Let it be known that what Podemos Canarias would have liked is to censure the entire minority government and its top leader, President Fernando Clavijo, and not just the management of the Minister of Social Policies, Cristina Valido, for her disastrous management of the Dependency Law.
The data on dependency is overwhelming. On the one hand, the lack of attention, lack of resources, and suffering experienced by dependent people who, although entitled to assistance, are not receiving it. On the other hand, the difficulties and overexertion, exacerbated by the feeling of abandonment by the Administration, to which the caregiving families are subjected, who witness every day, in their own flesh, the systematic and continuous violation of the rights of their relatives and their own.
The Dependency Law has been applied late, poorly, and never in the Canary Islands. This is nothing new.
We will have to think carefully about the reasons that have brought us here, why we are at the bottom, why so many people die without receiving the help they are entitled to, and why so many families, especially women, are giving up a part of their lives, a job, without any economic or labor recognition, making titanic efforts to care alone, without any help, for people who need, and are entitled to, receive specialized care and attention.
Things do not happen by chance, it is not written in any book, nor is there any irremediable curse, that condemns the Canary Islands to have the worst social services.
It cannot be that being such a beautiful and rich land, with enviable nature and climates, we have some of the worst indicators in the State in terms of dependency care and are at the top in terms of poverty and social exclusion risk.
It is hard to believe, and even harder to accept. And that is why, because we do not resign ourselves, it is why the Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group has decided to censure Minister Valido, because she is the head of the Ministry at this time.
But the sad and worrying thing is that, after many years of Coalición Canaria governments, it is just adding insult to injury, and although Cristina Valido is probably not even the worst minister who has managed this area, as Inés Rojas had set the bar even lower, she has had to assume a responsibility that, in our opinion, should be shared with President Clavijo, ultimately responsible for the management of this Government.
It is many accumulated years of mismanagement that have brought us here. Many governments with Coalición Canaria that have not lived up to the needs, that have not known, have not been able, or have not wanted to make the necessary turn, focusing on the priorities so that in this land our people have the right to a dignified, fairer, more equitable, and egalitarian life.
It has been a lot, a lot, of money that has entered these Islands and has slipped into the pockets of a few people, with a terrible redistribution, generating scandalous figures of poverty and risk of social exclusion that in the Canary Islands, in no way, can we allow.
That is why the censure of Valido would not be fair if we did not denounce that the responsibility and mismanagement come from afar, and that it is not only the responsibility of one person.
Because the ultimate responsible, at this time, is the President of the Government, Mr. Clavijo, and perhaps it would have been accurate, on the part of all the groups, to have censured him.
It could not be, that is why in Parliament we have touched a bishop that is part of his team.
But in reality, if we want to improve, not only the attention to dependency, but all the public policies of the Canary Islands, what we have to do next May, once and for all, is to give a checkmate to the king!
By María del Río Sánchez, President of the Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group
