Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The general secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, has asked the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, to take advantage of the events together with the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, to “act as president of the Canary Islands » and ask him about Morocco.
In the coming weeks, “important events for the future of the Canary Islands” will be held, such as the meeting in Rabat, “where the Canary Islands will be the great absentee”, despite the fact that “decisions will be made that will affect us significantly permanent,” Clavijo said at a press conference.
The regional president, he has said, has been “downplaying the fact that the Canary Islands are not in these meetings with Morocco” as an “obedient president”, for which tomorrow at the presentation ceremony of Carolina Darias together with Pedro Sánchez asks him to give explanations.
Clavijo wondered if Torres “was aware of the turn in international politics and Spain’s relations with Morocco or the April 7 meeting between Sanchez and Mohamed VI” and if he knows “of the mineral and oil extraction permits in waters close to the Canary Islands.
He has also asked him to take the opportunity to ask the President of the Government of Spain “about the definition of the median and international waters that Morocco has appropriated.”
It is, according to Clavijo, “nonsense” that has been committed with the Canary Islands and where Torres now has “an opportunity to act as president of the Canaries and not obediently doing what Sánchez says.”
Canary Coalition “yes, it will do its job” and will ask for explanations of why “the Canary Islands do not participate in decision-making on issues that affect the islands.”
He will ask Torres to “remove all doubt”, because they are decisions that “mortgage the Canary Islands without the Canary Islands participating”.
For his part, the insular secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) in Gran Canaria and candidate for Parliament for the island, Pablo Rodríguez, stressed that in this party event tomorrow, Torres can “ask Sánchez to clarify issues that are vital for the Canary Islands.
In the same way, he has demanded that he ask Sánchez why “he has not given an answer” to the Canarian families, because “in the anti-crisis packages he does not contemplate a single specific measure for the Canary Islands or for the strategic sectors of the archipelago.”
Torres is “delegate and obedient to Pedro Sánchez before defending the interests of the Canary Islands”, for which he proposes that “instead of giving him a timple, ask him to respond to the challenges of the archipelago and the families.”
For Rodríguez, “measures for the archipelago” are necessary because “it is not normal for there to be aid for all the autonomous communities and not for the Canary Islands.”
For the CC candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Torres “cannot continue living in the metaverse, in an unreal space” because “the truth is that the canaries are worse than four years ago.”
He stressed that “it is not a pessimistic message, things can be changed” but “with measures” because in his opinion “the Government of the Canary Islands is committing resignation of functions.”
The deputy in Congress for CC and candidate for the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, María Fernández, has agreed with the words of her colleagues, inviting Ángel Víctor Torres to make this act “more than a walk and a photo”.
Regarding the measure of free transport in the Canary Islands, he has insisted that on the islands there are “conditions” that other communities do not have, in a policy of “wanting to harm CC, but they harm families.”
He stressed that the PSOE “cannot continue thinking about the elections but about families” and recalled that on the islands there are “580,000 people at risk of social exclusion, and youth unemployment of 47.3%.”
For Fernández, these “alarming figures” are reason enough for Ángel Víctor Torres and Pedro Sánchez “to sit down and talk to each other” for the good of the Canaries. EFE