The Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, said this Friday, before participating in the Conference of Presidents, that he does not believe that "the numbers add up" to reach an agreement on immigration matters in this session, such as the one that this autonomous community and the Basque Country will put on the table.
"We are not coming in the best political context, I am not very optimistic about the possibility that important agreements for citizens will be reached," he said, recalling that "the regulations establish that agreements must be made with the Presidency of the Government and, at least, two thirds of the autonomous communities."
In this Conference of Presidents, Clavijo will ask his fellow presidents of autonomous communities "to please stop using tactics to delay the departure -from the border territories to which they arrive by sea- of children who travel alone," while reminding them that "we already have a law" that establishes how to do it.
"I can understand that they appeal it, if it is causing damage to their communities, but not that the departure of these children is delayed because we are violating their rights. To
the State, tell them that it makes no sense for the Supreme Court to have to tell them, for the third time, that they have to comply with the law and that those unaccompanied foreign minors who have requested political asylum are their responsibility and they have to put the resources and means" to take care of them, Clavijo said, according to statements released by the Canarian Executive.
However, the president of the Canarian Executive, which is co-governed by CC and the PP with the support of ASG and AHI, has expressed confidence that "today, having them all seated, I can stir those consciences and that some and others stop looking for excuses and that the national law and the international treaties that protect these children are complied with."
"We have to define a response as a country to this circumstance, we cannot leave the communities that are border alone, we have to have a state system, which is what was sought with that modification of article 35 of the Immigration Law so that solidarity is shared among all the territories, here we all have competences," he added.
In any case, "since the agenda has not been agreed upon," for Clavijo this Conference of Presidents "already starts badly," which is added to the fact that "there has been no prior work between the technical teams of the autonomous communities and the different ministries."
Therefore, he said, the PP communities "bring a series of agreements, the Canary Islands and the Basque Country raise one on immigration matters, which has not been possible to work with the State Administration, and, on the other hand, the State has put, in the form of a letter, an agreement on the table on housing matters."
On this matter, the Canary Islands "will defend that the State can modify the Basic Law of Local Regime so that, through tax figures and restrictions on residence, the acquisition of homes by foreigners can be limited."
"And, given that there will be public economic resources, 7,000 million of which 40% are contributed by the autonomous communities, the Canary Islands will ask that they be allowed to use the surplus to the local and autonomous corporations."
