The President of the Government of the Canary Islands and Secretary General of the Canarian Coalition (CC), Fernando Clavijo, reiterated today his party's rejection of the amnesty for those involved in the 'procés' for considering it "immoral" and added that he will fight against the norm, despite the fact that he will vote in favor of the investiture of the socialist Pedro Sánchez.
"From minute zero we said that we were against the amnesty," Clavijo said at a press conference in Brussels, in which he avoided entering into "legal assessments" of the legal text, but stressed that it is an "immoral" norm because "it is not born of a general interest but of a particular interest of a candidate" to overcome the investiture.
The Canarian president assured that the Canarian Coalition will support Sánchez's investiture because the socialist leader already had 178 votes, so one more seat would not change the result, and allows his formation to "negotiate that the Canary Islands are on the agenda".
"We are going to vote against, we are going to be tough", added Clavijo, on the amnesty law.
The Canarian nationalist leader assured that the agreements that the Canarian Coalition may reach with the PSOE in local administrations are "watertight compartments" in relation to the investiture and the amnesty.
"In no case has the PSOE's support for the Canarian Coalition in mayoralties such as that of La Laguna, where the nationalists could join the local government, been the subject of negotiation."
What has been negotiated with the PSOE, Clavijo added, is "the Canary Islands agenda" and "the response" of the State to the arrival of unaccompanied migrant minors to the archipelago, he declared.
Clavijo appeared before the media in the European Parliament after meeting with the president of the liberal group Renew Europe, Stéphane Séjourné, and with the Ciudadanos MEP Adrián Vázquez, president of the parliamentary committee on Legal Affairs, as a starting point for a three-day agenda focused on immigration and aviation taxes.
The president of the Canarian Government will also meet this Thursday and Friday with officials from the other two major parties in the European Parliament, Social Democrats and Populars, as well as with diplomatic officials from Spain and Portugal, senior officials from the European Commission and, to close the trip, with the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, responsible for the area of migration.
