The deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, and insular president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-bc), Yoné Caraballo, wanted to join the social unrest over the protocol for the reception of migrant minors published by the Government of the Canary Islands (CC and PP), and which the senior prosecutor of the Canary Islands, among other personalities, has denounced for having tinges of “abandonment of minors.”
For Caraballo, “this protocol shows a drift towards far-right postulates by the Government of the Canary Islands led by Fernando Clavijo, which also hinders the search for a solution to this situation whose ultimate goal is the well-being of unaccompanied minors.” He goes on to say that “once its government partner (the PP) recognizes that it is not going to support the procedure to reform article 35 of the immigration law that will allow the distribution of minors throughout the rest of the State, CC seeks a confrontation with the Government of Spain using boys and girls as a shield.”
According to the Canarian, “there are already several social groups, the prosecutor's office and professionals who express that this protocol does not seek to improve the care of minors, but quite the opposite, to leave them in a legal and welfare limbo.” This fact, he says, “gives a terrible image of the Canary Islands, which, as an Autonomous Community with self-government, must guarantee and ensure fundamental rights, and mainly, comply with the law and the Constitution.”
“If CC and Fernando Clavijo do not like the law, they have it easy, demand that the PP use its strength in Congress to change it,” says Caraballo, who sees that “the nationalists of CC have thrown themselves into the arms of the most ultra and reactionary theses of the PP and Vox, in addition to breaking the political and social consensus derived from the Canarian Pact for Migration.”
On the other hand, the top leader of the Canarian formation in Lanzarote asks the Island Council not to be an “accomplice” of the protocol of his colleagues in the Government of the Canary Islands, arguing that “the area of social welfare must prioritize the rights of the minor and their custody and not the doctrines that are marked from Tenerife and Madrid.”
“I appeal to the sensitivity of Councilor Marciano Acuña to stand up to a protocol that could lead to legal proceedings for the possible violation of fundamental rights,” says Yoné Caraballo.
