SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has defended this Tuesday the “integral and honest” work of the officials of the regional Livestock area before the revelations of the ‘Corridor case’.
“They are not having a good time,” he pointed out in reply to the Citizens (Cs) deputy, Ricardo Fernández, in the ‘Debate on the State of Canary Islands Nationality’, in which he insisted that according to the report legally, there are no “anomalies” in the granting of European subsidies or patrimonial damage to the regional coffers.
Torres has demanded that “it be investigated until the end” because there has been an alleged use of “privileged information” to “extort” businessmen and recalled that from the first day the two socialist leaders were investigated they were expelled and the following day, he appeared publicly to explain the facts and two days later, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alicia Vanoostende, reported the opening of an internal investigation.
The president has valued the “constructive” speech of Fernández de la Puente, who has been an “example” for reaching agreements in Parliament throughout the legislature.
He has warned that productivity in the Canary Islands “has not increased since the 1990s when it peaked”, and it is a matter that “is not easy to resolve”, while remarking that “the foundations have been laid” for the plan of housing and that society has not gone bankrupt thanks to “the effort of the public”.
He has also indicated that the ‘mask case’ “hurts” him, although it cannot “tarnish” the Government’s management during the pandemic and stressed that “we must continue working” to guarantee exemptions to green taxes given that Germany is “very demanding “. “It will not be easy even if we are RUP,” she pointed out.
Regarding irregular immigration, he has indicated that it has decreased by 66% so far this year and in the Canary Islands there are less than 1,000 migrants and some 1,600 minors since there have been referrals and on La Palma, although he has recognized “errors”, he maintains that “the maximum that has been possible has been done”.
He has stressed that the eruption is a catastrophe for which “there was no precedent” and for this reason, he has appreciated that the public administrations have worked “hand in hand” to initiate a reconstruction that future governments must continue.
