SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 15 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has admitted the difficulty of obtaining a new extension of the Canary Islands Investment Reserve (RIC), as happened in 2021, and clarified that this was something “absolutely exceptional” .
The president, who has participated in a new SER Meeting, affirmed that achieving an extension of the RIC materialization deadlines is something “so difficult” that it had never happened before, not even in the worst years of the previous crises.
Ángel Víctor Torres wanted to recall that in 2020, due to the fact that the Canarian economy was closed for three months due to confinement and that the Canarian GDP fell 20 points, it was achieved “in extremis” and in an “agony” way to extend the RIC for another year.
Torres said that in 2021 “the circumstances have been different” and, although he considers it “desirable” that there be a new extension, he reiterated that the Government already announced at the time that it was something “absolutely exceptional” motivated by “extremely burdensome” reasons.
“I’m left with the fact that that year of extension was achieved. I would have liked to have had two but we were able to stay at zero,” said the Canarian president.
In relation to the extension of the ERTE, which expires on February 28, Ángel Víctor Torres was convinced that an agreement will be reached and that a solution will be sought because it has always been agreed that way when it was “essential and necessary”.
