"On October 7, 2020, the Senate plenary approved a motion that, among other things, urged the Government of Spain to install the SIVE Radar in the northern area of Lanzarote within a maximum period of 6 months. This deadline has already been met and the radar is still not installed". This is what the Popular Party has denounced, which recalls that "so far in 2021, 3,436 people have arrived in the Canary Islands irregularly, when in the same period of 2020, 1,582 had arrived, which is 117.2% more."
"The situation is unsustainable and we cannot reach the levels that were reached at the end of 2020 with more than 23,000 arrivals and with data on deaths at sea of more than 2,000 people," say the popular ones.
For this reason, the senator of the Popular Parliamentary Group for Gran Canaria, Sergio Ramos, has registered this Thursday a motion in the upper house to urge the Government of Spain to ensure that, within a maximum period of one month, the radar in the northern area of Lanzarote is "installed and fully operational.". In addition, the senator asks to provide the Civil Guard and National Police with better tools to deal with the arrival of boats to the coasts of the Canary Islands and to strictly comply with the immigration law, international agreements and the protocols of the European Union.
Ramos considers it "regrettable that the Government does not carry out the mandate of the Senate, even with the vote in favor of the PSOE". “It is intolerable that what is approved among all political parties, the Government does not implement it and it is not the first time,” he denounces.
Finally, the senator for Gran Canaria warns that the Canary Islands "is being the epicenter of a migratory crisis from the African continent without precedent in the last decade and the massive arrival of thousands of people to the archipelago, in subhuman conditions and with a high risk of loss of life, has reached unbearable levels for any normal territory, especially in an insular, fragmented and ultraperipheral territory such as the Canary Islands and the Government must provide immediate solutions and not abandon the islands as they have done."
