SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 30. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The acting president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has appealed on the Day of the autonomous community for the next legislature to maintain the course achieved in these four years, not to back down in the defense of the social shield and, especially , to be firm against those who threaten the welfare state.
During his speech at the institutional event for Canary Islands Day, held at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Ángel Víctor Torres stressed that there is no greater honor than being in charge of the Government of the Canary Islands, especially in “extremely complex” years in which “the ability, so island, to start again where everything suddenly disappears, has been the essence that in these four years has made us advance like almost never before”.
As a balance, Torres valued the advances in dependency, in housing and in the protection of the most vulnerable families; in education; in digitization; In the economy; and in employment figures. “I want that course to be maintained,” said the president, addressing in some way those who will be in charge of the new Government of the Canary Islands.
At the same time, he appealed that, from now on, “the path not be undone” that has begun with the Canarian Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030; that climate change denial “doesn’t make its way”; that the potential of the Canary Islands as a leading region in renewable energy “is not diminished”; and, in the same way, that there is no backing down in the defense of the social shield “for the good of this society that today is more just and balanced”.
He also asked the majority of the parliamentary arc that there will be “resistance, firmness and determination in democratic values” over the next four years against those who “threaten the welfare state and freedom”, in a clear allusion to political parties such as VOX, which for the first time they will have representation in the Canary Islands Parliament after having won four seats in these elections.
“Resistance against those who want to weaken the State of Autonomies and the self-government that we are celebrating; firmness against those who do not believe in equality between women and men; determination against those who blame the weakest people for all ills; and courage and courage against intolerance”, stressed the president in his speech.
As if it were a farewell message, Ángel Víctor Torres wished that the Canary Islands “continue to be one of the places in the world where it is best to live, work and educate our daughters and sons”. “Thanks to each and every one of you for making it easy for me in circumstances that were not traced in any of the routes that we thought we would follow four years ago. Routes that, in any case, we will continue to trace hand in hand,” he added.
Lastly, he congratulated Pepe Alemán, winner of the Canarias de Comunicación Award; the Spanish Association Against Cancer, Canary Islands Award for Altruistic and Solidarity Actions; and to the NGO Coordinator for the Development of the Canary Islands, International Award, as well as to the entities and people who receive the Gold Medal of the autonomous community. “Without you none of what we have achieved would have been possible,” he said.
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The journalist Pepe Alemán, who spoke on behalf of all the winners of the night, thanked some recognitions that, according to what he said, “respond to the need to put an end to the remains of the old confrontation between the two Canarian provincial capitals from which neither took advantage because The consequences of that battle were painful and very negative”.
Alemán wanted to recall that the idea of the Canary Islands Awards “spoke up in the magazine” of the former regional president Jerónimo Saavedra, not on a whim, but because of the need to create references that would reduce tensions and antipathies, providing “a good service to the islands by slowing down the fratricidal dispute that, not because it was entertaining, but at times funny, ceased to be disastrous”.
The award-winner finished his speech “with the hope that the inter-island clashes will subside and only sporting events will remain for a relief from day-to-day tensions. Or to accommodate other types of non-destructive tensions of any reasonable understanding”.
