ARRECIFE (LANZAROTE), 17 (EUROPA PRESS)
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Canary Government, Fernando Clavijo, will meet this Monday at the Cabildo of Lanzarote, taking advantage of the central Executive leader’s summer stay on the island. The meeting is expected to address migration, the Canary agenda, and budgetary matters.
The meeting will begin at 16:30 and the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, will also attend.
Clavijo has specified that they will discuss the migration issue, the Canary agenda, budgetary topics, and Government actions, while hoping that the commitments reached will be “executed and fulfilled” by the various Ministries.
Specifically, the regional president has complained that the commitments made in the last meeting, held in La Palma, “have not been fulfilled”: “I can understand the political situation, but I do expect that from this meeting and those agreements, concrete actions will emerge that can materialise in the coming months.”
Questioned this week about the expectations for the meeting, the Canary president has acknowledged that this legislature is “being difficult”, but has argued that if there is “will and desire”, progress can always be achieved. In this regard, he anticipates this will be an “interesting and intense” meeting, allowing for the addressing of “important” issues on the Canary agenda, including free transport in the islands and the reconstruction of La Palma after the volcano, as he recalled, “is still not fully reconstructed.”
“Canarias needs the presence of the State. There is an important issue, which is the Common Agricultural Policy: This new budgetary scenario in which the European Union intends to cut would, in effect, mean the end of our primary sector… And we are already seeing in the Peninsula the consequences of not working the land (referring to the wildfires) and, of course, the importance that the primary sector has in preserving our biodiversity,” stated the regional president on 15 August in front of the media, at an event to commemorate the feast of the Virgin of Candelaria, on the island of Tenerife.
