Today, a meager parliamentary majority has compromised the future of this land and its people. Clavijo has imposed the sum of 33 votes on the democratic demand to articulate a reinforced consensus when deciding on our territory.
The Pyrrhic parliamentary victory that has allowed the Canarian Coalition, Popular Party and Gomera Socialist Group to approve the Land Law, actually masks a profound defeat of Fernando Clavijo, who will go down in the history of the Canary Islands as the only president capable of forcing the approval of a transcendental law while having almost half of the Parliament of the Canary Islands against it.
But today they have not only approved a bad Law, lacking consensus and with broad social rejection, today they have also started the counter and I venture to predict that this Land Law will be remembered as the shortest in the Canary Islands.
Beyond the appeals that may be filed with the Constitutional Court, this Law will end up being repealed by the same Parliament that has approved it today, when that Parliament reflects the new social majority that is emerging in the Canary Islands.
Clavijo has been unable to consider that the current composition of Parliament responds to a snapshot that reflects a specific moment and that measures like this will contribute to intensifying the need for change.
Clavijo has chosen. He has preferred the applause of the lords of the land, he has preferred the congratulations of the employers, he has preferred the embrace of the Popular Party and the interested complicity, and with a price, of the Gomera Socialist Group. At the same time, he has despised the clamor of the street, the recommendations of the experts and a broad parliamentary consensus.
That is why I am convinced that this Law will fall sooner rather than later. Because it does not respond to the real needs of the Canary Islands and its people, because it mortgages our future, because it squanders our most valuable resource.
But I must sincerely recognize that, despite the fact that I am terrified by the irreversible consequences that may arise during the short term of this law, there is something that worries me even more: the feeling that Clavijo has completely renounced to articulate the Canary Islands as demonstrated by the devilish cocktail that involves renouncing control of the territory and grossly blowing up the previous consensus that territorial legislation has always and until his arrival brought together.
But he, messianic, seems to take refuge in the fact that history will judge him.
María Dolores Corujo Berriel, Member of Parliament for Lanzarote
