The Canary Islands focus the national debate on the transfer of migrants

 

Neither the death of migrants who embark on the Canary Route, nor the collapse of the islands' assistance systems; What has made the main national political figures jump has been the referrals of migrants from the archipelago to different communities.

 

The reactions have been varied, from the “welcome” of the mayor of Mérida, offering shelter to the migrants arriving in the Canary Islands to the response of VOX in the same municipality, ensuring that the Extremaduran councilor was calling “to all the outcasts of the earth” and “giving carte blanche to the mafias”

 

However, the thing has not stopped there. Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the acting government of having “distributed the migrants who arrived in the Canary Islands throughout the Peninsula without prior notice to the communities” and linked these transfers to insecurity. Some statements from which the leader of the Popular Party in the Canary Islands and vice president of the Government, Manuel Domínguez, immediately distanced himself; stating that "the treatment that is being given to migrants who come to our land fleeing war and hunger is not what they deserve"

 

 

 

Furthermore, Domínguez invited his party colleagues to witness a disembarkation of the cayucos that arrive daily in the Canary Islands "so that they gain empathy" and condemned the statements of a popular councilor from the municipality of Torrox, in Malaga, who compared the migrants with “packages or merchandise” and accused them of arriving in Spain with diseases such as typhus.

 

For his part, the top leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has joined Ayuso's statements, ensuring that Pedro Sánchez's “lack of coordination and improvisation” has created tension in the towns where the migrants have been relocated and pointing out that "The least the Government should do is sit down with the autonomous communities and city councils to address this matter"

 

The president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has not been immune to this debate and in the assessment of his first 100 days at the head of the regional government he stated that "it is his turn to call and say 'hey, how many can I send you?' as if they were merchandise” in reference to the referrals of migrants, something that Clavijo himself stated “cannot be like that,” demanding once again a series of criteria and a single state command to address the migration crisis.

 

Pedro Sánchez, despite being one of the central figures in this matter, has barely entered the debate generated about the referrals of migrants and has limited himself to stating that the Socialist Party “will maintain its immigration policy in the face of right-wing xenophobia.” ”.

In this way, and still in full swing of arrivals with islands like El Hierro completely overwhelmed, the Canary Islands (along with the possible amnesty law for the Catalan leaders accused by 'El Procés') focuses the national political debate in a full round of contacts and negotiations facing a more than possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government of Spain.