AM-CC Brings the Nationality Debate to Study Fuerteventura’s Carrying Capacity

The Majorera‑Canary Coalition Assembly (AM‑CC) has placed the need to define the island’s carrying capacity at the heart of the debate on the status of the Canary Nationality. The goal is to curb over‑tourism, orderly manage growth, and reconcile tourism with territorial conservation and quality of life.

According to a press release from AM‑CC, a key resolution championed by deputies Mario Cabrera, Natalia Évora and Jana González proposes that each island’s carrying capacity become a central, cross‑cutting criterion for public and private decision‑making within a new sustainable‑development strategy.

The initiative aims to address the demographic surge and tourism pressure that Fuerteventura is experiencing. In this context, Mario Cabrera praised the Canary Government President Fernando Clavijo for bringing the island’s situation into the debate.

“The growth we have been witnessing in recent years forces us to reopen this debate with seriousness and responsibility. We must analyze Fuerteventura’s carrying capacity to ensure the island can continue developing its main industry—tourism—without losing our identity, without degrading the landscape, and while ensuring a better redistribution of wealth,” Cabrera said.

In the note released by AM‑CC, Cabrera recalled that the organization has defended territorial‑protection measures for decades, citing the ban on building tourist establishments in the Saladar de Jandía and the removal of 55,000 new accommodation places in 2007. He added that the proposal seeks to determine “with rigor” the island’s true carrying capacity so that political decisions rest on objective criteria and expert knowledge.

The communiqué also reported that, during one of the parliamentary sessions, the Cabildo president Lola García and the Mayor of La Oliva, Isaí Blanco, attended. García emphasized that the regional executive should place the demographic challenge at the centre of political debate and noted that both the Cabildo and FECAI have been demanding a carrying‑capacity analysis to guarantee infrastructure, services, and quality of life.

“Fuerteventura cannot continue growing at the same pace as before,” García asserted.

AM‑CC further included statements from Territorial Policy and Cohesion Minister Manuel Miranda, who acknowledged the need to study the island’s demographic situation, and from Mayor Isaí Blanco, who urged measures against uncontrolled growth. These positions were also supported by President Clavijo and by Canarian Nationalist Group spokesperson José Miguel Barragán, who defended island‑planning tools and a more sustainable, regenerative tourism model focused on quality rather than quantity.

Other Resolutions for Fuerteventura

In addition to the demographic and territorial focus, AM‑CC highlighted several resolutions approved in sectors that affect Fuerteventura:

• Health: Prioritise hospital care, reduce waiting lists, strengthen primary care, develop infrastructure such as the CAE of La Lajita, and improve medical transport with sanitised ambulances.
• Innovation & Economic Development: Support the potential of the Fuerteventura Technology Park.
• Waste Management & Energy Transition: Amend the PIRCAN to incorporate waste valorisation, promote material reuse, and reinforce the circular economy—linked to the second edition of “Fuerteventura Needs You”.
• Security: Deploy the Canary Police across all islands, with special attention to establishing a police station in La Lajita, and urge the State, together with veterinary colleges, to guarantee 24‑hour emergency veterinary services similar to on‑call pharmacies.
• Social Welfare & Dependency: Expand real services for the elderly and dependent persons, draft the III Socio‑Health Infrastructure Plan, and accredit professionals and entities for personal‑autonomy promotion—crucial for Fuerteventura given the scarcity of service providers in certain areas.
• Additional Measures: Finalise the Canary Citizenship Income, strengthen social‑integration programmes, introduce new financing formulas for the dependency system, consolidate the network for victims of gender and vicarious violence, promote the Integral Youth Plan and the Canary Immigration Plan, and facilitate participation of non‑capital island seniors in IMSERSO trips.