The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, the president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, and the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, agreed this Friday in establishing financing and housing as the main challenges they face as regional leaders . In a panel moderated by the director of the newspaper El Mundo, Joaquín Manso, within the framework of the La Toja Forum – Atlantic Link, which is being held this Thursday on the island of A Toxa, in the Pontevedra municipality of O Grove, the head of the The Galician government has been the first to “open fire” and talk about regional financing. Thus, Alfonso Rueda has defended that the “main challenge” he faces is “trying to avoid singular pacts” which, in his opinion, “the first thing they do is detract from what belongs to everyone.” Along these lines, he recalled that the net contributing communities would like to do the same, it would mean that Galicia would stop receiving just over 2,000 million euros per year.” Marga Prohens has expressed herself in the same way, sharing with Rueda that a financing system cannot be “agreed upon in obscure offices,” but rather it must be done “in a conference of presidents.” Furthermore, he pointed out that if one of the three contributing communities leaves the system (Balearic Islands, Madrid or Catalonia), “the only thing left is either for the contributors to contribute much more”, or for “the communities that receive from the system to receive much less.” , as well as that “the Government decides to raise taxes to pay for the fiscal independence of Catalonia.” “None of these three options are acceptable,” he concluded. For his part, the Canary Islands president, Fernando Clavijo, has lamented that “no one knows what Pedro Sánchez has agreed upon,” although “what is evident,” he added, “is that in the end one is going to come out better and the rest of us will be better off.” to be worse.” “If someone has more, the rest of us have less, and that can generate not only disaffection, but it can generate mistrust between territories that are not convenient,” he summarized. HOUSING AND TOURISM On the other hand, another of the topics that the Galician president has brought up for debate has been that of housing, recognizing that the possibility of starting a new life is “increasingly more complicated.” There, he said, “are public policies” and the “need for collaboration” with the central government. In this sense, he pointed out that it is “essential” to remove “demagogues” and has mentioned the measurement of stressed areas. “In Galicia there are 313 town councils and there are none that have asked us; it must be for a reason,” he explained, before pointing out that tourist housing is not “the problem.” “I think it is a mistake to say that tourism has the problem, or that it is to blame; I am not saying that it is not influencing, but if homes are removed from the rental stock it is because the owners do not trust in the legal security to rent in the traditional way and as solution B they are going to the VUT”, he stated. Regarding this issue, which the Balearic president has set as number 1, since, as Prohens has stated, on the islands “the issue is much more serious” as they have a “limited” territory and with demographic pressure “that increases.” For this reason, he has defended that to lower the price of housing “we must make housing available to the market” and “take advantage of what is already built”, recalling that the Balearic Government has approved a housing emergency decree with measures to try to solve this problem. In this context, Prohens explained that “the second great challenge” is “the management of tourist success.” “We are a territory with just over 1.2 million inhabitants and we are going to receive 20 million tourists by the end of the year,” he argued. For the Balearic president, “brave measures” must be taken, but “we must not rush” because, she added, “80%” of her economy is at stake. Now, he insisted, they are in the diagnosis phase to think about the proposals and has indicated that one of the measures to be taken will be the increase in the sustainable tourism tax in the summer months to, in this way, try to “better control tourist flows”. His Canarian counterpart has also joined this “challenge”, who has assured that in the Canary Islands they are also working to address this situation “scientifically”, to “take a series of measures”. IMMIGRATION However, Fernando Clavijo has focused a good part of his intervention on immigration, “a structural phenomenon that is going to increase.” In this sense, the Canarian president has claimed that it is not “a territorial or political problem, but rather a humanitarian drama.” He has also made reference to working on the modification of article 35 of the immigration law to “activate a solidarity distribution mechanism.” This, he has recognized, “entails economic commitments” and has asked the State, “which has the powers of migration and borders”, to “not look the other way”, especially in the face of the arrival of unaccompanied children. After this intervention, Marga Prohens explained that “more than 3,000 people” have arrived in the Balearic Islands so far this year and stated that “in the change in Spain’s international policy regarding Algeria” the community she leads has been ” harmed.” Thus, he said he did not understand “why Frontex is not being activated” and has asked for “more investment in radars to detect these vessels” and material resources, also in spaces that “the Government has in the communities.” “Do not demagogue the issue of immigration. This is not about solidarity, it is about capacity. A community like mine has had to say that we no longer have the capacity to care for unaccompanied minors from other regions in conditions of dignity. of Spain because we do not have the capacity to care for those unaccompanied minors who arrive directly at our ports,” he concluded.