He admitted that the community feel the lack of safety like “an important problem”.
The Emigration Secretary, Antonio Rodríguez Miranda, emphasised the strength that gives the union between Galician people in Mexico and Brazil and, according to one of the Galician Government main objectives, said that, shortly, will be known new centre fusions, but not in these two countries, because “we have already progressed enough”.
Back in Galicia after his journey around Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela recently, in statements to Europa Press, Miranda emphasised the importance of the centres to unite and to be “stronger”, and indicated new steps, but not where. In his day, the Xunta— the Galician Government—expressed its confidence in achieving results in the entities, for example, in Catalonia or Cuba.
Convinced of the benefits of a few organizations combining efforts with partners from advanced age and difficulties to keep the social service, he announced that centre of Brazil and Mexico are examples of process centres’ union that determine a strong entity with an important social relevance.
The case of Mexico, he exemplified the ability of the Galician Centre to convene a mass celebration of First May Day: Brazil had an “over time” process and it supported the “specialization”, although Miranda said that there were “small chances of action.”
Questioned about the opposition’s criticisms, which he considers that the Xunta supports the centres in detriment of the attention to the Galician diaspora in the Law of Galeguidade (Galician trend) which process the autonomic Chamber, replied that the standpoint of the law its happened, exactly, “that it regulates the Galeguidade“, represented in this entities, while the public law are “perfectly recollected” in other legislation.
“Another different discussion may be if we can do or not a citizenship law, but this law is thought to the Galeguidade“, he insisted, in order to add that, although the development of this rule falls on his ancestor in the post, Santiago Camba, he “agrees to the fullest in his contents” and he insisted that he wanted it was passed by the “consensus”.
RETURN AND DEPARTURE
He also assured that he “agrees” with the Popular Party (conservative party) in the proposal of amending this regulation with suggestions relating to the return, because “there’s no state regulation regarding that” and it seems to him “an interesting complement”. In any case, he reminded that this regulation was submitted to debate in the Board of Spanish Communities Abroad and he received “practically uniform support”.
About the return and the migration nowadays, he said that, even if mobility is “very difficult” to set and there are young people leaving “because of the situation of crisis and unemployment”, the “real” facts are far from fitting with the rise of 80,000 Galician people living abroad in the last four years according to the National Institute of Statistics of Spain.
“Doing this comparison would be a complete mistake, the immense majority of the cases are fitted with nationality’s acquisition’s process as consequence of the Historical Memory’s Law”, explained Miranda, who stressed in the fact that the main proof is that most of the new members of the Galician colony are registered in countries like Argentina and Cuba, towards the place where is “evident” that “there isn’t a departure’s process”.
In fact, even accepting that there’s a higher emigration’s percentage, above all young people, because of crisis, he emphasized the news relating with ways out from the Community “have been decreasing since 2009”.
AIDS AND UNDERTAKING
On the other hand, the general secretary considered “the two main aims” of his trip to Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico achieved, mentioning the meeting with the community for moving the working lines of his department and signing several relief aid agreements, as the cheaper challenge of looking for “an external implication” for obtaining new investments.
In case of the relief aid agreements, he emphasized that, from the three countries, where there is “a more important need” is in Venezuela and Brazil that he linked, above everything, with the older population, in situation of “loneliness” and without economical capacity for defraying the services they require. In Mexico, there are “more unusual” cases.
In Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro (the successor of Chávez) has just won the elections, Miranda recognised that Galician community is “eager” to know what’s going to happen with the new Government. “They want to see what it does and in what ways it can affects them direct or indirectly”, he thought.
In the same way, after the attacks suffered by some Galician businessmen who lived in this country, he admitted that the community feel the lack of safety like “an important problem” and she considers “necessary” to have “some kind of action” to face it up. “Maybe it could be one of the most important problems perceived nowadays”, he thought.
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