Ten points for Fernando Clavijo | Opinion

The inertia of our policy is to get lost in the usual Spanish labyrinth because the most comfortable, and the most sterile, is to continue blowing against the same wall so as not to have to think differently and seek a better way out of shared problems. I think about it while listening to the constructive appearance before the media of Fernando Clavijo after attending the presidents conference. It seems from another world. Of a much more civilized, much less confronted. As Friday afternoon, King presided over in Gran Canaria an act prior to the celebration of the Day of the Armed Forces, institutional responsibilities forced Clavijo to quickly leave Barcelona. His companions gave him the initial turn and after a few minutes he was the first president who presented in the garden of the Palau de Pedralbes what was his assessment of what was discussed in a meeting whose federalizing function, as has happened so many times since its creation, has returned to mixed both for personal calculations and partisan interests. Clavijo said that the housing plan presented by President Sánchez seemed positive and, at the same time, he repeated what his proposals had been.

And it is not that I had reasons to believe that this time they would be discussed. In the previous conference, held in Santander on December 13 of last year, the proposal for agreement on the application of the principle of territorial solidarity in the management of the crisis of unaccompanied migrants could have already been discussed. The first virtue of that agreement, beyond its content, was that it did not start from a unique and particular interest, but that it raised a series of solutions – a strategic plan, a distribution model, cooperation with countries of origin … – elaborated at the same time by the Canarian government and by the Basque. That fruitful interherritorial logic, instead of winning support, was interrupted. Although both governments sent the document to the Minister of Territorial Administration to circulate among the other presidents at the conference, in the end it was only distributed when the meeting had already ended. One of the main humanitarian problems that exist in Spain, and that Tense the Canarian society overflowed with the situation could not be discussed rigorously, although the presidents know that the drama can only be resolved with a methodical solidarity among all. « Lost opportunity, » he said then.

On Friday Fernando Clavijo returned to the Conference of Hopeless Presidents, but with conviction. Not to make noise or sabotage strategies, but to try to make useful policy. Or that seemed his attitude and now more than ever, it is an attitude that scores. In the official press release that his government disseminated, it is read that in Barcelona he demanded that his colleagues comply with the distribution of kids as imposed a royal decree. He did it « looking them in the eye. » The first virtue of a conference of this nature It is that it forces its assistants to listen to the problems of others without intermediaries. And although the governments of the rest of the autonomous communities already know what the magnitude of the migratory challenge is, and therefore they look the other way, it is necessary for the proper functioning of the state of the autonomies that their Canarian counterpart has a formal place where to explain to all, again and at the same time, that the situation that their community lives is critical and is unsustainable. « Canary Islands feel alone and it is not positive that we feel alone in the state. » On this occasion the host, the President Illa, in addition to committing to the reception, supported the Basque and Canarian initiative. Addition. Ten points for Fernando Clavijo.