New Generations of Lanzarote and La Graciosa have denounced that the Government of Spain has left "again and for the second consecutive year the young people of the islands without the Youth Summer program”, which subsidizes transportation only by train and "which, obviously, does not benefit the Canarians."
The general secretary of NNGG of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Pedro Cabrera, assures that this episode “is another example of the systematic abandonment in youth matters by the PSOE”. “When they released the first edition last year, it was NNGG in the Canary Islands who denounced that it completely excluded the young people of the islands, something that has happened again in this second edition”, the secretary asserts.
In this sense, they recall that last June it was the youth formation, at a regional level and with President Miriam Vega at the head, "who warned that the Canary Islands was once again excluded from this program".
“One more year, for the Government of Spain the singularities of the Canary Islands do not exist, because it is great that the use of InterRail is subsidized in the peninsula, but what do we do in the Canary Islands?”, added Cabrera.
"The reality is that both the conejeros and the gracioseros must continue to pay the established amounts to be able to travel, some of them being completely exorbitant in the middle of summer, while the young people of the peninsula will be able to get on a train at an affordable price", indicated in the statement the New Generations of the Popular Party.
“It is not possible that, while they fill their mouths with verbiage in defense of the archipelago, they leave us out of this program for the second consecutive year”, added Cabrera, who also recalled that Lanzarote has a socialist deputy in the Congress of Deputies “who has not been heard a word about this issue.”
From NNGG of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, hand in hand with the rest of the islands and the regional leadership, they assured that "they will continue to demand everything that is beneficial for young people and, even more so, equal opportunities in the face of this type of national initiatives".
