Santa Cruz De Tenerife (EFE).- The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, affirmed this Tuesday that the Chamber must work to strengthen the pillars of the welfare state based on consensus, respect and understanding, because this time ” it will require sacrifices” that must be faced “without partisan divisions.”
The highest representative of the autonomous legislative assembly spoke in this way during the speech with which she began the solemn opening session of the eleventh legislature today, which was attended by the former president of Parliament Antonio Castro, among other institutional representatives.
In her speech, Astrid Pérez assured that great challenges await society in the Canary Islands but, she continued, no matter how unstable the horizon may be, the island people have always found “the skill and the strength to get ahead.”
The present does not invite comfort but rather effort and work to continue making the Canary Islands the best possible in a troubled world, the president of the regional Parliament pointed out, to specify that in difficult times “we have taken fundamental steps and we have done it without divisions partisans”, since “unity is our best response to any adversity that arises”.
He has called for a Canary Islands in which the people are the first objective of each initiative taken in the chamber, in which not only deputies from different political formations sit, but also “more than two million Canarian men and women who hope that Let’s work for a better future.”
For this reason, he has listed the pillars of the welfare state that must be reinforced in a Canary Islands “that cares for and strengthens its main economic engine and generator of employment: tourism, in times of alarmist messages that forget the suffering and poverty that these islands endured. when no tourists visited them”.
At the same time, it has demanded that all institutions go hand in hand, with loyalty and a vocation for public service so that coordination and collaboration between all administrations is an essential value for common construction, and that they are effective and resolute “in the face of challenges what lies ahead.”
The president of Parliament has also demanded that we be firm in defending the Statute of Autonomy and efficient in promoting adequate, realistic laws and policies “adapted to our possibilities and resources, but also ambitious to offer opportunities and guarantee solidarity”, with the ability to always do so through dialogue and agreement.
Astrid Pérez has also highlighted that Parliament is “the common home of all Canarians, the home of words, dialogue, consensus, cordiality and respect for those who think differently” which, in its 40 years of existence, It has strengthened its role as the representative headquarters of the Canarian people and has exercised its functions “with commendable success”, to become one of the basic pillars of autonomy.
A body that must continue to be an example of calm, respectful, free and plural political debate, in keeping with the institutional dignity that it represents “and we represent”, continued Astrid Pérez, for whom Parliament “must be the mirror in which the Canary Islands look, a space of understanding, progress, coexistence and concord”.
“It is our obligation to meet the needs of those who live in the Canary Islands and respond to their concerns with the main objective of contributing to the progress of this Community and its common well-being”, Pérez stressed, making special reference to “those who most need our solidarity and the involvement” of Parliament.
And in this new legislature that begins today, the president has asked “to open ourselves even more to the society of the islands so that we can make them feel like their own this institution and the high values it represents”, for which she has asked “to work so that the Parliament of the Canary Islands stop being that great unknown for so many people who live on this earth”.
To achieve this, he has called for new channels of communication and citizen participation in the institution’s legislative activity, and has also expressed his conviction that “above legitimate political differences, we will be guarantors of respect, even in discrepancy, and of strict compliance with the law” since “we are here to serve and not to serve ourselves, without ever abandoning the straight path that our laws delimit”.
He has appealed for Parliament to be the true center of the political life of the islands “facilitating consensus at all times through dialogue, debate and confrontation of ideas” and for this, he has continued, it is necessary to bring positions closer, promote the search for agreements, favor moderation and mutual respect to jointly strengthen the pillars of coexistence and democracy.
“Let us know how to live up to the people we represent and aspire for the best possible Canary Islands: rich in values, tolerant, committed to equality between women and men, built from the prudence and rigor that characterizes us, but without ever giving up. to the legitimate ambition to improve”, Astrid Pérez added. EFE