SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 20. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The socialist general secretary and president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has cleared this Sunday any doubt regarding the role that the PSOE will play against Vox and has made it clear that the Canarian socialists will not go with the extreme right “not even from here to the corner” .
“We are going to work and kill ourselves so that there is no representation of the extreme right in any administration in the Canary Islands,” said Ángel Víctor Torres during his speech at the closing ceremony of the PSOE Congress in Tenerife, which takes place this weekend.
During his speech, Torres demanded that other parties say whether or not they are going to agree with the extreme right to come to power and “if what they say on a Monday is the truth or what they make him correct on a Tuesday”, in a clear allusion to the Mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez (CC).
“This is a clear message that those who fool around to maintain, recover or obtain power with the extreme right must receive. They are the ones who have to give explanations,” he added.
The socialist leader has also taken stock of the legislature in the Canary Islands, highlighting that the current government, despite facing “too many adversities in a short time”, has been efficient in its responses: “Thanks to the fact that we are in government we are responding to these adversities without populism and without demagoguery, showing our faces and not hiding the bad news or the negative data, nor looking at where the poor are in the Canary Islands as they do in other communities in an absolutely unacceptable exercise in cynicism”.
In this sense, Ángel Víctor Torres has not hidden that poverty is a chronic problem in the Islands, as revealed by the Foessa Report presented this week. However, he stressed that thanks to the fact that the Government of the ‘Pacto de las Flores’ has carried out specific actions for the most vulnerable, in the Canary Islands poverty grows less than in the rest of the country and 30,000 people today receive some type of benefit in the Archipelago, six times more than in 2019, when the PSOE reached the Canarian Executive.
Torres also dedicated part of his speech to the war in Ukraine and the international crisis that it has generated: “We have to be up to the task. Today, women and men are needed in governments for bad times and to know that this crisis is also going to be to overcome, that authoritarianism will not defeat democracy or violence peace”.
Ángel Víctor Torres stressed that the Socialist Party is not going to do like other parties that make decisions “thinking about electoral revenue”: “This is a responsible, serious, rigorous and courageous PSOE that will be at the side, in bad times, of the people who are suffering and in this way we will win”, he concluded.
