Miguel Tellado sent a letter to Angel Victor Torres in response to the minister’s call for a meeting to address the issue migration crisis with the presidents of the Canary Islands and Ceuta. In the letter to which this newspaper had access, the spokesperson for the People’s Party regrets “the neglect of almost two months” on the part of the government, since the parties agreed on the conditions for resumption of negotiations.
Last week, the Minister of Territorial Policy contacted, also in writing, Tellado to urge him to fulfilled his commitment sit down to negotiate the reform of article 35 of the immigration law. However, in the response letter, Tellado regrets that the government has let so much time pass without taking a single step, and that this “delay has
contributed to further aggravating an already untenable situation..
Torres committed last October 5 ask the European Union for the means it could provide to facilitate the exit from the “humanitarian emergency”as the presidents of the Canary Islands and Ceuta have already called the migration crisis, Fernando Clavijo And Juan Jesus Vivas. The two territories are experiencing the greatest pressure in their history linked to the arrival of people in an irregular situation.
In his letter to the minister, the popular leader acknowledges a third letter, this time from Torres to the European Commission.
However, Tellado finds in the conduct of the government nothing other than a trap. “We deeply regret to see that, despite the seriousness of the immigration situation in the Canary Islands and in the whole country, the fundamental commitments which linked the continuity of the negotiations since last October 5 have not been fulfilled by your government“, he said to the minister.
This is the essential condition that the Popular Party imposed on the government after learning that Moncloa had refused to request this aid. According to Tellado’s communication, there has been no progress for almost two monthswhile every day new boats arrive with hundreds of migrants to the Canary Islands, and dozens of irregulars jump by land or sea to Ceuta.
Background
Torres himself had publicly declared in Moncloa the day before that it was not “a logical solution” requested by the PP. “move” the “menas” in other EU countries “if the Autonomous Communities they govern refuse to welcome them”.
This declaration caused shock and anger in Genoa, after the agreement concluded before the summer on the distribution of minors, which even This cost him the breakup of several autonomous government coalitions with Vox.
It was therefore Tellado himself who announced that he was withdrawing from the negotiations until the government accepted the EU’s offer of aid. Finally, at the beginning of November, Torres seemed to give up and publicly announced that it would seek help from Brussels.
At the beginning of September, the CEO of Frontex, Hans Leijtensrevealed to the European Parliament that he had 3,000 “volunteer” agents be deployed to the Canary Islands, but that he could not act if “the Spanish government does not request it”.
The next month was his Ursula von der Leyen who, in writing, explained the same thing. The President of the Commission even offered her collaboration to activate the EU voluntary solidarity mechanism direct a large number of unaccompanied minors (called menas) to other Member States of the Union.
And as in the previous case, he was simply waiting for the Spanish government to make the request.
There will be a meeting
Tellado is now demanding that Moncloa take the plunge if it wants to have credibility on the other side of the table. negotiation which, in any case, he does not refuse to attend.
“We are referring specifically to two clear and concrete demands: the deployment of Frontex in the Canary Islands collaborate on border control and the activation of the European mechanism for the distribution of minors with other countries of the European Union,” he warns.
For the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP, Torres’ letter to Von der Leyen, “after almost two months of inaction, is a clear example of the apathy with which the government has handled this matter“.
And he wonders if it’s nothing other than “an attempt to dilute responsibilities and save time to the detriment of the most affected communities, notably the Canary Islands, which are experiencing unprecedented migratory pressure, without the necessary resources or support“.
