The People’s Party will not sit at the table again of the immigration pact immediately. At least not this week, as the Government intended, when Minister Ángel Víctor Torres sent a letter to Úrsula Von der Leyen explaining the situation in Spain. A letter that, as Vozpópuli reported last Saturday, has caused deep discomfort in the Government of the Canary Islands, formed by the Coalition and the PP. They consider the content of the letter “outrageous”, since it does not take into account the gravity that the archipelago is experiencing.
The minister, who was previously president of the Government of the Canary Islands, reviews through four pages the actions carried out by the Executive with migration in Spain. Even proposes promoting migrant trafficking on a regular basis, when they come to occupy specific jobs, or treat the migration phenomenon with a gender perspective. Several initiatives among which do not include a distribution of the thousands of migrants, many of them minors, who are overcrowded in the Canary Islands and for whom European solidarity is key to their vital development on community soil.
Although Ángel Víctor Torres signed the letter on October 29, the day the catastrophe occurred in Valencia – he did not go there three days later – his team did not register it with the European Commission until two weeks later. on November 12. “A lost time,” they say in the Canary Islands, which “shows that it has only been a distraction maneuver to abdicate his obligations once again.” Government sources consulted by this newspaper acknowledged, this weekend, that with the letter Torres sought to put the PP back at the table.
The PP calls the letter “ridiculous and shameful”
The vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands and president of the PP in the islands, Manuel Dominguezcalled this Monday “ridiculous and shameful” the letter sent by Ángel Víctor Torres to von der Leyen. “He did it to laugh at everyone,” he said, after an official ceremony at the regional Presidency. Dominguez confessed his “frustration” and “anger” at the supposed lack of specificity in the measures that the archipelago needs. Despite this anger, and the Government’s use of the migration crisis, Domínguez will ask Génova to return to the negotiation track in the coming weeks. Although not right now.
According to Dominguez, In the four-page document, “a little less” the minister tells the president of the Commission that “there is no need” for her to look towards Spain because “everything is being done well” and no help is needed. “It does not talk about Frontex, it does not talk about help to resolve the surplus of political asylum, it does not talk about that money that is in Europe that is for the Canary Islands and that Spain has not requested it, it does not talk about the referral of unaccompanied minors to third countries, it does not talk about the possibility of being able to distribute in transit countries and in countries of origin,” he said.
Manuel Domínguez indicated that although the situation is not to his liking, the PP “will live up to what the Canary Islands and the Spaniards deserve” and “personally” he has promised that he will put “all the meat on the table” to “show” that the Canary Islands need help. Domínguez regretted being “right” when he testified that the “Government of Spain does not want an agreement.” The popular has insisted that the PP “will continue trying”.
The Canarian Government demands an agreement
The spokesperson for the Government of the Canary Islands, Alfonso Cabellohe assured this Monday to questions from They got up what “it is not a letter that pleases” the one sent by the Minister of Territorial Policy to the president of the European Commission, Úrsula Von der Leyen. Cabello recalled that in the regional administration of the islands “we are waiting to be summoned” to address the emergency situation. Cabello urged the rest of the regional governments to find a solution. He also recalled that after “15 months we are still discussing”, waiting for a reform of the Immigration Law, which could give the green light to the distribution of ores throughout the rest of Spain.
On the islands there are 41,000 irregular immigrants who have arrived by sea. Only in November, 846 were unaccompanied minors. The regional spokesperson noted that “we are optimistic, we cannot afford anything else in this atmosphere of tension.” The spokesperson for the regional government added that the Canary Islands will maintain the idea of ”decompressing”, thanks to a multilateral agreement with the central Executive and the autonomies.
At the moment, There is no date to meet before December 13when the Conference of Presidents will be held in Santander.
Clavijo sends an SOS
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijolamented this Monday that the Canary Islands alone bear the weight of migration from Africa. The president stated that The islands “represent a retaining wall for more than 5,400 minors and the cemetery for thousands of cut short lives”. Last week, 600 vessels were counted that have arrived this year to the islands, surpassing the data from last 2023 and “the sad thing is that we have normalized the records and made the emergency chronic, and that is when we talk about lives, people and human rights that are not fulfilled, it is unacceptable,” denounced the Canary Islands president. “Spain and Europe cannot continue without acting on their southern border because migration is not a problem, the lack of management is, they must assume a comprehensive coordinated action plan because there is no wall or fence that stops the hope of the person who “He has no options to live in his country,” he proclaimed.
In this sense, the president of the Canary Islands He claimed “that they cannot remain spectators, they must become actors like the people of the Canary Islands and each of those who participate in this seminar from their professional or institutional sphere.”. The director of Casa África, an entity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Las Palmas, José Segura, has pointed out this beginning of the last week of November 2024 “what worries me most about the migration phenomenon is geopolitics. What is happening in the Sahel area, it is dramatic. Young people flee from fundamentalist movements and their disoriented movements take them to the Atlantic, getting on a canoe and moving towards what they call Europe, precisely to achieve freedom.” The director of Casa África stressed that “those who arrive aboard cayucos are not our enemies, they are people in need of help, help and cooperation.”
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
