SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Héctor Gómez, has ruled out this Friday that the call for General Elections in the middle of the high holiday season will affect tourism and has asked not to make “speculations” that harm the sector.
In statements to journalists before meeting with the Association of Tourist Municipalities, he indicated that the forecasts for the second quarter of the year are even “better” than those of the first, and the regional and municipal elections are already included there, which have passed without “incidence”.
Along these lines, he commented that in Spain elections have always been called because there is a “full democracy” and also, the Central Electoral Board has “tools” to manage a possible absence of voters, in the case of voting by mail.
“The elections are not going to have consequences on the good evolution of tourism, which is extraordinary,” he pointed out, while stressing that “it is not convenient to buy the framework of the political sphere” that the PP tries to impose “to undermine the good tourism trend.
In his opinion, the calling of early elections “is a prerogative” of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and he maintains that encouraging possible damage to tourism is the same thing that some public officials do that “feed tourismophobia.”
