Canarias tiene un límite (The Canary Islands Have a Limit), one of the organizing platforms of the mobilizations against mass tourism in the Canary Islands, called a rally last Sunday, February 16 in Tenerife while a meeting was held with a German tour operator, in order to denounce, once again, the "unsustainability of tourism policies" promoted by the Government of the Canary Islands and which, according to the group, are "designed in coordination with the tourism employers' association."
The civic platform has pointed out in a press release issued on Wednesday morning the "foolishness" of the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, for "asking social groups to participate with concrete measures in the process of change" proposed by the Executive itself and which has already been criticized by social movements for ignoring the main demands that motivated the 20A.
The group has described these statements as a "flight forward" and has indicated that Fernando Clavijo, has stated in relation to social groups that “not only have they been listened to, but a participatory process was opened (...). We have prepared a document with a series of measures (...) and we have opened a space for all those who want to contribute and who want to participate with their reflections to do so”. He adds that, “not only has there been listening, but we have a continuous listening process, we must put forward concrete proposals and in this case, what we are doing is with those strategies, together with the island councils and the city councils and with all the social and economic organizations, and the unions as well, working together on that improvement”.
From Canarias Palante (Canary Islands Forward), a participatory process made up of more than seventy groups from all the islands, they have considered it necessary to "correct" the Canarian president. Thus, they have defended that on May 10, 2024, the creation of a negotiation table was formally requested in which "all areas of political management in the Canary Islands and the spokespersons defined by social groups" were present. In said request, they proposed four issues agreed upon by civil society to be addressed as a priority, which, in addition, were the ones that led the 20A mobilizations: the implementation of the ecotax; the declaration of the tourist moratorium; the prohibition of the purchase of housing by non-residents; and the paralysis of projects that do not comply with urban planning or environmental regulations.
Canarias Palante has pointed out that
