The spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Congress of Deputies, Cristina Valido, has demanded this Monday that the parliamentary groups work "until the last minute" to reach an agreement that responds to the migratory situation that the Canary Islands are suffering.
In this sense, Valido has stressed that "there is no fundamental element that prevents an agreement" between the majority of the groups in Congress. "It is time to abandon the tactic and respond to what really matters," said the Canarian nationalist deputy, "which is to give a fair and far-reaching response to the humanitarian crisis that the Canary Islands continues to respond to alone."
In this sense, Cristina Valido has asked that all parliamentary groups assume their responsibilities before a new round of contacts between Congress and the interministerial commission of the Government of Spain to seek an agreement that makes it possible to process, after the first refusal harvested last July by the Popular Party and Junts, the change of article 35 of the Immigration Law. "Time is showing us that political gridlock is not an option to solve this challenge that we already have here in the Canary Islands, and that will continue over time," the deputy said in an interview with the regional television.
"I have not lost hope that an agreement can be reached because both the Government of Spain and the party that intends to govern the State have to be up to the circumstances," said Cristina Valido. "I believe that after what happened in El Hierro, no one can ignore how necessary a political agreement is between the two main parties, it is urgent that they sit down and reach an agreement that is necessary not only for the Canary Islands but for the entire State because it affects all territories," the nationalist deputy said in view of a new round of negotiations for the reform of immigration legislation affecting migrant minors.
Cristina Valido has also addressed the tragedy that occurred this weekend in waters near the island of El Hierro with the shipwreck of a cayuco with more than fifty missing migrants. In this sense, the deputy of the Canarian Coalition has recalled that this type of shipwrecks "have been occurring for months and years in waters near the Canary Islands and that we do not see them, because unfortunately the bodies never appear nor is there news of survivors, does not mean that these tragedies are occurring, I insist, in a humanitarian drama that the Canary Islands continues to endure almost alone."
