Coalición Canaria has described this Tuesday as "alarming" the unemployment data registered in the Canary Islands, which place the archipelago with 61,188 more unemployed than a year ago, and warns that "the lack of political action" of the Canarian Government has "multiplied the social and economic damage caused by the pandemic."
For the nationalists, the data is "terrible" and although they admit that they are logically attributable to the health control measures that have been activated to control the pandemic, they consider that "the inaction" of the Canarian Executive "has acted as an accelerator" multiplying the impact.
Thus, from CC-PNC, the "inaction and delay" in taking measures to prevent the growth of unemployment by the Government of the Canary Islands is described as "frustrating", "which continues to arrive late and improvising", when they maintain that "since the month of April, proposals, alternatives, initiatives and actions have been suggested by the nationalists that, without a doubt, would have alleviated the negative impact on unemployment."
"We prepared a Reconstruction Plan for the Canary Islands, we have proposed a Tourist Rescue Plan, promised by the minister in Congress and Senate and of which nothing more was heard, a Rescue Plan for restoration, leisure and commerce and the response has always been silence," they point out in a note.
In the same way, they add that "from minute one" they demanded that the ERTE in the Canary Islands "not only focus on tourism but on all dependent activities as a formula to avoid the closure of thousands and thousands of companies and, again, the response was a frustrating silence from Madrid and a Government of the Canary Islands that remained silent and allowed it."
"We have been months", the nationalists continue, "putting proposals on the table, we presented in April a Reactivation Plan with more than 140 measures aimed, mainly, at alleviating the impact on employment, measures that were ignored by a Government that has opted for inaction as a roadmap."
According to the nationalists, "we cannot continue waiting for Madrid to take action if the central government does not take it, the Canarian Executive must act and should have done so months ago but preferred to bow its head and continue as if the economic and social disaster that we were all seeing did not exist."
In that line, they indicate that "the Canarian Executive cannot continue behaving as a witness to what happens, it must make decisions, it must act and from the loyal and committed opposition, not one, not two, but many dozens of plans, proposals, initiatives that, with the knowledge that CC accumulates in management, would have had a positive impact" have been sent to them.
Youth unemployment "unleashed"
CC-PNC also warns that the most relevant thing about these data is the "very high" growth in unemployment for those under 25 years of age, which has grown in the Canary Islands by 62.54% in 2020.
"The highest youth unemployment figure in Spain and Europe is an alarm that tells us about a lost generation if action is not taken with courage and immediately," they emphasize.
General unemployment grows in Lanzarote in 2020 by 61.3%, in Fuerteventura by 57.2%, in Tenerife by 31.2% and in Gran Canaria by 22%, to which is added the "collapse" of permanent contracts by 47% and the fall in more than 43,000 affiliates to Social Security.
This last piece of data, they indicate, "tells us about the direct destruction of jobs" and it is there "where we have the greatest challenge, which is none other than to avoid the definitive closure of companies, because it is not the same to relaunch a productive activity temporarily paralyzed than another where its closure is definitive."
