Izquierda Unida Canaria (IUC) has criticized that they are "playing Russian roulette with the future of the Archipelago", authorizing oil exploration off the waters of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and has insisted that this decision makes "no sense from the logic of popular will", but it does make "a lot of sense from the logic of attending to the interests of a private company."
This was stated by the leader of IUC, Ramón Trujillo, in an interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, where he explained that this formation has filed a contentious-administrative appeal against the explorations and has also made a battery of parliamentary questions on this matter. In addition, Trujillo spoke about the connection of the company Sacyr, "a company that owns Repsol", with the alleged illegal financing plot of the PP. Specifically, Sacyr owns 9.53 percent of Repsol's shares.
"The former president of Sacyr is one of those accused of the alleged illegal financing of the PP. These days, the alleged illicit donations to the PP by this company have been confirmed," Trujillo warned. In this sense, he referred to the report made by the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF) of the National Police, which reflects that the administrations governed by the PP awarded public contracts for a total value of 12,281 million euros to 12 companies that had made important donations to the party and that appear in the famous papers of the former treasurer of the PP, Luis Bárcenas.
"All this leads us to explain why Spain is among the world leaders in kilometers of high-speed deficit and ruinous, why it has highways whose concessionaires have gone bankrupt, why it has twice as many airports as a country like Germany. All the unnecessary infrastructures that have been made and that we continue to pay for may have to do with that model of politics interfered with the power of money," he said.
For the leader of IUC, this is also "corruption, whether legal or not," because "corruption consists of instrumentalizing public institutions to make decisions in which public resources are used for the benefit of a wealthy minority at the expense of the interests of the majority."
In this sense, Trujillo has warned that corruption "can become legalized, to admit that private entities finance parties, when it is obvious that it is not a financing to an NGO, that it is not an act of charity and solidarity, but an investment," he said. "I remember a Canarian businessman who recently said that he had put money in the three main parties of the Canary Islands. You have to be very naive to think that this is a concern for the common good and not because politics satisfies their interests," he insisted.
"Zombie deputies"
Regarding the weight of Izquierda Unida Canaria in the Archipelago, Trujillo has assured that IU is being "reconstituted in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura." "The militancy is growing," he said, while criticizing "the difficulty" that this formation has to have representation in the Canarian Parliament. "We have the most fraudulent Electoral Law in the world," he criticized.
In this sense, he explained that a party like IUC "has to get 30 percent of the votes on an island to access Parliament." "Here, in the Canary Islands, there is a caciquism that makes 17 percent of the Parliament of the Canary Islands not represent anyone. They are zombie deputies, who do not have the vote of a single living person behind them, but it is a representation stolen from the citizens. There are 10 deputies who do not represent anyone. It is enough to steal the representation from a part of the citizens. The Canary Islands have a democratic deficit that must be corrected," he assured.
"Erase the social aspects of the Constitution"
Trujillo has also spoken about the serious situation that the unemployed of this country are going through and has assured that it is necessary to propose "modifications" in the State. "It is necessary to present a proposal to create employment, it is necessary to obtain resources to finance employment plans, through tax fraud and high incomes," he defended.
However, he believes that the measures of the PP such as the labor reform, which "has made lose twice as many jobs", go in the opposite direction. "It is a policy of undermining labor rights, of maintaining a mass of unemployed, of making changes in working conditions. It is taking advantage of the crisis for that. And there is no way out of the crisis with unemployed and falling wages, because people cannot consume and, therefore, there is no demand," he said. "We are witnessing a process of erasing the social aspects of the Constitution and an imposition of a social contract downwards that is very serious," he denounced.
Therefore, the leader of Izquierda Unida Canaria believes that the "State has to raise money urgently," with the fight against tax fraud or with high incomes, and inject these resources "quickly into the real economy." For this formation, also the nationalized banks should "inject credit and with low interest rates."