The candidate of the Canarian Coalition to the Senate for Lanzarote, Emilio Machín, regrets that the president of the State, Pedro Sánchez, continues to look the other way "instead of facing, assuming consequences and seeking solutions to the tragedy experienced by people who get on a boat or a canoe bound for the Canary Islands in search of a future."
"They either die trying or when they reach our coasts they find that from here, due to the neglect we suffer from the competent institutions, we do not have the infrastructure or the means to assist them with dignity," Machín emphasizes.
The latest statements by the president "have been the straw that broke the camel's back", he says. Sánchez has made it clear that among the priorities of the Spanish presidency in the Council of the European Union, "is not to seek solutions to the migratory drama that is experienced on the Canary route, where thousands of people lose their lives trying to reach the things of the Archipelago, especially those of Lanzarote, for being the closest island to the African coast," he adds.
The statements of the socialist president in a media outlet stating that "on the Mediterranean route, which is ours, it has decreased", "have fallen like a bucket of cold water", he points out.
"If the Canary route is not ours, then whose is it?", asks the nationalist candidate, who demands "the need for the presence of the Canary Islands in bilateral relations with Morocco, a European solidarity policy for the management of migrations", among other issues.
"We thought that with the Spanish Presidency of the EU, in the second semester of 2023, we could advance in the solution of this great problem, but it is clear that we must start at the beginning, teaching geography to Pedro Sánchez while the numbers of corpses continue to increase," he says.
And he concludes: "once again it is clear that only if we have representation of the Canarian Coalition in Madrid, will we know where the Canary Islands are because, apparently, we are the only ones who know it and, therefore, the only ones who care about our islands."
