The deputies of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista Natalia Santana and Yone Caraballo have demanded this Thursday to the Government of the Canary Islands that the 20-cent bonus that is applied to fuel in La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, have its "immediate" translation to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
Santana and Yone Caraballo have explained in a press conference that they have presented allegations to the order that regulates that subsidy in the so-called green islands (La Gomera, La Palma, El Hierro) because not applying it in the so-called yellow islands (Lanzarote and Fuereventura) would be a discrimination.
The subsidy will be applied until December of this year and is extendable for another six months, Natalia Santana recalled, who added that already in the debate of the draft Law of General Budgets of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands for 2024 her party asked to subsidize fuel in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
A request that was rejected by the parliamentary groups that support the Canarian government (CC, PP, ASG and AHI).
The deputy of Nueva Canarias has insisted that the order of subsidy of fuel in La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro is "unjustifiable" not to apply it in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura when these last two islands have the most expensive shopping basket and suffer greater poverty.
Natalia Santana has pointed out that the productive system of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura is dependent on the services sector in greater proportion than that of La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, since in these there is more economic diversification.
Sometimes, according to Natalia Santana, "it seems that the regional government forgets that Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are not capital islands either."
Yone Caraballo stressed that it is not intended to provoke some islands against others, and commented that in the plenary session of Parliament on Wednesday the non-law proposal of Coalición Canaria that was approved, with the rejection of NC, was not for fuel to be subsidized in Lanzarote and Fuertenventura.
The one that was approved, Yone Caraballo stressed, is "smoke", since what was done was to urge the regional government to carry out a study on the possibility of applying the subsidy.