SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 22. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has once again maintained this Tuesday his rejection of lowering taxes to deal with the rise in prices and has defended giving direct aid to the most affected economic sectors.
In the turn to reply to the Popular Group in the ‘Debate on the State of Nationality’, he commented that lowering taxes in the face of a crisis due to lack of supply “has no way”, giving as an example that lowering the fuel tax by 20 cents will be absorbed by the market “in 10 days”.
Instead, he has opted to give direct aid in line with what was requested by the carriers or the Bank of Spain and recalled that the half-point drop in the IGIC in 2019 left the autonomous community without 170 million.
Torres has commented that to give aid “resources are needed”
and for this reason he has been in favor of raising taxes on electricity companies “which have many benefits.”
Faced with the inaction questioned by Domínguez, he pointed out that the solution to the inflation crisis has a “road map” that passes through the European summit and the Council of Ministers. “Things have to be done consistently, that’s how it was agreed at the Conference of Presidents in La Palma”, he pointed out.
Likewise, he has stressed that when the PP came to the central government in 2012, he raised taxes when he had promised otherwise in his electoral program. “When you have to maintain key services you have to have enough resources and if you don’t have them, you upload them,” he added.
Torres has admitted that poverty has increased by more than 4% in the Canary Islands but wondered “what would have happened” if the Government had applied the “same recipes” as other governments such as Catalonia, Madrid or Andalusia.
In addition, he has indicated that March “is going to end with good data” in the Canary Islands, something that “should make the opposition happy”.
Torres has indicated that he has never been “concerned” about a possible motion of censure because “this land needs stability” after many years of dismissals and changes of government. “We started and we will finish the Legislature”, he highlighted.
He has also said that President Pedro Sánchez “does not marginalize the REF” because in the 2022 PGE there are all the items “for the first time” and even his own Executive voted against the Government of Spain in Parliament, something he did not do never the PP.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO FOOL WITH THE FAR RIGHT
Regarding the migratory crisis, he lamented that while in 2005 many city councils and councils “put in resources” and now “things have changed, they touch and the doors do not open.”
For Torres, “it’s amazing that they go looking for Ukrainians and don’t love other people because they come from another culture, another continent and with another color.”
He has commented that the Canary Islands was not prepared for this “wave” and at the same time that he has valued the offer of the Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to welcome unaccompanied migrant minors, he has criticized that Madrid only protects five.
Regarding the crisis in Western Sahara, he stressed that any agreement must be “approved” by the Polisario Front and wondered if the president of Ceuta is also “a puppet” by supporting the content of the letter sent by Pedro Sánchez to the King of Morocco.
Torres has snapped at the PP that you cannot fool around with the extreme right and assume some speeches, stressing that 96% of Canarians do not pay tax on their electricity bill and that of hydrocarbons has the IGIC at zero rate and has a tax differential with the Peninsula.
