The doors of the Congress plenary were closed last Thursday after a debate in which the same script as always was repeated. Our demands once again clashed against the insurmountable wall of those who once again shielded themselves in the supposed legitimacy of their arrogant absolute majority to blow up the alternative proposals of those who, once again, asked for a gesture of responsibility with the territories that, like the Canary Islands, continue to need the support and protection of the State Government to have the essential tools to weather the effects of the crisis.
The Government has gone from the psychosis of economic adjustments to the realization of its budgets according to its partisan interests. In fact, the accounts that were approved on Thursday, after more than two months in which there has been no dialogue from the Government, is the sum of many political decisions. Decisions in which it rewards the territories in which its party governs and punishes those in which it is in the opposition.
In the case of the Canary Islands, it fails to comply with our Economic and Fiscal Regime for another year, it subtracts 800 million euros more compared to the average, it condemns us to provide the same public services with less budget and, despite being the Community with the lowest deficit, it punishes us without employment plans, with a new adjustment in all infrastructure agreements, with more cuts in the subsidy for the transport of goods or the elimination of aid to the primary sector.
The same ones who use the scissors in Madrid are the same ones who then in the Canary Islands demand that we do what they take away from us. While they leave us without 628 million euros for our road agreement, which has meant the loss of 10,000 jobs in four years, the Ministry of Development rewards Huesca or Coruña with new investments in roads. Is there money or not? What there is not is political will.
The same Ministry that continues forward with a crazy race forward to add more and more kilometers for the AVE, subtracts budget for roads that are unavoidable, such as La Aldea, in Gran Canaria; the island ring of Tenerife, the North-South Axis of Fuerteventura or the Arrecife ring road.
The same happens with the Ministry of Industry. The same Ministry that, three years ago, told us that our tourist infrastructure plan was unfeasible for economic reasons, once again includes, on this occasion in the Senate, an item of half a million euros for the Tourist Adaptation Plan of the Western Costa del Sol. And it is the second year that it does so.
The same Ministry that tries to convince us that it cannot finance the projects on the Canary Islands coast, and that incessantly repeats that there is no economic availability, accepts that the PP parliamentarians of Almería sneak three million for its coast.
The same Ministry that lets the Charco de los Clicos die, in Lanzarote, one of the most impressive symbols of the island, for a miserable 500,000 euros, includes three million for the regeneration of the Bay of Portmán, in Murcia.
The same Ministry that has been saying for years that the Canary Islands does not comply with its part in the financing of employment plans, is forced to include an amendment of 10 million euros to comply with the part that they did not pay in 2013. An amendment that has shown that the words that the Minister of Employment and her colleagues in the Canary Islands have repeated so many times were untrue.
Once I asked, almost begged, the President of the Government to give us tools so that the territory most affected by the crisis, the one that needs the most support from the State, could fight against the recession, create employment and build a more competitive economy. He has not given us a single one. And now it will be the senators and deputies of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands, the same ones who won their seats with endless promises, who will have to face the music and explain to the Canarians their foolish non-compliance.
That the PP of the Canary Islands has not obtained the same results as the representatives of Galicia or the Balearic Islands is due to its symbolic influence in Genoa and, above all, to its lack of motivation to channel before the different Ministries the demands that they themselves promised in 2011 and that, paradoxically, they have been unable to transfer from the electoral program to the State Budgets. Economic adjustments or political decisions?
Ana Oramas, deputy of the Canarian Coalition
