The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo (CC), announced this Monday that his executive would open a “legal proceedings against the state” for the “abandonment” to which he considers the government of Pedro Sánchez has subjected the islands in matters of immigration.
This was explained in an interview with Radio Canaria collected by Europa Press in which he assured that the Canary Islands “will make decisions” and “if there is no loyalty and commitment, the government of the Canary Islands will step into its shoes.”
“We will engage in a legal debate with the Spanish government on this matter. What cannot happen is that the emergency becomes normal.“, explained the president in an interview on the show ‘From Night to Day’.
According to the Canarian leader, his government “has done its homework” to take care of the minors who arrive on the islands, but the Spanish government “has left them alone.” The president of the Canary Islands convened the Regional Government Council this Monday to discuss possible legal scenarios related to the migration crisis, with the aim of establishing positions and making decisions.
Powers over men
Clavijo considers that the Canary Islands have responded as they should throughout this period, “taking care” of both the elderly, to whom they provide health care, and minors, whose guardianship they have assumed, but stressed that this was done before an emergency situation, which implies that its executive could wonder whether it is the autonomous community that should take charge of powers on the guardianship of migrants who have not reached the age of majority.
Thus, he calculates that the Canary Islands have spent more than 150 million euros on “a migration policy that is not the responsibility of the autonomous community.” “We still don’t see a cent“Even if money is not the solution,” he said, asking that the agreement be finalized “so that the minors can be located in the rest of the national territory” and the Canary Islands can regain some normality in the resources to care for the minors, which exceeds 200% of its capacity.
He also assured that this same weekend the central government exercised “pressure and threats” on certain NGOs who provide assistance to minors so that they continue to accommodate minors despite their saturation.
If there is no agreement, he said, “other measures will have to be taken.” “There are people who confuse loyalty, understanding and commitment to the general interest of the minor with weakness. And they are wrong,” he said.
