The president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC), Román Rodríguez, opposed the “decretazo” of the Government of CC and the PP that weakens the pioneering law to face the climate crisis in the Archipelago. Rodríguez censured the “caciquiles” forms of the pact of the Canary Islands rights with the imposition of the reform of one of the main norms for the sustainable development and the future of the islands. The canarismo of progress demanded the participation of the Parliament by means of its processing like a bill.
The modification, via decree law, of the Climate Change and Energy Transition law of the Canary Islands, for NC-BC the most important together with the Canary Income of Citizenship approved in the past legislature, is “alarming” both for the forms and for the substance.
Modifying a law “highly agreed upon, expected and pioneering without listening to citizen movements, nor to the councils, nor to the town halls and even less to the Parliament", in the opinion of Román Rodríguez, is a “mistake that we will end up paying very dearly”.
Nueva Canarias denounces the cuts and the relaxation of the controls of the environmental guarantees to “favor, as always, the speculators”, which results in the developmentalist and denialist model defended by the partners of the pact. One expression “more of the insensitivity” of the two rights with the multitudinous popular clamor of the past April 20 (20A), expressed in all the islands under the slogan of Canarias has a limit.
After emphasizing that, from Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista, “the changes agreed in the Bilateral Commission Canarias-Estado are not discussed”, Rodríguez criticized that the decree law reduces the measures of adaptation to climate change, energy efficiency and the fight against energy poverty. In addition, the strategy for a just and social transition is eliminated and the obligations are weakened, with which “the objective of addressing the climate emergency with guarantees vanishes”, warned the head of progressive canarismo.
Román Rodríguez demanded that the "decretazo be processed as a bill in order to give an opportunity to citizen, institutional and political participation in decision-making, through the proposals that parliamentary groups may present, on important aspects relegated". Among them, social cohesion, water resources, biodiversity and natural heritage, among other “nonsense” committed by the pact of the rights.
