The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has lamented the lack of response from other autonomous communities to the distribution of unaccompanied immigrant minors and the loneliness in which they leave the archipelago.
"Everyone understands you, everyone understands, but everyone leaves the Canary Islands alone, and here the only ones who have been there from minute zero has been the Government of the Canary Islands", Clavijo said shortly before a meeting of the Canarian Coalition.
"We know that it will not be easy, one thing is what some community may say, but I am convinced that there will be others who are willing to collaborate and assist the Canary Islands in the emergency situation we are in", the Canarian president said.
In his opinion, in the end it will be the State, the Council of Ministers, that approves a decree law for the distribution of immigrants, which must be validated in the Congress of Deputies.
Clavijo has highlighted the support of Euskadi for the reform of the immigration law, and the Canary Islands is trying to seek the support of the different political groups to obtain the necessary number of votes in the Congress of Deputies.
Regarding the position of the PP, Clavijo has assured that the PP of the Canary Islands supports the measure and the president of the Canarian popular, Manuel Domínguez, "is working hard within his party to break those barriers of insularity."
"The PP will have to decide if, a party that wants to govern Spain in the future, is capable of leaving the archipelago completely abandoned in an emergency situation like the one we are in in the Canary Islands."
"I find it hard to understand that a party that is fighting for the integrity of Spain, a party that wants to govern Spain and is an alternative government, is capable of abandoning an autonomous community in an emergency situation, because the Canarians have shown solidarity throughout history in many emergencies", said the Canarian president.
In the case of Valencia, for example, the Canary Islands has renounced funds that would correspond to it from the State to help its reconstruction, "that is the basic principle of a state", according to Clavijo.
