The Popular Party spokesman in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, Carlos Tarife, has pointed out the leaders of the Socialist Party and presidents of the State and Canary Islands governments, Pedro Sánchez and Ángel Víctor Torres, respectively, as “guilty of a systematic mistreatment of the capital of our island and the entire province”.
Tarife categorically rejects the fact that Santa Cruz has been left out of the list of cities that are going to host the meetings of the European Union during the semester of the Spanish presidency in 2023, and accuses the regional socialist president, Ángel Víctor Torres, of as “the main culprit in this situation”, which according to the spokesman for the Populares santacruceros, “shows that Torres has Santa Cruz between eyebrows”.
In this sense, Carlos Tarife emphasizes that “such is the case, that neither the Government of the Canary Islands nor the State Government have invested a single euro in Santa Cruz in the last three years, during which the parties of the ‘pact of the flowers’ they have systematically ignored the needs of the chicharreros.”
On the other hand, Tarife emphasizes that “Torres does not only ignore Santa Cruz, but the entire province of Tenerife”, and recalls that “what better occasion than this to make our sister island of La Palma visible, which has just gone through a catastrophic situation”. “However – adds the spokesman for the PP of Santa Cruz – they use the volcano for the photo and for the self-promotion, but they forget La Palma at a key moment in its reconstruction”, noting that “socialism behaves in a sectarian way, both with this capital and with the rest of the province”.
Carlos Tarife also indicates that “we have missed the position of the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, who is absolutely absent from the important issues in Tenerife and who should raise his voice in the face of this outrage”, and of course, “I would ask him to the spokeswoman for the PSOE in the Santa Cruz City Council, Patricia Hernández, who, from her position as a deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, presents an initiative to turn around the State Government’s contempt for this province and its capital.