Nuevas Generaciones (NNGG) of Lanzarote and La Graciosa has shown in a press release its "most absolute rejection of the umpteenth contempt" of the Government of Spain towards the Canarian youth, after confirming that the new edition of the ‘Verano Joven’ program once again excludes air and sea travel.
The youth organization calls the measure a "centralist insult" and recalls that NNGG of Canarias "was the first political organization in the archipelago to raise its voice and publicly denounce this outrage two years ago, for both the 2024 and 2025 editions".
From NNGG of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, they lament the "institutional deafness" of the Minister of Transport who, for the third consecutive year, "is incapable of understanding the ultra-peripheral reality".
The president of NNGG of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Ana Hernández, assures that the state program continues to be designed "by and for the Peninsula", leaving the young people of the non-capital islands and, even more glaringly, of the eighth island, in a "situation of vulnerability".
“We were the first to denounce this nonsense two years ago and time, unfortunately, has proven us right: Pedro Sánchez's government does not care about young Canarians,” states Hernández.
"While a young person from Madrid or Andalusia can travel the country by train for four euros starting from their doorstep, a young person from Arrecife or Caleta de Sebo has to shell out hundreds of euros for plane or boat tickets just to get to the peninsula and start enjoying the aid. It is an intolerable comparative grievance," concludes Hernández.
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