During the meeting, the president and the minister agreed on the need to intercede so that young people from the Canary Islands are treated equally throughout the territory within the ‘Verano Joven’ program.
The president of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura, Lola Garcia, has taken advantage of the meeting held with the Minister of Territorial Policy and Historical Memory, Angel Victor Torres, to transfer priority issues in Fuerteventura that are of state competence.
In this sense, Lola García expressed the disagreement of the insular Corporation with the program ‘Verano Joven’, a program of the Ministry of Transport and Mobility that subsidizes the mobility in trains and medium and long distance buses so that young people can travel around Europe, practically for free. A program that, unfortunately, is a discriminatory treatment towards the Canary Islands youth “since the Archipelago does not have this type of means of transport”, as Lola García moved today to the Minister of Territorial Policy and Historical Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres.
For this reason, García asked Torres for his support in this matter: “I am sure that the minister will act with sensitivity towards his autonomous community and will intercede with the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility so that our young people can benefit from this program with equal conditions”. “That the programs aimed at youth are adapted to the territorial reality of the Archipelago so that, once again, we are not treated in a discriminatory way”. For his part, Ángel Víctor Torres, agreed with Lola García on this issue, and guaranteed his willingness and commitment to intercede with the corresponding Ministry.
Garcia also took the opportunity to move to the minister other issues of concern to citizens, such as the need to increase security forces on the island. Garcia explained that “we have not received solutions from the competent authorities of the State, in a situation that worries us, especially considering the population increase that has experienced Fuerteventura in recent years”.
The president, Lola Garcia, addressed in January 2025 a letter requesting the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, and the Minister of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to visit the island to address this issue with local institutions and groups. Request that the Ministry referred to the Directorate General of the Civil Guard to organize a meeting “of which so far we have no news, so we asked again in writing last May to reiterate this request”.
