Coalición Canaria in the Cabildo will urge the Corporation, through an urgent motion to the plenary session this Friday, to "urgently enable" and, with its own resources, "direct aid to the livestock, agricultural, fishing and transport sectors", which allow the survival of small and medium-sized companies and the self-employed, "suffocated by the rise in fuel prices and the increase in livestock inputs." This measure, according to the nationalists, is already being carried out on the neighboring island.
"Fuerteventura has announced this week that it will allocate six million euros for direct aid to the primary sector, and more specifically, four million in aid for livestock feed, and two million euros for maintaining employment in the agricultural and livestock sector, an example that the Cabildo of Lanzarote should take good note of," said the deputy spokesperson, Pedro San Ginés.
Likewise, CC proposes in its motion that the Cabildo agree to urge the Government of the Canary Islands "to temporarily eliminate the special tax on fuel, over which the Canary Islands have regulatory competence", as well as "to deduct 50% of fuel bills in the Personal Income Tax for the self-employed." In addition, it will also request "to enable extraordinary direct aid for feeding livestock of 220 euros per head of cattle on the capital islands and 280 euros on the non-capital islands."
"We believe that it is in times of economic suffocation when both the Government of the Canary Islands and the island councils must join forces to help the sector with the utmost urgency, because the situation requires it," says Pedro San Ginés.
