Canarian self-employed take to the streets: "We are at the limit"

The Platform for the Dignity of the Self-Employed 30N mobilizes in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and 21 other provinces to demand improvements.

Image of self-employed individuals protesting in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria about their economic situation.
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Image of self-employed individuals protesting in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria about their economic situation.

Self-employed workers in the Canary Islands demonstrated this Sunday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, joining a national protest, to denounce their precarious economic and bureaucratic situation.

The Platform for the Dignity of the Self-Employed 30N organized a new mobilization day in the capital of Gran Canaria, as part of a simultaneous protest in 22 Spanish provinces. This is the fourth time the group has taken to the streets since last November 30, seeking to highlight the "limit situation" they face due to "fiscal suffocation, increased bureaucracy, and economic uncertainty."
According to the platform's president in Gran Canaria, Pilar Rodríguez, the situation for the self-employed has barely changed in the last three months. Among their main demands are the lack of vacation periods, no right to unemployment benefits, and the constant increase in monthly fees and bureaucratic procedures, factors that hinder the survival of small entrepreneurs.
The collective denounces a progressive worsening of their conditions over the years. One of their key demands is the implementation of fees adapted to turnover levels, a measure they consider essential for their viability. Rodríguez points out that the "golden years" for the self-employed were at the beginning of the century.
The platform emphasizes the continuity and regularity of its mobilizations as an unprecedented milestone in the self-employed associationism in Spain. "Achieving sustained active mobilization is a reflection of very deep structural discontent," state those from the national leadership, underscoring that the organization maintains its civil identity intact, free from partisan acronyms and focused on the real problems of the productive sector.