The plenary session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands has rejected this Wednesday, with the votes of the Government groups and Vox, joining the achievement of a State pact against the Climate Emergency or providing criteria that reflect the singularities of the islands.
The initiative was proposed by the PSOE and supported by NC, but the Government groups rejected it because they considered that the Canary Islands' singularities are not included, while Vox argued that this initiative responds to climate fanaticism.
The proposal, defended by deputy Alicia Vanoostende, raised the recognition of the climate emergency as the greatest threat that humanity has to face, supporting Spain's international leadership and working from dialogue in achieving the State Pact against the Climate Emergency, proposing contributions that reflect the singularities of the archipelago.
Vanoostende reproached the government parties for refusing to support a State pact against the climate emergency when the archipelago is precisely one of the most threatened regions and has had a defined policy since the last legislature.
"This is not a party or government pact, it calls on all of us," argued Vanoostende, while Luis Campos, from Nueva Canarias, stressed that the proposed pact opens a framework for dialogue in which the islands must participate to incorporate their singularities.
Évora Soto, from CC, justified her rejection on the grounds that the proposed State pact does not mention the Canary Islands nor are there commitments to the singularities of the islands, while for Raquel Díaz, from the PP, the initiative is a flight forward by the Government based on empty declarations.
The lack of solutions for the Canary Islands or mention of their singularities were also the arguments of Jesús Ramos Chinea, from ASG, and Raúl Acosta, from AHI, to vote against.
Nicasio Galván de Vox, denied that climate change has any relation to this summer's fires or with the dana of Valencia and attributed the initiative of the Government of Spain to the "climate fanaticism"
