The spokesperson of People’s Party In Congress, Miguel Tellado, announced this Saturday through a statement the suspension of talks on migration and the distribution and reception of migrant boys and girls arriving in the Canary Islands.
Tellado, who was going to meet next Monday with the Minister of Territorial Policy, the socialist Angel Victor Torres states that, “once the response from the European Commission is known, confirming that Spain has given up asking for help from the EU, as requested by the PP, they suspend the negotiations until the Government reconsiders and seeks support.” community.”
From this newspaper we have had access to the letter that Ursula von der Leyen sent dated September 25 to Dolors Monserrat, vice-president spokesperson for the Group of the European People’s Party. In the letter, the president of the European Commission, appreciates the concern that the popular people show about the migration drama that is being experienced in the Canary Islands and where she states all the things that the Commission is already doing in immigration matters. The conclusion of this response is a pro forma paragraph stating that “the Commission is ready to continue assisting Spain and the Canary Islands in their efforts to manage this difficult situation.” At no time is it mentioned that Spain has rejected said aid.
Government sources tell this editorial team that it is this formal response that the popular people cling to to attack immigration management and use it “as an excuse to overthrow the ongoing negotiation and they add that” the Government of Spain and the Commission are doing things as they should, following the established instruments, procedures and protocols. “The PP invents a non-existent conflict to polarize around this issue and break up a negotiation that could provide real and immediate solutions to the Canary Islands.”
The national Executive has also categorically denied that the Government of Spain has rejected EU aid, “aid that is regulated” and it draws their attention that “the PP unilaterally broke off the negotiations due to false information.”
For his part, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, has demanded that the PP stop making “implausible” excuses to refuse to reach an agreement with the Government on immigration matters, assume its responsibility and demonstrate humanity. “Let them be aware,” he said, “that we must treat people who have nothing with dignity, many of them children who do not even have their parents nearby.”
The Popular Party has asked the Government to forward the documentation and communications maintained between Spain and the European Commission and regret that the conversations have leaked to the media after the Government “broke its word to filter the content of the meetings.” last week.” The president of the Executive of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, is informed of all this, they claim.
A “muddy” debate
For her part, from the PSOE in the Canary Islands, the Secretary of Organization Nira Fierro has asked the PP “to stop muddying politics and possible agreements on immigration matters with hoaxes” and has denied that the Government of Spain rejects help from Europe to the islands to manage the humanitarian drama that is being experienced on them.
Fierro has categorically denied in a statement the accusations of the popular party, in his opinion, “only justifiable by those who, in reality, intend to derail any possibility of an agreement.”
The socialists have thus alluded to the demonstrations made this Friday by the general coordinator of the PP in the Canary Islands, Jacob Qadri, accusing the general secretary and minister, Ángel Víctor Torres, of trying to boycott the Canary Islands in the management of the migration phenomenon. “They do not conform to the truth and demonstrate a genuine lack of institutional loyalty and political responsibility,” he asserted.
Fierro has assured that “it is a hoax that the Government of Spain, President Pedro Sánchez or Ángel VÍctor Torres reject European aid to the Canary Islands. This accusation is not true and it also has all the appearance of being a deliberate attack, only justifiable by someone who actually intends to derail any possibility of an agreement.”
The socialist leader has stressed that her party in the islands “has given ample evidence that it is in favor of understanding on this matter and has always moved with that priority. In the Parliament of the Canary Islands, in the Cortes Generales and before the European Union: always.”
“We demand that the popular people return to sanity and good sense. They are the governing party in the Canary Islands and with this behavior, based on unfair accusations and completely unrelated to reality, they do not seem to be up to the task of such responsibility.”
Despite everything, Fierro has asserted that “the Canary Islands deserve the solidarity of the rest of the communities in welcoming migrant minors who arrive on their shores and the PP must get involved in the solution, which involves making possible the reform of the Immigration Law , and once and for all put aside the hoaxes and their partisan interests.”
On behalf of the Canary Coalition, the vice president and regional leader of the PP, Manuel Domínguez, has accused the Government of Spain of “bursting up” the dialogue with his party to reform the immigration law and has described as “vomitive” its interest in “confronting to the autonomous communities” and “break the government pact” on the islands.
The political problem
While the anti-immigration discourse increases in tone and cala in a part of the populationthe majority of Spaniards are in favor of welcoming unaccompanied migrant minors and distributing and sheltering them in the different autonomous communities. Simple Lógica’s September barometer, prepared for elDiario.es, shows that 7 out of 10 Spaniards support the distribution of foreign children and adolescents between the different territories of Spain, at a time when the central and Canarian governments have been engaged in negotiations with the Popular Party after the blocking of the processing of the reform of the Immigration Law last July.
Source: www.eldiario.es
