SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 29 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The regional secretary of the PP of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, lamented this Monday that the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, “has officially converted the Canary Islands into second-class Spaniards”, after the collaboration protocol was signed to coordinate the application of transitory aid measures for regular and land public transport in the Canary Islands, raising the discount on multi-trip passes and tickets to 50%.
“While in the Peninsula train transport will be free, in the Canary Islands the president once again accepts the crumbs for the islands of Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE, allowing only 50% to be subsidized,” Poli Suárez reproaches.
“For Torres it is more important to get along with Sánchez than to defend the islands and the Canary Islands,” he added in a note.
The PP understands that, with this signature, the low weight of Torres in the PSOE and the Government of Spain is “proven and tested, since last July he assured in Parliament that he would ask the Government of Spain for a 100% subsidy of bus transport, after the Debate on the State of the Nation in which Sánchez did not announce any specific measure for the Canary Islands”.
He also pointed out that “the 50% subsidy will not reach all the islands because in the case of El Hierro public transport is already free and in La Graciosa they have not even thought about its triple insularity, since the residents of the eighth island have they must take the boat to get to their homes”.
The regional secretary of the PP of the Canary Islands recalled that it is not the first time that Torres “gives up” before Sánchez because “he has already done so in immigration matters, applauding a disastrous policy that turns the Canary Islands into a prison and the Atlantic into a sad cemetery.”
In his opinion, “Torres applauds the fact that Sánchez abandons the Saharawi cause and runs over the Economic and Fiscal Regime.”
“We do not expect anything from this weak Government of the Canary Islands before Madrid and we wonder if Mr. Román Rodríguez agrees with this treatment for the islands,” he concluded.
