SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 12 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has affirmed today Wednesday that the proposal of the national secretary general of the Canary Islands Coalition and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Fernando Clavijo, to reduce the IGIC from 7% to 5% only intends to “scratch votes “, is “populist” and is characteristic of someone who “knows that he is going to go to the opposition because they do not give him the numbers.”
In statements to the media, the also general secretary of the PSOE on the islands has indicated that Fernando Clavijo’s proposal may mean a reduction in income that could be over one billion euros. “The question is where does it reduce it from?” Ángel Víctor Torres wondered.
The president warned that having a billion less income means “that we are not going to continue with schools from 0 to 3 years old in the Canary Islands; that we are going to reduce the support that is being given to have more teachers and more toilets; that we are not going to to have support teams for dependency; that is, we are going to break the welfare state with measures that are neither progressive nor fair because they only benefit high incomes”.
Torres maintained that the policy that is carried out by the Government of the Canary Islands and the Socialist Party is “exactly contrary” to what Fernando Clavijo proposes, and involves “laying the foundations of the welfare state, for making those who have more pay more And for not putting health, education, basic services, dependency, and everything that has to do with the most vulnerable sectors at risk.
