The president of the Socialist Group warns of a “democratic deficit” in the islands due to the electoral system and claims his electoral victory
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acting president of the Government of the Canary Islands and president of the Socialist Group, Ángel Víctor Torres, has described the new quadripartite that will be formed as of this Wednesday as the “pact of distrust” under the new organic structure based on “positions crossed”, apart from the fact that he has predicted that it will be “more expensive” than the previous one.
In the investiture debate, Clavijo has asked not to “reverse” the welfare state on the islands and has warned of the risks of the PP occupying the commissioner of the REF since it was the party that most breached the document between 2011 and 2016.
He said that his speech in the morning was “hollow rhetoric” with a “flat” speech in which he did not assess the progress of the previous Government, which faced many difficulties due to the health pandemic and the economic crisis derived from the stoppage of the tourism, and in the specific case of La Palma, the volcanic eruption.
He has defended the work of his Executive on the island and the arrival of aid from all administrations and has stressed that the draft of the “done” law has been left for the new Government to continue the task of reconstruction.
Torres has made an effort to offer official data to highlight his work in the last Legislature, with 30,000 less Canarians, more tourist spending and 70,000 more members than four years ago, for which reason he has challenged Clavijo to match those indicators in four years.
He has criticized the fact that there are more public positions in the new government, twelve ministries and a commissioner, has demanded that Clavijo “equalize” the development of renewable energies and has stressed that the climate change law “has been a success.” “Are you going to repeal it?” He asked the candidate.
Regarding taxes, he has been surprised by the announcement of the general lowering of the IGIC since it will mean a loss of about 500 million, which if added to what the city councils and councils stop receiving will be more than 1,100 million. “Where are you going to cut from?” he has wondered.
Torres has pointed out that Clavijo promised to lower taxes before the voters and hopes that he will not repeat the “tricks” of the former president of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, who promised to lower them during the campaign and raised them when he came to power.
RESPECT THE HOUSING PLAN
He has invited the future president to continue with the social shield and “multiply by seven” the protection of the most vulnerable families, to end the “limbo of dependency” and maintain investment in public health.
Along these lines, he has indicated that the Government must continue with the housing plan already underway, as well as with the planning of roads where a “great job” has been done. “Don’t delay,” he commented.
Torres has also thanked the work of all the parties that made up the ‘Pact of Flowers’ and has challenged Clavijo to present a “better Canary Islands” and defend the archipelago with “courage and firmness” before the central government.
He has also asked him to “finish the job” as president of the OR conference and an asylum and migration pact can be carried out and the exceptions in air and environmental taxes be saved definitively.
He has warned Clavijo that the reconstruction on La Palma “is not going to be easy” or fast and has asked him if he is going to tell those affected to abandon modular homes because there will be other housing solutions.
OPEN A DEBATE ON ELECTORAL REFORM
He has also said that the candidate lost 34,000 votes on the regional list and he himself won another 32,000, for which reason he has asked Parliament for a “reflection” since there is a “democratic deficit” because there have been too many CC governments without winning the elections.
“I say it without resentment”, he has indicated, but he has opened the door to reforming the electoral system with a “calm” debate so that the regional list adds more than 12% of the current seats.
Regarding the PP’s announcement that the most voted lists should govern, “if I have seen you, I don’t remember”, he ironized, while showing his desire for coexistence and “unanimity” in social advances and rights to be remain in Parliament given that the popular are reaching agreements with the “extreme right” in other institutions.
Along these lines, he has asked Clavijo if he signed an agreement with Vox for the inauguration of the Teguise City Council and has invited him to clarify if his party will support an investiture of a PP-Vox government at the state level or if it will change its attitude of “madriditis” if Pedro Sánchez is not re-elected president.
“NOT EVERYTHING GOES TO GET TO POWER”
He has commented that “not everything goes to get to power” and has warned that “censoring is stealing rights and breaking freedom”, making Clavijo ugly for forgetting equality and machismo in his investiture speech.
He has confessed that he remains in the Canary Islands to “show” that there are recipes and ways of governing that give better results than others, to thank those who trusted his candidacy and “for the Canary Islands”, advancing a “constructive but firm” opposition. reaching out to whatever is “good” and making their “experience” available.
However, he has warned that they will have the PSOE “in front” if there are setbacks in rights and in the fight against climate change and if “wings” are given to the extreme right, stressing that the objective is for there to be “stability” in the future Executive despite the fact that it is known that the public wanted another president.
