The vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands, the PP leader Manuel Domínguez, has said this Tuesday that the central Executive "is killing the Canary Islands" with the "absolute neglect" in the face of the current migration crisis, and he has emphasized that President Pedro Sánchez would have been more "forceful" if this situation were occurring in Catalonia.
During the Parliament Plenary and responding to a question raised by the Socialist Group, Domínguez described as "submissive" the president, Nira Fierro, by considering that "the only thing" she does is "agreeing that people die at sea, that a woman be raped on a patera, that a mother arrives with her dead child or that they find the body of a 17-year-old young man under the rubbish at the bottom of a cayuco".
The vice president reproached the socialists that "they have thrown in the towel" and that they limit themselves to repeating the same strategy that, as he recalled, they already followed in the case of the "Aquarius", that is, "to wait for everyone on the shore". "I refuse for this to continue like this, to resign ourselves," he stressed.
Domínguez has maintained that the central Government "should have requested Frontex from the EU and it hasn't" and that, in addition, it has to "stop investing" in third countries "if they do not comply with the returns".
In his intervention, he questioned Fierro, asking her "with what face" she talks about El Hierro "with what they are suffering", referring to the closure of businesses and to the fact that residents "walk on the mud of the breakwater's slope," and he argued that she must "demand" from Sánchez that he grant to the Canary Islands the same treatment as with the rest of the autonomous communities.
For her part, Nira Fierro has replied that the PP "betrays the interests of the Canary Islands" because "it doesn't stop demanding" from the central Government while "it votes against" the modification of the immigration law that makes it possible to transfer migrant minors to the Peninsula.
The president criticized that the popular party "puts sticks in the wheels," recalling that the party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has said, for example, that he is not going to "transfer the problem" to the Peninsula, "turning the Canary Islands into a prison and that El Hierro has it worse". "You haven't said a word, Feijoo says it and you swallow it," she reproached.
Fierro has defended that the meeting of the interministerial commission "has gone well", although, in his judgment, Domínguez finds it indifferent because "it is not in the solutions" and "he only cares" that from Vox "they eat the sandwich with him", which, as he has said, leads him to utter "barbarities".
Along these lines, he has pointed out that in the lists for the Senate the vice president "swallows" the fact that Feijóo has placed a candidate from León within the state pact with Vox. "They treat us like a colony", he has ruled.