Santa Cruz De Tenerife (EFE) ”and psychologically crushed after chaining crisis after crisis.
The Minister of Social Rights, Youth, Equality, Diversity and Youth, Noemí Santana, has indicated this Thursday after the approval of the norm in the plenary session of the Autonomous Chamber that it is the law with the greatest participation in the democratic history of the Canary Islands, and it will “undoubtedly” mean progress in helping the youth population to gain rights and opportunities.
In turn, the counselor continued, it also establishes responsibilities in public administrations, which must allocate resources, means and personnel to be able to articulate “efficient and effective” youth policies.
In the rule approved this Thursday, which replaces the 15-year-old law in force in this area up to now, the powers of the public administrations of the Canary Islands in youth matters are established, the Youth Policies Council is created, the Canarian Youth Observatory and the Canary Islands Youth Council, in addition to regulating the “Young Canary Islands” Awards and the creation of a Canarian Youth Information Network, among other issues.
On behalf of the groups that maintained amendments for the plenary session held this Thursday, and which were rejected, the popular deputy Hipólito Suárez has stressed that this law must serve so that young people find the best guarantee for the future in a “discouraged” society that leads the youth unemployment data in Europe.
In this regard, the popular parliamentarian reproached the Government for presuming that it does not leave anyone behind that it is doing so, “everyone except a certain Tito Berni”, he affirmed in reference to the “Mediator case”, while asking the future Executive canary that “complies” with the law approved this Thursday.
For the Nationalist group, Jesús Alexander Machín assured that the young people of the Canary Islands represent a generation that is undergoing crises and is psychologically crushed, which marks “a life frustrated and almost without hope” for a “battered” population for which the islands can be “unfortunate ”.
The socialist parliamentarian David Godoy indicated that young people from the Canary Islands have suffered for decades that weighs down their perspectives and personal commitment, but he considered that in this legislature the bases have been laid for a “pleasant” future with this law, which he described as a “tool fundamental to go to the rescue of the young people of the Canary Islands”.
Godoy conveyed a message of hope to the youth of the archipelago because, he said, today the fundamental pillars have been laid so that tomorrow it can be said that the youth of the islands have a better future.
Luis Campos, from Nueva Canarias, stressed that youth policies have gone from being related to leisure and free time to a norm of transversality, participation and training to guarantee that young people have the necessary autonomy to carry out, with equal conditions, his life project.
For Sí Podemos Canarias, the parliamentarian María del Río maintained that this is a “much desired” law that favors the autonomy of the young population and strengthens their ability to build their own life project, in addition to laying the foundations to claim their right to training, health, culture, sports, employment and access to housing that helps their emancipation.
The deputy of the Gomera Socialist Association, Melodie Mendoza, stressed that the rule will be “very important” for the construction of the future of the Canary Islands and stressed that it will force more investment in youth policies, in addition to promoting the creation of bodies that will establish a roadmap clear for youth participation.
The spokesman for the Mixed group, Ricardo Fernández de la Puente, said that a real boost will be given to policies in this area with the launch of the Canary Islands Youth Council, to underline that the law makes clear the powers between the administrations involved in its development with the aim of making it “operational and able to fulfill its functions of social utility”. EFE
