The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has appealed for unity around four determining agreements, regional financing, the cancellation of the debt, the European economic framework and the Canary Islands decree, with the objective of providing the islands with a social and economic shield.
In his speech this Tuesday on the occasion of the debate on Canarian nationality, the president has stressed that reaching agreements "is not weakness, but strength", and has pointed out that the Canary Islands is not a sum of figures "but a country with memory, identity and legitimate aspirations" to fight for its coming generations.
Clavijo has asked for an exercise of collective reflection especially in the regional Parliament, where the sovereignty of the Canarian people resides, to foster a space for encounter, dialogue and reach great agreements with transparency and democracy "not for the future of this Government, but for that of the next generations".
Given the times "that we are having to live through", the president has said, the unity of the Chamber and of all society is necessary "because the future does not seem very calm" and it is necessary to face a social and economic shield for the islands.
"The lesson is that nothing will be the same, that what we previously believed established and unmovable has been blown to pieces and in the Canary Islands, outermost and fragmented islands, everything will cost us more and for this reason unity is important", Clavijo has reiterated.
