SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
In a statement on Thursday, the spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Sebastián Franquis, disclosed that the national government is prepared to pass a statutory instrument to expedite the transfer of unaccompanied migrant minors if the PP agrees to back it.
“Their affirmation is all that is needed,” he expressed during a press briefing to assess the initial year of the legislature, where he accused the Canary Islands’ vice-president and president of the PP in the region, Manuel Domínguez, of “playing games” with proposals that are already encompassed in the pact between the central and regional administrations.
Franquis hasn’t urged the Canarian PP deputies to act against party lines and deviate from their voting strategy in Congress, but he urges “consistency” and for them to cast their votes “in line with what the Popular Party is endorsing in the Canary Islands.”
Issuing a warning, he stated that if they fail to do so, the Popular Party would be “fabricating a significant political deception” by signing agreements and endorsing statements that they subsequently do not support in Congress.
“They need to desist from presenting nonsensical proposals. They were adamant that there should be a sectoral conference in the Canary Islands, and one was held, then they arrive in the Canary Islands and state that this issue isn’t up for discussion because it wasn’t on the agenda of that conference,” he recollected.
