Fernando Clavijo presented this Saturday before the National Political Council (CPN) his candidacy for the General Secretariat of the Canarian Coalition after having 97.7% of the endorsements, with which he aspires to renew his mandate next weekend at the VIII National Congress of the Canarian Coalition, which will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on April 5th and 6th.
The candidacy includes the proposal of David Toledo as national secretary of Organization and 35 people that corresponds to 60% of the members of the CPN: Migdalia Machín, Oswaldo Betancor, Echedey Eugenio, Olivia Duque, Román Cabrera, Alejandro Marichal, Beatriz Calzada, Francis Candil, María Fernández, Luis Suárez, Fabiola Calderín, Miguel Ángel Acosta, José Gilberto Moreno, Carmen Vega, Ana María Oramas, Rosa Dávila, Cristina Valido, Ana Isabel Dorta, Carlos Alonso Rodríguez, José Manuel Bermúdez, Francisco José Hernández Rodríguez, José Alberto Díaz Domínguez, Víctor Manuel Díaz Domínguez, Carmen Teresa Medina, Ignacio Moreno Marichal, Lola García Martínez,Cristóbal de Vera, Nereida Calero, Lázaro Cabrera, Horacio Umpierrez, Antonio Manuel Acosta, Amanda Davinia Barrios, Gregorio Clemente Alonso Méndez, Sergio Rodríguez e Idaira Pérez.
In this sense, everything is ready for the VIII National Congress of the Canarian Coalition to take place next weekend, which will have the participation of 329 delegates and in which three presentations will be debated on the policies to promote the sustainability of the Canary Islands; the Canarian national identity and the place of the Canary Islands in the State and in Europe.
David Toledo recalled that the VIII National Congress “is the most participatory of recent years, and that these three presentations have received a total of 289 amendments.”
Toledo stated that “this is the best sign that a deep debate has taken place in the local, island and youth committees, which is still taking place, in allusion to the one that will take place tomorrow, in La Palma.”
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The Political Council also addressed recent issues such as the modification of the Immigration Law and the precautionary measures ordered by the Supreme Court, obliging the State to integrate into the state protection system those unaccompanied minors who arrive in the Canary Islands requesting political asylum.
The nationalist body congratulated Fernando Clavijo for the work he has led as president of the Canary Islands in these 19 months to ensure that a balanced and supportive system is finally articulated so that the archipelago does not have to assume, alone, the reality that marks the constant arrival of unaccompanied minors from ports in West Africa.
On the other hand, they celebrated that the Canary Islands were right when the Government's legal services raised a requirement from the Autonomous Community requesting the Supreme Court to force the Government of Spain and the General State Administration to comply with “their constitutional and legal obligations in matters of asylum and international protection related to unaccompanied migrant minors.”
Precisely in this context, Clavijo was optimistic that, finally, on April 10, the day on which the Decree Law for the modification of article 35 of the Immigration Law that he pointed out “is already in force” will pass the procedure in the Lower House with greater support after the pronouncement of the Supreme Court on the State's obligation to assume the reception of minor asylum seekers “and that it be a great State agreement, which is what it should have been from the beginning.” In this sense, he insisted that “we have to be able to agree on something as basic as the protection of children and minors,” he emphasized.
