SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 22. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, said this Tuesday that the archipelago is “stronger” now to face an economic crisis and hopes that “when the economic boom” arrives, poverty can be “turned around” and there is a “greater balance” and “true social justice”.
In the turn to reply to the spokesperson for the Mixed Group, Vidina Espino, the president harshly criticized her “populism” by demanding that “superfluous expenses” end and requesting the resignation of the Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Olivera, for organizing lunches with entrepreneurs for an amount of 15,000 euros.
The president has closed the door to the dismissal of the deputy minister and recalled that the meetings are part of the work to present projects to the ‘Next Generation’ funds together with the business associations and that they will create 10,000 jobs.
“With the 15,000 euros, poverty is not going to be solved or by removing ministries or advisers, it is changed in another way, maintaining the welfare state and pulling from the private”, he has indicated, while stressing that it is “incoherent” that Espino does not leave the seat despite abandoning his political formation (Cs).
Torres has guaranteed that his Government will make all the pertinent budgetary modifications to maintain the welfare state and has described the “roadmap” in which he is working to deal with the rise in prices, specifically through indebtedness, direct aid and the additional Posei.
He has also valued the “social cushion” put in place so that poverty does not grow more than in other communities, putting on the table that 30,000 people are now served through PCI and the Minimum Vital Income when there were only 5,000 people covered at start the Legislature.
Likewise, he has commented that the Canary Islands “does not lose anything” of the 600 million that were not executed in 2021 because there is committed spending and the fiscal rules are suspended and it has been claimed as “submissive” to the interests of the Canary Islands, not those of the central government .
