The national general secretary of Coalición Canaria (CC-PNC), Fernando Clavijo, has asked the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, to take advantage of the visit of the head of the central Executive, Pedro Sánchez, to La Mareta, on the island of Lanzarote, to develop a political and social agenda that "goes beyond the typical photo and the timple", as well as to extract commitments that demonstrate that he "has the Canary Islands as present as the Basque Country or Catalonia".
Clavijo has indicated that CC "is happy to make commitments with these territories" but the Canary Islands "cannot continue waiting to resolve so many issues towards which President Sánchez has shown total indifference until now", according to CC in a press release.
Specifically, he pointed out that Torres' work agenda should include "key" issues for the archipelago, such as the settlement of the road debt, the transfer of coastal powers, the migration crisis, the Tourist Rescue Plan, the future of bananas and ERTE, the distribution of European recovery funds, the convocation of the Canary Islands-State Bilateral Commission to resolve the "non-compliance" of the REF, the reactivation of the RUP agenda with Brussels, the distribution of vaccines or the transfer of funds blocked in the General State Budgets (PGE) of this 2021.
In this regard, he considered that it would be a "total shame and a contempt" for the Canary Islands and its institutions if the meeting "is limited to a protocol photo and a coffee" at the holiday residence in La Mareta.
"What is expected of a president of the Canary Islands is that he convene a meeting at the Presidency of the Government, with an agenda, from which answers and solutions are obtained for the most punished territory" by the economic and social crisis, and "not" that he go to Lanzarote "to give Sánchez a handful of bananas," he added.
He has also asked the president of the Canary Islands for "total transparency" in the work agenda, both in the agenda and in the formal agreements that are adopted, while he considered "vital the incorporation" of the councilors of the different areas to make a "radiography as close as possible and propose solutions that solve the challenges and problems" of the Canarians.
For Clavijo, Sánchez's visit to Lanzarote, "even if it is for vacation, has to be an opportunity to reach out and listen to those who are bearing the weight of the economic and social drama" of the archipelago.
