The President of the Canary Islands Government, Paulino Rivero, is optimistic about the outcome of the efforts being made by the Ministry of Development to avoid the 19-day strike called by the Aena unions, which would paralyze Spanish airports. Rivero announced this Thursday that he has maintained contacts with the Minister of Development, José Blanco, who has asked him to wait because "there may be news and even some agreement throughout this week."
Rivero advanced that this Saturday he will meet with the Minister of Tourism of the Spanish Government, Miguel Sebastián, and hopes to arrive at the meeting with "this situation already cleared."
The position of the regional Executive on this conflict is immovable. Rivero insists that if there is no agreement with the unions, "one hundred percent of minimum services should be decreed for the Canary Islands airports", or "any other exceptional measure that guarantees the full operability of the Canary Islands."
The situation of the islands and the mainland "is totally different", explained Rivero, because the Canary Islands "have no roads or trains to connect us, there are no alternatives to the plane." So "we are not going to allow or tolerate" that "the clear symptoms of economic recovery that have the recovery of tourism as a fundamental support" are harmed "by a strike that is intended to be generalized throughout Spain without taking into account the continent of the Archipelago".
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