Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, (EFE).- The Canarian Coalition has warned this Monday of the risk it perceives that the central government modifies the 75 percent of what residents of the islands enjoy when traveling in the new Sustainable Mobility Law, reason why it will defend it with several initiatives.
The candidate for president of the Canary Islands and senator for the autonomous community, Fernando Clavijo, assured this Monday that “very difficult times are coming for Canary connectivity” and the achievements made can be lost.
The Canary Islands, for example, have not been excluded from the fees that airlines will have to pay for flight emissions from 2024 despite being an outermost region, so air tickets will become more expensive, which will affect the number of tourists who travel to the archipelago and employment, said Clavijo.
To this is added the European green tax and the absorption of Air Europa by Iberia, according to the CC candidate, who has highlighted the “negligence and neglect of both the Government of the Canary Islands and that of Spain before the EU” in this matter.
“Connectivity is in danger and that would mean the final blow for the economy and the Canaries,” according to Clavijo.
The candidate for president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and national deputy, María Fernández, has assured that the 75 percent of the resident discount “can be violated through the back door”, since article 48 of the Sustainable Mobility Law allows giving entry to requests that the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIRF) has already made previously, such as that the resident discount be applied according to personal income.
This article allows the Government to modify the current discount for Canarian residents, which “would violate the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF) and would mean a loss of rights for Canarians,” according to Fernández.
For this reason, CC is going to present several amendments to the law and request appearances in the Congress of Deputies.
The nationalists will ask for an additional provision that includes the uniqueness of the Canary Islands as an outermost territory. EFE