In order for Lanzarote and the Canary Islands to have a possible future, we must start by building strong and secure foundations, and this will only be possible if we achieve the involvement of our young people; that they see themselves as part of that tomorrow that is just around the corner, as part of a project that aims to protect the interests of our land.
Active, dynamic, prepared and hardworking young people. This is the Canarian youth. Young people for whom it is necessary and urgent to implement a Youth Guarantee Plan, which puts within their reach job and training opportunities, favoring their incorporation into the labor market.
A Plan with capital letters, whose development and application must be promoted both in all Canarian public administrations and in the private sector.
The Youth Guarantee is a European initiative that at the state level is part of the Young Entrepreneurship Program and although in principle everything sounds very nice, when it comes to reality there are endless problems to access it.
Young people are part of one of the groups most affected by the gradual reduction of funds allocated to provide active employment policies, which we have been suffering over the past four years.
And the worst of all is that it has been the youth of our Autonomous Community, who have received the hardest blow, an especially significant impact as a consequence, especially from 2014, of the Comprehensive Employment Plan of the Canary Islands (PIEC).
It's about time to say enough!, it's about time to have a government that stops treating us like second-class citizens.
How is it possible that the Canarian Employment Service is the public employment service that best manages its resources (certified by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security), and that, however, the Canary Islands, with 26%, has the third highest unemployment rate at the state level?
Since the economic crisis began, different measures have been tried to alleviate the situation of youth unemployment. All of them unsuccessful. It is not only about applying short-term measures, but about real structural changes that must imply transversal policies between institutions, social entities, companies and workplaces.
It is clear that there are many things that are not being done well. That is why from Coalición Canaria-Partido Nacionalista Canario we must and will demand that the appropriate legal and budgetary modifications be promoted in order to recover, among other things, the Comprehensive Employment Plan for the Canary Islands.
Samuel C. Martín Morera, candidate for CC-PNC Lanzarote to the Congress of Deputies
