Ángel Víctor Torres, president of the Government of the Canary Islands, visited the Onda Tenerife studios last Monday to take stock of his management over the last four years, and in his capacity as general secretary of the Canarian socialists, he did not hesitate to describe the crisis as his party in Arona as “a historical issue”, due to the novelty of the rupture of the absolute majority of the PSOE into two blocks in the Aronero City Council, which ended with the march of seven councilors who have created another party (Más Arona), after the Mena’s appointment as PSOE candidate, a party that wanted to expel him after the open crisis in the municipal group.
Torres pointed out that “it was a thorny, complicated matter, with an absolute majority fought over that was broken by issues that had little to do with the public interest, with a magnificent group led by José Julián Mena and with people with great capacity and much loved in a fundamental municipality and, nevertheless, that broke and broke in two”. Torres added that “a painful situation arose and what happened happened and now we have a good candidate for mayor.” “What happened hurts me a lot,” he added, “because I am very fond of everyone, those who are in the PSOE and those who were there, I have to admit it. I would have liked that never to have happened, and now it will be the citizens on May 28 who have to decide”. The regional president explained that “the electoral campaign is not carried out in the previous 15 days, but during the four years, that is what the citizens have to judge.”
Regarding the management of his Government, Torres did not hesitate to describe it as “good”, among other reasons because “no community has had as many setbacks as ours, with a tourist crisis, a migratory phenomenon or a volcano. None had to overcome those difficulties, and yet, after four years, today we leave a better Canary Islands than in 2019, with better parameters, with fewer unemployed people, with less youth unemployment, with fewer permanent contracts, with more resources to dependency, with the Law against Climate Change and with the Highways agreement with billions, with more schools from 0 to 3 years”.
“One would have to wonder what would have happened if the Pact of Flowers had not governed, when, for example, only 2,300 dependency benefits had been resolved before and we left them at 10,000,” he said, not hiding the reissue of the pact if they occur the numbers.
