Both senators seek the support of the rest of the groups for insularity to acquire the rank of CommissionThe PSOE aims to relegate this matter to a Lecture with an expiration date and without the entity necessary to address a matter that is not dispatched in several months an autonomous senator, Fernando Clavijo, today registered, together with the Balearic Senator Vicenvida Vidal Matas (Mes Per Mallorca), a letter in the chamber, backed by the Confederal Left Parliamentary Group and the Senate Nationalist Group to amend the rules of the Upper House and allow the creation of a Non-Legislative Commission on Insularity.This proposal responds to the PSOE's refusal to incorporate matters related to insularity into the Commission on Demographic Challenge and to relegate matters related to a Lecture with an expiration date and without the entity necessary to address an issue that is not dispatched in several months.

Therefore, both senators have initiated a round of contacts with the other parliamentary groups in order to obtain a sufficient majority in the next plenary session and thus achieve the creation of this "necessary" commission in the Senate.Fernando Clavijo, defends in his the need for this commission to be created in order to "address the inherent problems that live in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands". While recalling that "the disadvantages of insularity must be corrected through the action of the different legislative and executive powers" and adds that "these measures should never be construed as privileges but as actions of justice and redress of situations that the common economic and administrative framework with other continental territories has become anomalous." The letter recalls that insularity – and multi-island- has important consequences, both direct and indirect, on the cost of living and the costs borne by companies and the public administration in their task of providing goods and services Public. Insularity, moreover, "is persistent and immutable, and therefore gives rise to distinct features of these territories from others" such as limited resources, population characteristics, remoteness, vulnerability to disasters external economic crises, over-reliance on international trade or increased fragility of the environment." In addition, the most prominent direct consequences of the island territories are the higher shortage of life, higher costs of production and investment in equipment goods or the high dependence on port and airport infrastructure, among others. In addition, these facts are the underfinancing of the island territories which, in the specific case of the Canary Islands "do not cover the average expenditure per inhabitant in public services". Clavijo further points out that it is necessary for the State to recognize the enormous economic contribution made by the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, which add up to 22% of Spain's total tourist GDP and address its derived problems such as massification, the impact of tourism activity on the environment and the territory, the need to regulate tourism renting, the demand for legislative changes to recognize occupational diseases from different groups in the tourism sector, the claim to the state of the adaptation of the law to anticipate the retirement age for professionals with large physical burdens in the work of hospitality, the problems in relation to housing, the urgency to diversify the economy and move towards a tourist model quality, the claim of airport co-management and opposition to oil exploration or its special vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Hence the need to create a Specific Commission that can deal with these issues with the rank and schedule of meetings that a Commission allows to advance real solutions and proposals for both archipelagos.—