islands, the reactivation of the hydraulic works agreement or the “first steps” of the tax relief plan.
He pointed out that the Executive’s objective is to “improve the quality of life” of citizens, he highlighted the increase in resources for citizen income, the objective of reaching more than 7,000 requests for the dependency law by the end of the year or has managed to enroll “in record time” the almost 1,200 children aged two to three years enrolled and whose centers were not prepared.
It has also influenced the shock plan to lower the surgical waiting list and another to make land available for the construction of public housing, the “strengthening” of tourism in dialogue with the subsector or the aid of eight million euros for the ranchers.
