The senator for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Francisco Manuel Fajardo Palarea, attended this week the commemorative conference of the International Day of Parliamentarism in the City of León. The event was titled Strengthening democracy by strengthening parliaments and served as the starting point for the beginning of the Spanish presidency of the Council of Europe.
Francisco Manuel Fajardo Palarea took the opportunity to talk and share parliamentary experiences with the moderator of the event and president of the international Idea foundation, the Costa Rican of Canarian descent, Kevin Casas-Zamora.
Islands that are the southern border of Europe
He also conveyed to the vice president of the Polish Senate, Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka, his concern, as a Canarian and conejero, about the refusal of her country and Hungary to sign a European Pact for Migration and Asylum, "given the special circumstances that make our islands the southern border of Europe and, therefore, the recipient in the first line of the drama of migration."
In the words of Fajardo Palarea, in the different panels that have been developed, "it has been found that we are living in difficult times for parliamentarianism due to the wave of populism that is emerging in many countries and that defends ideas that undermine the very foundations of democracy, postulates before which one cannot be neutral or adopt whitewashing positions, but rather combat them."
The senator for Lanzarote and a Graciosa attended the event representing the Senate of Spain together with its president, Ander Gil, and the senator for Almería, Rafael Hernando, and had the opportunity to greet and speak with the King of Spain to share the wonderful benefits of the two islands he represents and of which the monarch is perfectly aware.
