SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28 Sep. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The national secretary general of the Canarian Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, rejected this Wednesday the “apathy” of the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, to undertake a tax reduction to mitigate the impact of inflation that other autonomous presidents of the PSOE have already announced , case of the Valencian Ximo Puig.
For the leader of the nationalists, “the main problem in the Canary Islands is that we have a president who is waiting for what Pedro Sánchez tells him or authorizes him to act” and the situation caused by the rise in prices “does not even leave room to be arms crossed or to prolong decisions that must be taken when citizens need it”.
Clavijo, who recalled the selective tax reduction proposed by the nationalists since the beginning of the crisis caused by inflation and the war in Ukraine, maintained that the Canarian president “has no excuses to undertake it because the Canary Islands also have their own fiscal regime and there is room of maneuver to touch special taxes and to deflate in the autonomic section”.
For the secretary general of CC, Torres “once again is in line with the regional presidents of the PSOE, including the Valencian Community or Castilla La Mancha, who have decided to step forward and not wait for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to adopt decisions that would improve the situation of many families, of many people who cannot afford the rise in prices”.
For Clavijo, “doing nothing, as Torres and his government do, is punishing citizens who lose purchasing power every day while the Government of the Canary Islands collects more and executes less.”
In this context, the leader of the Canarian nationalists rejected a government “incapable, which does not introduce anti-cyclical policies to try to ensure that the impact of the crisis in which we are already involved reaches families and the economic fabric, a government that is subject to to what Pedro Sánchez says and that puts the interests of Madrid before those of the Canary Islands”.
