SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, has minimized this Thursday the criticism of the president of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Ángel Víctor Torres, of his inauguration speech and has vindicated this Legislature as that of “consensus, dialogue and moderation”.
“I don’t quite understand what part of those things that are typical of a healthy democracy you have not liked,” he told journalists after completing the round of talks with the parliamentary groups and proposing Fernando Clavijo (CC) as a candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands
Pérez stressed that in his speech he said that he was going to make democratic values ”rule” because he believes in “political pluralism” and in “working for the general interest” within the “legitimate respect” for each ideology that is represented in the Chamber .
Along these lines, he has shown his surprise that Torres does not understand the discourse that is based on the bases of “consensus, moderation” and not on “sectarianism and yes on respect for constitutional and democratic values.”
“It is how I understand that the institutional part of a chamber and a legislative assembly, with maximum impartiality and absolute respect for political pluralism, must be developed,” he said.
