The president of Canarias, Fernando Clavijo, has lamented that "neither one nor the other want the little black people in Spain, that is the reality", in reference to "the lack of will" of the State Government and the autonomous communities to share the attention to the migrant minors that Canarias harbors.
Clavijo has spoken like this in the plenary session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, where he has answered several questions about the result of the Conference of Presidents of last week due to the lack of support on the situation of migrant minors, whose distribution, in his opinion, will only be achieved because the courts order it, not by political will to respect human rights or by solidarity.
The Canarian president has blamed the Government of Spain for failing to comply with the order of the Supreme Court that orders it to integrate migrant minors seeking asylum into the international protection network.
Only when the Supreme Court has threatened the Government of Spain with coercive fines, has Canarias received a letter from the Secretary of State for Migration requesting a meeting, the president has said.
The reality is that "neither one nor the other want the little black people in Spain", Clavijo assured after the PSOE spokesperson, Sebastián Franquis, accused him of looking the other way when it is the autonomous communities of the PP and this party, which is a partner of the Government of the Canary Islands with Coalición Canaria, who boycott the distribution of minors.
"Canarias is like this because the Government of Spain has wanted it", Clavijo replied to the PSOE representative, since it is the State that is responsible for putting interterritorial solidarity into practice.
The president has stated that the Government of the Canary Islands will not "tremble its hand" if it has to take any autonomous community to court that refuses to comply with the Immigration Law, recently modified to enable the distribution of migrant minors from the Canary Islands.
Crispation in Madrid
He has recognized that "there were not many expectations" of the result of that Conference of Presidents because "political tension and crispation are installed in politics in Madrid", so in migratory matters "we can only wait for the judicial power".
"The movements are going to be made because the courts order them, not by political will to respect the human rights of minors or by solidarity with the Canarian people, who are alone facing this drama and doing what they can to give attention to those boys and girls", he stated.
For the PSOE spokesperson, Sebastián Franquis, the Conference of Presidents was used by the PP to go against the Government of Spain while Clavijo "looks the other way in the face of this institutional disloyalty", to the point that "his behavior is not neutrality, it is complicity".
While the PP tries to prevent the derivation from occurring, Clavijo's passivity before his partners makes his weakness and his lack of leadership clear, according to Franquis.
The Vox spokesperson, Nicasio Galván, who also asked Clavijo about this matter, stated that the Conference of Presidents served to "maintain the perks to separatism", due to the singular financing for Catalonia or the concessions to the PNV, a "racist and supremacist" party, in his opinion.
Clavijo replied that Canarias has much to thank the PNV and the lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, because at all times he has received their support for the distribution of migrant minors.
He accused Vox of encouraging the autonomous communities to violate the law and not accept any of the minors from Canarias.