The CC candidate for President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, assured this Thursday at the formal presentation of his candidacy that he is working for the nationalists to return to the Government after the May elections not because they want to "be in the seats again", but because he does not resign himself to the fact that "young people have no future" in the islands.
"We refuse to let people barely survive even with a job, to have no expectations, to have no illusion on the horizon that their conditions will improve. We do not want islands that fall into pessimism," said the former President of the Government at an event held at the Valterra socio-cultural center in Arrecife.
Clavijo stressed that he is committed to leading "a Government that puts citizens at the center of the system" and to putting the administration "at the service of citizens, not partisan interests, as is happening now with the Pacto de las Flores".
The Government of Ángel Víctor Torres is "far from reality", continued the nationalist candidate, who in order to "reverse this situation" advocates maintaining a permanent dialogue with society, seeking consensus and exchanging experiences, as he says he is already doing with his campaign of meetings with sectors and groups.
Fernando Clavijo maintains that the parties that make up the current Government, PSOE, NC, Podemos and Agrupación Socialista Gomera, did not present themselves four years ago to the elections to "carry out a project for the Canary Islands, but to remove CC from the institutions".
In his opinion, that is the proof that the so-called Pacto de las Flores "sought to sit in the seats, not to govern".
For the Secretary General of Coalición Canarias, the legacy left by the Torres Government "could not be worse" and is characterized by "the lack of management and opportunities for young people, the lack of support for the productive fabric to face the pandemic or the deterioration of essential public services".
"It is not a question of resources, because they have had more than ever, but of management, planning and work," said Clavijo, who maintains that his Government, "with 1,000 million less and 2,000 fewer health workers, improved the waiting lists and the average waiting time." "Now they are going from bad to worse," he said.
For the nationalist leader, this same situation is repeated in education, with a setback in the development of infrastructure, and in Vocational Training or social services.
"The Canary Islands are not doing well no matter how much they insist," warned Clavijo, who believes it is necessary for Coalición Canaria to return to the government of the islands' institutions to reverse a situation that he considers "unsustainable".
"I rebel against the Canary Islands not having more future, against it not being possible to open new opportunities. Because the Canary Islands are bad but can be good. For this it is necessary to work, manage, listen, attend and solve," he insisted.
The relationship between the Canary Islands and the central government has been another of the axes of the official presentation of the nationalists' candidate for president of the Canary Islands.
Clavijo stressed that CC does not want "institutions with their arms down that do not create problems for their bosses in Madrid", as he understands has happened with Ángel Víctor Torres.
The nationalist leader explained that in his party they have felt "alone and misunderstood by the Government of Spain, which still does not assume that the archipelago is a different territory".
In his opinion, the current Government of the Canary Islands "has remained silent and submissive to the discriminatory policies and the constant attempt to cut our historical rights applied by Madrid".
In tonight's event, the nationalists also presented their leading candidates for the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancor; and for Parliament for the island, Migdalia Machín.
