Coalición Canaria has demanded that the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, be “inflexible” with Madrid and demand more vaccines for the Islands, after the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, confirmed that the Canary Islands had received fewer doses than other territories.
The national secretary of Organization, David Toledo, described as “unacceptable and alarming” that the Canarian Executive “has not protested for a new mistreatment of the State to the Canary Islands, when we are immersed in a fifth wave of consequences even more dramatic if possible than those experienced in the previous 15 months.”
Toledo reproached that the archipelago “is in the tail end of vaccination in Spain, just when there has been an exponential increase in infections.” He also assured that in addition to “lamenting in the Parliament of the Canary Islands what the Canarian president and the Minister of Health have to do is demand more doses from the Ministry of Health led by Carolina Darias, so that the Islands reach group immunity in the shortest possible time.”
The nationalist leader warned that the effect of the fifth wave “may have dramatic consequences and worsen the health, economic and social crisis.” In this context, he recognized the “titanic” work of the professionals of the Public Health to defeat the virus and of the citizens themselves, but defended that it “must be accompanied by greater firmness on the part of the Canarian Executive to achieve the 70% target with a complete vaccination schedule, which is still far away” in the archipelago as a whole.
David Toledo also valued the various judicial setbacks to the restrictions that the Government of the Canary Islands has tried to adopt after the end of the state of alarm, which he considers “only responded to political criteria.” He also accused the Executive of “improvising” continuously measures “based on what other territories do and on the situation of the Valencian Community, Catalonia or Cantabria, instead of planning measures capable of responding to the situation of the archipelago.” "We Canarian nationalists have demonstrated political will to lend a hand, a will that the Government led by Torres does not have, which runs into the no of Justice and the mistreatment of the State again and again," he reproached.
