Pérez: "The Parliament of the Canary Islands is experiencing the legislature with the greatest activity and closeness to the citizens"

The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, has carried out this Thursday the balance of the three years of the XI Legislature, a period that she has defined as a stage of institutional transformation marked by openness to citizens, modernization of the Chamber, and an increase in parliamentary activity.

During her appearance, Pérez highlighted that the Parliament has held 2,074 activities since June 2023, the highest figure recorded in the first three years of a legislature. In this period, 125 plenary sessions, 311 meetings of the Board, and 100 spokespersons' meetings have been held, in addition to the approval of 19 laws, including two popular legislative initiatives.

The president also underlined the advances in the modernization of the institution, with the renovation of headquarters, the improvement of infrastructures of bodies attached to the Parliament, the conservation of historical heritage, and the incorporation of new technological tools that have allowed for strengthening transparency, accessibility, and citizen participation.

Among the milestones achieved, she highlighted the implementation of real-time subtitling through artificial intelligence, the virtual visit to the Parliament, the elimination of paper with more than 84,000 digitally signed documents, the electronic processing of more than 6,000 amendments, and the growth of the institutional presence on social networks.

Astrid Pérez also emphasized the Chamber's openness to society. So far in this legislature, more than 103,000 people have visited the Parliament of the Canary Islands, a figure that far exceeds that recorded during the previous term. Added to this is the promotion of social, cultural, and recognition initiatives for Canarian talent, as well as the "Listening to Advance" project, with which the Presidency has brought the institution closer to different social groups on the islands.

In the European sphere, the president valued the role played at the head of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE), from where she has defended the interests of the ultra-peripheral regions and the need to guarantee European funding for territories like the Canary Islands in the next European Union financial framework.

Astrid Pérez concluded by thanking the work of the Chamber's staff and all the parliamentary groups, and reaffirmed her commitment to continue consolidating a Parliament "closer, more transparent, and more useful for all the citizens of the Canary Islands".