SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has defended this Wednesday the “rotundity” of the PSOE with the two involved in the alleged corruption plot in the livestock subsector and that has ended with the suspension of militancy of the former general director of Livestock, Taishet Fuentes, who has been arrested, and the national deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes.
“What had to be done has been done,” he told journalists, stressing that neither the PSOE nor the Canary Islands government itself “compromises with any case of alleged corruption.”
Torres, who is also secretary general of the Canarian Socialists, has indicated that Fuentes was dismissed as general director last June due to “loss of confidence” at a time when there was a “major conflict” with the ranchers that led him to to have to mediate personally.
He pointed out that they had detected “absence of management” and also some “attitude” problems that led to the loss of confidence on the part of the Executive and, therefore, to his dismissal, which at the expense of “proving” the plot of extortion, “it was a wise decision.
Torres has also appreciated that Juan Bernardo Fuentes has resigned — “it is what he had to do” — and has insisted that in the PSOE “there is no weakness” in the face of an alleged case of corruption like the one that has been discovered in Fuerteventura.
On the role of the Minister of Livestock, Alicia Vanoostende, she has indicated that “she is analyzing everything” with her legal team and this Thursday, in the Governing Council, she will give the appropriate explanations, noting that the alleged plot has “many derivatives” and there are people from “outside the Canary Islands” involved.
In any case, he has commented that both the Executive and his political organization collaborate with justice in order to “clarify everything”.
