The vote of the parliamentary groups during the plenary session of the European Union last Tuesday in Strasbourg, resulted in a negative response to the request from the EU Council to expedite the entry into force of the fisheries agreement of Europe's 25 with Morocco, which was signed in August 2005 and should have been in effect since March 1 of this year.
The parliamentarians of the European People's Party, including the Spanish ones, voted no to this request, a fact that has angered the PSC in Lanzarote, considering the negative vote as an act "with the sole intention of harming the socialist government's efforts".
The PSC deputy for Lanzarote, Manuela Armas, and the deputy in Congress for the province of Las Palmas, Olivia Cedrés, have demanded that the PP of the Canary Islands "explain to the fishermen's associations the arguments used in Strasbourg to harm a primary sector in full crisis.
The Canarian fishermen collective is one of the most interested in the entire European Union in the agreement coming into force as soon as possible, in order to resume fishing in the Canarian-Saharan fishing grounds that they have not set foot in since 1999, the year in which the existing agreement was interrupted.
