The senator for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, the socialist Manuel Fajardo, has stated that the leader of the Canarian Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, “lies in a tortuous way” when he affirms that the Bill of financial measures of social and economic support, approved this Wednesday, February 16 in the Senate, supposes “an attack on the Canarian jurisdiction” and has accused him of seeking “confrontation for confrontation's sake”.
“In reality, what has been achieved is something unprecedented and exceptional in the history of Canarian autonomy: a modification of the bill that ratifies that the business community of the islands has been able to materialize in 2021 what was endowed in 2016 in the RIC, plus a period of four years for those anticipated in the 2017 financial year,” said the representative of the Territorial Group of Socialists of the Canary Islands in the Upper House.
“A success that neither Clavijo nor his political formation ever requested in the previous crises that we have suffered in the Archipelago, and that the Government presided over by Ángel Víctor Torres has been able to achieve in this legislature,” says the senator.
Fajardo has also criticised “the way of doing politics” of the nationalist representative, “mixing the approval of this rule with Catalonia, the Basque Country, the extension of the ERTE, the Roads ruling, the transfer of powers, migration and unaccompanied minors”.
“It is still a hodgepodge of issues that have nothing to do with each other, except in the impotent mind of a former president of the Canary Islands who still does not accept his electoral defeat and who despairs because objective data confirm the excellent perception that Canarian citizens have of the Government of Progress and its president, Ángel Víctor Torres,” he adds.
For Fajardo, the behaviour of the CC senator in the Chamber itself is also “unintelligible”, leaving this Wednesday “once again” the hemicycle “without even staying to listen to the reply to his arguments”.
“It is true that the truth hurts and it seems that he has not yet become accustomed to the fact that he is not the last to speak,” he said, before urging the nationalist parliamentarian to attend all the plenary sessions “in order to bring to fruition a productive debate that justifies his deficient work”.
The socialist senator believes that Clavijo's will “never was to reach an agreement regarding the RIC”, and thus believes that it has become clear “during the negotiations of the amendments to the bill”.
“What they have done again, as they already did in the processing with film productions, is a pathetic cynical and victimist staging. Because what Clavijo's lie hides is simply the truth: what the senator is interested in is confrontation for confrontation's sake. If it were true that he believed that the approval of this law will cause the closure and ruin of many small and medium-sized Canarian companies, he could have helped to avoid it in very recent dates,” he said.