The minority government of President Fernando Clavijo refuses to let the Canary Islands move forward. They have pressed the pause button on the Islands in 2015 and have settled into immobility.
Year after year, regardless of whether they co-governed with the PSOE or the PP, they have prepared budgets that have not reactivated the economy, so it would be difficult for them to resolve, as has not happened, the drama of poverty and social exclusion that exists in the Canary Islands.
Since 2015, the government presided over by Clavijo has never bet on the development of renewable energies, on research and development, on investment in education, or on the primary sector.
However, it cannot be denied that they have been very good at showing the Budgets, imitating vulgar sellers of magical hair growth products, as the best in the recent history of the Canary Islands, as those who have thought the most about the Canarian people.
False. The reality that the so-called nationalists want to hide with their propaganda is that in that land they claim to defend, unemployment is only growing and the Canarian population at risk of poverty is already at 40 percent.
The most palpable example of their electoral lies is chiseled in their assertion that with the Budgets for 2019 we were closer to achieving the objective of investing 5 percent of GDP in Education.
One more fallacy, since the 53 million euros that the item for educational policies increases compared to the previous year represents a growth of, exactly, 0.03 points. This puts us at 3.6 percent of GDP, far from the necessary path to reach the 5 percent target.
At that rate of growth, it would take us exactly 49 years to reach 5 percent, while the Canary Islands Education Law establishes that we should reach it in 3 years.
It is nothing new that nationalists deceive. Nor that they repeatedly violate the Canary Islands' own laws.
But the Canarian people no longer let themselves be fooled. No matter how much falsely progressive discourse and defense of the Islands they try to disguise their neoliberal ideology with.
The model that CC defends is to leave the Canary Islands as they are, with more than 20 percent unemployment, more than 40 percent poverty, the worst public services in the State and refusing to redistribute some of the wealth that tourism generates in the Canary Islands to solve the serious problems that our land has.
They have been sitting on the blue benches for three decades and surviving thanks to their clientelist and insular policies. That is why they do not change, because they are doing well even though the citizens are installed in a perpetual social and economic precariousness.
The Government sells expansive and historical Budgets when, in reality, they are a lost opportunity. While the world advances, President Clavijo's cabinet has been paralyzed, causing the gaps that break this land so much and that take the Islands away from Europe and the rest of Spain to widen.
And in this context, they sell a new pre-electoral fallacy: the general reduction of the that most people will not even notice.
However, it will affect the coffers of the Autonomous Community, which will stop receiving 150 million, which, as we are, is at least an irresponsible decision.
Once again, their electoral advertising is expensive for everyone.
It is irresponsible to talk about tax cuts when we already have the lowest taxation in the entire State and, nevertheless, we have some of the worst public services in the entire country.
As is also increasing the items for Health less than the entire Budget as a whole rises. Only 2.6% more for Health, when the Accounts grow by 6.6 percent.
Thus, not only are the serious problems that our public health system has not resolved, but the policy of supporting referrals to private business is affected.
Prioritizing this policy is a scam to taxpayers, as Clavijo continues to subject public resources to market prices and interests, something that is incompatible with the concept of public and universal health.
It is the triumph of the businessmen who have grown by trading with waiting lists and illegal agreements, of those who place their straw men and women at the head of the Ministry, guaranteeing that Coalición Canaria is a representation agency and its health business platform.
The president and his Minister of Finance no longer deceive anyone. They form a neoliberal tandem that prefers to benefit the one who has the most more and the one who has the least less.
A team that sells linear and non-redistributive tax cuts, such as the aforementioned IGIC or the electricity rate, which will mean a saving of one euro per month for a normal family, while large companies and hotels will receive a significant discount.
There are many more examples, such as the very small amount allocated to the Canarian Insertion Benefit (PCI) despite the fact that situations of poverty, marginalization and social exclusion should be the object of preferential attention by the Canarian public administrations.
Podemos Canarias has been unsuccessfully proposing for four years a social income that, unlike the current PCI, is characterized as a non-conditional subjective right and complementary to income from work and non-contributory pensions and without any other temporary limit than the disappearance of the circumstances of poverty and social exclusion.
I said in Parliament, when the Budgets for 2019 were presented, that they were sad Accounts.
I reiterate, because it is sad to see how one more year they have renounced the main tool they have to reverse the economic and social situation of the Canary Islands.
It is sad to see how they have not understood anything and that despite the fact that reality slaps them in the face with the figures, they continue to look the other way, applying the same formulas that have brought us to this desperate situation.
Neither you deserve the Canary Islands, nor do the Canary Islands deserve CC to govern them.
We hope that these will be the last Budgets that the nationalists have to prepare and that in May the polls will take them out of the blue armchairs.
So that CC stops and it is the Canary Islands that, finally, advance.
Noemí Santana, General Secretary and parliamentary spokesperson of Podemos Canarias