Nueva Canarias meets in Lanzarote to oppose the “Clavijo mode” of doing politics

Román Rodríguez and Yoné Caraballo met at a press conference this Monday on the island to respond to the policies of the Canarian Government

February 3 2025 (18:38 WET)
Updated in February 3 2025 (18:38 WET)
NC Press Conference in Lanzarote
NC Press Conference in Lanzarote

The national president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC), Román Rodríguez, together with the island president of the Canaristas in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Yoné Caraballo, and the rest of the members of the parliamentary group, held a press conference on Monday morning at the island headquarters of the formation in Arrecife to reinforce their frontal opposition to the "Clavijo mode" of governing and doing politics.

This was expressed by Rodríguez, who mentions that "before a government that benefits the wealthy minorities by lowering their taxes, we need to defend a fair taxation where those who earn the most pay the most. Faced with those who are committed to more development and mass tourism, we must set limits to growth with an island-based moratorium, protect the territory, improve wages and implement a tourist tax; faced with real estate speculation, more public housing, containment of rental prices and incentives to mobilize empty housing".

Rodríguez has also referred to the "failure" in migration matters and the blockage of the reform of the immigration law that allows the distribution of minors to the rest of the communities. Thus, the president of NC-BC has blamed both the government of Spain and Brussels for not getting involved in establishing more human and economic resources for the islands; and Clavijo for his condescension to the attitude of his government partner, the PP, which has done nothing but put a spoke in the wheels in the search for real solutions.

The Canarian president has finished his plea defending the unity of the Canarian left in the face of "the wave of the extreme right and reactionary movements". He points out that it is "obligatory to block the entry of far-right parties such as Vox, which in the Canary Islands has entered local institutions in Teguise and Arona at the hands of CC".

 

The government that "has mistreated Lanzarote the most in the history of the Canary Islands"

For his part, the deputy and island president of NC-BC in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Yoné Caraballo, has pointed out the political action that he will carry out in Parliament to "defend the interests of the people of Lanzarote" in the face of what he has described as "the government that has mistreated us the most in the history of the Canary Islands".

Caraballo denounces "the exclusion of Lanzarote and La Graciosa in the new distribution of the fuel bonus, where they are the only non-capital islands that are left out of this aid".

In addition, he points out the "deficiencies in health matters" suffered by the island derived from a "hyper-politicization of the current management" that blocks necessary services and infrastructures such as the implementation of the 24-hour Service in the Mala Health Center; the construction of the Argana and Playa Honda Health Center; and "does not provide solutions to the deficiencies in the Valterra and Playa Blanca Health Centers".

In reference to island politics, Yoné Caraballo has referred to the government of the Cabildo as a "government immobile in the face of the island's challenges".

"We will propose measures in the debate on the Island Plan and on limiting the population growth of the island, the resizing of public services, real housing policies, sustainable mobility and protection of the territory," says Caraballo, who "is committed to a broad and transparent debate that lays the foundations for building an island with greater levels of well-being".

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