Clavijo will ask for funding to tackle the migration crisis during his meeting with Sánchez

Today Thursday, the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, opens the agenda of meetings with the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, from whom he will ask for more funding to be able to face the migration crisis that the archipelago crosses, since it passed more than 157 million euros and has yet to receive any state funding in 2024.

During the meeting, the focus will be on the migration crisis which mainly affects the Canary Islands, at a time when negotiations for the reform of article 35 of the immigration law are underway. to neutral after the PP decided to cancel negotiations with the Central Executive, in which the Canarian Government also participates, to try to find a solution to this problem. Likewise, he will discuss with Sánchez the issues on the table such as regional financing, infrastructure, investments or the territorial debate.

Clavijo has already announced that he will take the immigration problem at the Conference of Presidents which will be held in Cantabria in December and which was initially convened to talk about housing. “Whether Pedro Sánchez likes it or not, he is going to leave, he cannot stop the regional presidents from speaking. “It’s a problem that concerns us all,” the Canarian president proclaimed a few days ago.

Likewise, the meeting will take place after the Constitutional Court agreed to deal with the appeal presented by the Sánchez government against the protocol for migrant minors approved by the Canarian Executive, while accepting hang italthough at that time it had already been provisionally suspended by order of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC).