The candidate for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the PP, Carlos Tarife, has become the center of attention. Not because of his proposals for May 28, but because of a controversial photo published this Wednesday on social networks. In it, he appears with two workers in a sex shop holding “a piggy bank in the shape of a rather considerate virile member”. This image has sparked much criticism and has turned the candidate into trending topic On twitter.
Given the debate generated, Tarife has published an explanatory message on his Facebook profile in view of the fact that the photo, which was taken during a pre-campaign visit to the Concorde shopping center, in the Ofra neighborhood, was circulating strongly on social networks. What’s more, he attributes it to “some political charges” related to other candidacies.
“You have to be retrograde to be wasting time (political leaders) from Santa Cruz from other political formations, to be sending this simple photo,” proclaims the candidate in his message, which he concludes by advising those people who, he believes, are trying to undermine his image and harm him electorally, “that they be happier.”
Tarife has elaborated on his explanations in an interview on Radio Marca Tenerife, in which he has detailed that upon entering the sex shop he introduced himself to the workers as a PP candidate for Mayor and handed them a brochure with his printed image and a code QR with your electoral program.
At one point they asked him to take a photo with them and he accepted, and since they held a photo of him in their hands, he asked them what he took to pose, and since on the counter there was a piggy bank “in the shape of a rather considerate virile member ”, He did not think about it and held it while they were photographed.
Tarife has defended that “delivery evenings have to be fun” and the number two in her candidacy, Zaida González, has recommended that political opponents who try to use this photo to make a profit “go to these girls’ store, that they will acquire immediate happiness.”
