The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has been energetic and very critical of the management of the Spanish government, which he accuses of “look the other way” and “delay”.
He assured the Parliament of the Canary Islands that there was a “lack of political will” to respond to the migration crisis, and thus resolve the situation, recalling what happened in El Hierro last weekend when he denounced “pressures” to an NGO because there was no capacity to accommodate more migrant minors.
He said that the Canarian people and migrant miners “deserve the respect of at least trying” and so far “no one” has explained why all the parties have not “sat down” to negotiate, including the PP, the majority party in the Congress and head of the autonomous communities, and Junts, which is a “government partner” of the PSOE.
The President of the Canary Islands has asked the Executive to “sit down” with PP and Junts to finalize the reform of the immigration law, while stressing that “no one” has explained why there have been no meetings. For Clavijo, the socialists are “blurring the issue” and taking the migratory “drama” of the islands literally, especially since there is a “management problem” that leaves the Canary Islands “alone”.
He recalled that when the Canary Islands government came to power, it protected 2,100 unaccompanied migrant minors and that currently there are about 6,000This is why they have been demanding resources for several months, in the face of an expected avalanche of pirogues heading towards the coasts of the archipelago.
In this sense, he made it clear that the Canary Islands are not “worth” the 35 million euros for reception approved this week and demanded 150 million, especially because the EU has funds for these cases.
Clavijo denounced the Canary Islands “suffering only migratory pressure from Africa”, and it is necessary to find “meeting spaces”. In this sense, he recalled that this Monday, during the meeting, an agreement was reached on the Canary Islands Pact for Migration aimed at protecting the rights of minors and the work of public workers, NGOs and ask for more resources to ensure assistance to minors and the integrity of professionals. At this meeting, it was agreed to instruct the legal services to analyze the administrative, constitutional and criminal aspects.
He insisted that the Canarian government “will not be complicit” in this situation, in which an extraordinary situation in which protocols are not respected has been normalized. “The Canarian people and these children deserve respect for having tried.”
Where is the European Commission?
The spokesman for the Agrupación Herreña Independiente, Raúl Acosta, asked “where is the European Commission” in the face of the migration crisis in the Canary Islands, when it appeared in Lampedusa and why the Spanish government has not requested the activation of Frontex.
“We talk a lot, we say little and the worst thing is that we do much less”summarized as an analysis of the criminal situation.
