The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, assured this Monday that the islands do not feel "heard" by the Government of Spain or by the European Union in the face of the "increase in migration in recent days."
During the official opening of the 2023-2024 school year in the Gran Canaria municipality of Moya, Clavijo lamented that "the response to the migratory movement is not being coordinated" and that the only response given is "to put up a wall" in the Mediterranean.
The Canary Islands president has stated that he "does not feel heard" by the Government of the Nation, but neither by the European Union, and added that migratory phenomena are "inherent" to humanity, so Brussels must "be clear" that it is not enough to just "cover up the Mediterranean and not care about what happens from there down."
"They have to give an answer and not put up a wall," he asserted.
"They have to give an answer and not put up a wall. It is not enough to just cover up the Mediterranean and not care about what happens from there down."
In statements to the media, he insisted that the Canary Islands Government Council will approve this Monday a "letter" to be sent to the President of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sánchez, requesting a "single command" when coordinating migration issues.
"What we said was going to happen is happening, what the NGOs told us and what the State Security Forces and Corps had told us." And, once again, it catches the Government of Spain "without the foresight, without the resources, without the material means and without having planned what will continue to happen in the coming months," Clavijo pointed out.
The Canary Islands president also confirmed that he has not received "any call from the Government of Spain in the last few hours, after the arrival of 1,173 people from the weekend to the islands."
And, in that sense, he has warned of the "state of the health and reception resources on the island of El Hierro," where "a large part of the people from the last few days" have arrived.
