The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has lamented that the first island institution "refuses to defend the Economic and Fiscal Regime of the Canary Islands (REF) and the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands", rejecting the motion presented by the nationalists to urge both the Parliament and the Government of the Canary Islands to file an unconstitutionality appeal in defense of the Canarian jurisdiction, "violated by the Congress of Deputies and the Government of Spain."
Likewise, it criticizes "the double discourse of the Popular Party, which while in the Canary Islands says one thing, in the Cabildo of Lanzarote it does the opposite and its councilors bow to the interests of the PSOE so as not to offend the president Mª Dolores Corujo and the PSOE, allowing the REF to be momentarily violated pending the Government fulfilling its commitment or not"
In this regard, the CC spokesperson in the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, explains that "although on July 19, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the deputy of Nueva Canarias (NC), Pedro Quevedo, made the charade of staging a pending agreement to be formalized by virtue of which the Government of the Canary Islands committed to respecting what they had not respected and undoing the outrage to our RE”, the truth is that only two days later (July 21), the Congress approved the Royal Decree Law, which reduces the Canarian differential, arguing, in addition and expressly, the Minister of Ecological Transition, in charge of defending said decree, that the REF was not being violated." "We believe that there has been no breach of the regulations and that the Canary Islands continues to have competitive advantages compared to the rest of the State,” San Ginés points out that the minister said verbatim
“How can we trust the promises of a government that denies it is violating the REF?”, asks San Ginés. “I am aware that both the central and regional governments consider this issue to be resolved, but it is not. We cannot trust the word of the central Executive, whose actions are directly contrary to its promises”, concludes the CC spokesperson in the Cabildo
