SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 29 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canarian-PNC Coalition highlighted this Monday that the signing of the protocol of aid measures for regular public land transport that will allow a 50% subsidy to be applied to bus and tram tickets compared to 100% of commuter and medium-distance trains in the Peninsula is “the greatest betrayal of President Torres to the Canary Islands”.
The Canarian nationalists pointed to the weakness of a president who “is incapable of defending what he himself demanded in parliament after learning of the state government’s grievance in approving the 100% subsidy for train tickets on the Peninsula and denying the Canary Islands free transportation by bus and tram”.
CC pointed out that with the signing of the agreement in Madrid with the Minister of Transport, Ángel Víctor Torres “is allowing the Canary Islands to not have the same rights as any other citizen of another Autonomous Community”, something they described as “extremely serious, taking into account that the agreement has been signed by the president of the Canary Islands”.
In the same way, the nationalists insisted on condemning the fact that President Torres “has finally yielded despite maintaining the opposite discourse in the Canary Islands and despite the fact that socialist leaders on the islands, including mayors such as the one from La Laguna, have recognized the offense of Madrid and have demanded 100% for tram and bus transport” to which, finally, “Canaries will not be able to access”.
For the Canarian-PNC Coalition, today’s is “the worst scenario for the Canary Islands, that of a president who, far from defending the interests of his land, decides to consent to the mistreatment of this land by the State and allow the Canary Islands to not receive the same aid as a citizen of Madrid, Catalonia, Extremadura or Andalusia”.
The nationalists still do not understand that the state government’s temporary aid package for the rise in prices and the war in Ukraine “not only does not include specific measures for a more vulnerable territory due to the condition of the Canary Islands’ outermost region, but also discriminates to the Canary Islands by preventing them from accessing the same aid that any other citizen receives”, collects a note from CC.
They also condemn “the maneuvers of a president who, far from fighting in Madrid to get 100%, tried to get the councils to assume the remaining 50% of the subsidy that should come from the state coffers.”
“It is unheard of that once again Torres has acted as a subordinate of Pedro Sánchez and not as president of the Canary Islands and that he has signed an agreement that shows Madrid’s mistreatment of the Canary Islands,” they concluded.
