Today, December 28, what would seem like a real joke, in addition to bad taste, turns out to be a reality. Coalición Canaria, a party that calls itself nationalist, has voted in the Senate together with the PP and the parties of the most rancid right, against the deficit path approved in Congress by the most progressive parties.
It is inconceivable that the party that governs in the Canary Islands, the community that has the worst figures in terms of social exclusion and poverty, with the sad honor of leading the ranking of child poverty, rejects in the Senate the possibility of alleviating a little the pressure to which the austerity and cuts policies that we have suffered in recent years, with a spending ceiling that suffocates both the autonomous communities and the city councils.
It is incomprehensible that they vote in favor of maintaining the same caps that we know cut lives, undermine rights and condemn a large part of our population to poverty and lives of misery. We cannot understand how they dare to look in the face of all those families who are still waiting for the right to dependency to be recognized, a subjective right, and therefore mandatory, which is systematically being violated by the Government of the Canary Islands. Finally, this year it could have more resources that will allow to speed up the process, especially when Brussels has already accepted that the path of stability goes from 1.3% of GDP to 1.8%.
We are talking about something very serious, that Coalición Canaria has voted against the State having about 6,000 million euros more, which would remain in the autonomous communities and would be used to improve our meager social policies, dependency, health, education, or a social income to alleviate a little the lives of the Canarian families who are having the worst time. It's a real shame.
We do not understand the hypocrisy of those who one day raise their voices to the sky about the issue of the Canary Islands-State Agreements -which, by the way, and let no one be fooled, from our group we will demand where and when appropriate up to the last euro that corresponds to us- and the next day vote against being able to reinvest a small part of the money from our surplus in social policies. Very strong, what does Coalición Canaria care about poverty?
By María del Río, deputy and secretary of Feminisms, Equality and LGTBI of Podemos Canarias.
