The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, asked the central government to “don’t forget” of the migration crisis that the islands have been suffering for more than a year, because even if the country is in “shock” after the damage in Valencia, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia, in the islands “we continue with the emergency” .
He assured that “it is not possible” that this “happens background“Because the Canary Islands “do not deserve it”, nor do “the people who seek hope, a better future, nor of course the Canarian people who bear all this pressure alone”, he said. he indicated.
Clavijo stressed that “people continue to arrive” on the coasts of the archipelago “and the Canarian people give an example of solidarity, exemplarity and of course civility” and he understands that the Spanish government “is big enough “, with ministries, civil servants and services “to be able to deal with the two emergencies”.
The president was aware that the damage was considerable. “a huge misfortune” But he stressed that the Canary Islands are experiencing their own “misfortune”, with more than a hundred deaths and missing people on the migratory route in recent weeks.
Regarding the political responsibilities in the management of the Dana, he commented that his government will not enter into this analysis because the emergency that “still continues and there are municipalities without water, without electricity and they are still looking for the missing” . people.”
Thus, he declared that now what we must do is “work and be all together”, and in this sense he showed himself “proud” of the detachment that his government sent to participate in the work of reconstruction and bring their “grain of sand”.
“Unfortunately, we will have a lot of time to be able to make assessments of this nature, but in emergency situations you have to close ranks, in emergency situations you cannot rethink the procedure, and that is perhaps what we have really always practiced in the Canary Islands”, he emphasized.
Clavijo also defended the “Canarian way” of doing politics in emergency management based on “unity, transparency and, above all, citizen thinking”.
