This year's nationality debate has once again shown that the only opposition to Fernando Clavijo's Government is Podemos, as he himself acknowledged in the debate. He expressed many coincidences with all the other parties.
This minority Government, previously supported by the PSOE, now by the PP and always by Casimiro Curbelo, wants us to believe that it has just arrived in politics, when it has been directing the destinies of the Canary Islands for almost three decades.
Therefore, when we talk about one in two Canary Islanders being at risk of poverty and social exclusion, this Coalition Canaria Government will have some responsibility.
We clearly differ on this issue in that Podemos is committed to a guaranteed minimum income, which will allow the most disadvantaged families to achieve greater levels of dignity. Meanwhile, the Clavijo Government continues to bet on pitch and cement and on benefiting the great fortunes.
In three years of legislature, the Government has brought only one law to this House, precisely the land law, to turn the Canary Islands into an immense plot, for depredation and real estate business. On the contrary, Podemos has presented seven laws to benefit the social majority. Laws that the conservative majority of Parliament has rejected.
In the near future, three years late, as the Government did not consider it a priority before the Land Law, we will address the Canary Islands Social Services Law. While public authorities barely offer public places for dependency, this Law aims to deepen inequalities by leaving the management of dependency in private hands or in agreement with public money.
The conservative right (whether PP or CC) has been characterized by weakening the public sector and strengthening private health, education and dependency businesses, diverting huge amounts of public money into the pockets of a sector of the business community that lives on subsidies with zero-risk companies.
The opposite of what happens to the majority of our business fabric, made up of small and medium-sized companies that the Government hardly cares about.
On islands such as Tenerife, this practice is more than evident, as after three decades the health problems persist so that the hospitals in the south and north of the island work, because there is a private offer.
One of the highest exponents of political-business connivance, of obscene relations between public representatives that benefit the businesses of the most powerful business community, we are currently experiencing it in chapters in matters such as the regasification plant and the placement of 2,900 kilometers of pipes to continue in the Age of Fire, burning fossil fuels to produce heat or electricity with petrogas, as we like to call it.
The courts of Madrid and the Canary Islands are exposing the administrative messes of this Government, to try to benefit the electricity and gas companies, to benefit Redexis-Goldman Sachs and continue looting the pockets of the Canary Islands population, decapitalizing us.
From Podemos we continue to face this Government and we are committed to renewable energies, wind, photovoltaic, tidal, geothermal; but especially for a new energy model, in which the ownership of energy production is democratized. Why are the multinationals going to appropriate the sun, the sea, the wind or the volcanoes?
We intend to decentralize energy production, where each family can produce energy and largely self-supply. And we are going to continue to oppose regasification plants and gas.
In short, two opposing models, a Government that thinks about the benefit of a few, the environmental deterioration and the dismantling of the Welfare State, and in front, Podemos that is in the institutions defending the social majority, defending the territory as a precious asset and fighting in the streets and in the institutions for pensions, equality between women and men, public health, dependency and education services, which, in short, are our rights.
Manuel Marrero Morales, Deputy of the Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group
