SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 18. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The general secretary of the PSOE and candidate for re-election as president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, referred this Thursday to the intention of advancing in the drafting of a law that guarantees the protection of the elderly in the archipelago in situations of vulnerability.
In an act held in Candelaria, in which he was accompanied by the Organization Secretary of the PSOE and candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the island of Tenerife, Nira Fierro; the candidate for re-election as president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, and the candidate for Mayor of Candelaria, Mari Brito, insisted that the intention is to have a legal framework that protects the elderly at the same level that is already protected to minors.
The initiative, included in the socialist electoral program, stresses that a regulation is necessary to ensure the integrity of the elderly, through the prevention of situations of violence or abandonment, and promoting dignified aging, well-being and quality of life.
Torres insisted that this is one of the objectives set by the Canarian socialists for the next legislature, in which the commitment and support of the PSOE for social policies will also be ratified.
The candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands recalled that an example of this socialist commitment is the Dependency Law, approved since 2006, and which has since allowed a total of 41,000 benefits to be granted, collects a note from the PSOE.
Torres stressed that practically half, a total of 19,000, have been managed and granted in the last four years of the ‘Pact of Flowers’ and insisted on the need to promote a Socio-sanitary Infrastructure Plan, agreed with the island councils, which allows definitively improve the services provided to the elderly and dependent people of the archipelago.
For her part, Nira Fierro stressed that social policies and their defense are in the PSOE’s DNA, complying with the execution and development of commitments in defense of people’s rights. In the same way, she added, that the boost to job creation, especially among the female population.
Fierro insisted that this double path allows the fulfillment of social rights “in a resounding commitment of the socialist party also for the next four years, as we have done this Legislature.”
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In his speech, Pedro Martín stressed that the proposal in Tenerife is to continue the path of listening and betting on the elderly, disabled or those who may be immersed in a process of social exclusion, alleviating their situation.
He also announced the will of the Cabildo to build a new center for the elderly in Barranco Hondo, as has already been done in Santa Úrsula or La Victoria.
Along with this, he promised to continue promoting social measures and increasing the items in social resources in order to “make a society not only fairer, but also more honest.”
For her part, the candidate for re-election as mayor of Candelaria, Mari Brito, stressed the importance of listening to social groups and those linked to the third sector, who can count on the PSOE “as a guarantee of progress and future for the municipality, the island and the Canary Islands.
