Arrecife (Lanzarote) (EFE).- The PP candidate for president of the autonomous community, Manuel Domínguez, has opted this Monday in Lanzarote for formulating a “Canarian pact” that ensures regulated immigration, taking into account the rights but also the obligations of those who arrive on the islands.
Domínguez opined that the PSOE government has failed in its migration policy in the Canary Islands, where the phenomenon has become “a humanitarian drama” with a route, he recalled, that is considered “the most dangerous and deadliest on the entire planet ”.
The candidate and also regional president of the PP has assured that his party proposes to reverse the situation with a prevention policy in the countries of origin and an improvement in border management.
Manuel Domínguez has accused the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE), of trying to “hide the reality” of the migratory phenomenon on the islands and has recalled that NGOs say that more than 6,000 people have died trying to reach the coasts of the archipelago .
“And that is an image that we cannot allow, because abroad we are selling an image of the Canary Islands as a prison or as a cemetery,” said the PP candidate.
Domínguez has advocated providing the State security forces and Maritime Rescue with sufficient means and personnel and installing the SIVE surveillance system in Lanzarote, a radar that “seeks to save lives”, which was bought with a PP government and which has not been placed yet.
The leader of the PP ended by saying that if what is happening with immigration in the Canary Islands were happening in Catalonia, “there would not be a problem, but, since we Canaries are second-class citizens, what happens happens, particularly in Lanzarote.” EFE