The Canarian Pact for Migration maintains unity and demands a political agreement between the PSOE and the PP that allows the approval by the State of the decree law on migrant minors. After the meeting held today with the parliamentary spokespersons, the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, thanked the groups signing this agreement - all except Vox - for continuing to support dialogue and negotiation in search of an agreement that provides an urgent response to the more than 5,600 boys and girls that the islands currently host alone.
Clavijo considered it very important that the Canary Islands maintain this unity of action in migration policy and that the Canarian Pact constituted in October of last year remains firm, supporting without insurmountable fissures the urgent need for a regulatory change that guarantees the mandatory distribution of migrant minors among all Spanish regions.
In this sense, he thanked the spokespersons of PSOE, CC, PP, NC, ASG and AHI for their fidelity to the roadmap that "we all agreed and signed" and that in the meeting held just a month ago, on June 24, was ratified again with the only 'no' against Vox.
"The Canary Islands remain united demanding an urgent solution," said the President of the Autonomous Government. In view of this support, Fernando Clavijo remains optimistic that the path of negotiation will prevail and allow an agreement in the coming days, with the aim that the last Council of Ministers before the summer holidays, scheduled for next Tuesday, July 31, approve a decree law that would enter into force from its publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
The roadmap that the vast majority of the groups of the Parliament of the Canary Islands have once again endorsed this Friday calls for the change via decree law of article 35 of the Immigration Law to achieve a mandatory distribution of migrant minors among all regions when an autonomous community exceeds 150% of its capacity. In the case of the Canary Islands, it would be from 3,000 boys and girls. The autonomous community currently hosts more than 5,600 unaccompanied migrant minors.
To achieve a political agreement on the decree law, the head of the Government has guaranteed that he will continue working in the coming days, offering to participate and promote all the meetings that are necessary to add support that guarantees a solution to a humanitarian drama that affects the rights of children and that must be "above political confrontation".
The meeting held at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands was also attended by the Minister of Social Rights, Candelaria Delgado, the Minister of Education, Poli Díaz, and the Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Alfonso Cabello.
On behalf of the parliamentary groups, Sebastián Franquis (PSOE), José Miguel Barragán (CC), Luz Reverón (PP), Luis Campos, Jesús Ramón Chinea (ASG) and Raúl Acosta (AHI) participated. The spokesperson in the Autonomous Chamber of Vox, Nicasio Galván, could not attend the meeting.
