SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 7 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has branded this Friday as “indisputable” that the General State Budgets (PGE) for next year are the largest investment in the history of the Canary Islands, with more than 9,600 million.
Speaking to journalists before meeting with the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, and Canarian businessmen, he detailed that it is objective data because “it is enough to add all the chapters to recognize it”.
He has given as an example that all the items linked to the REF are included, that the Comprehensive Employment Plan grows by 3 million when the PP in the Government “withdrew it” or that there is a special plan for La Palma endowed with 30 million plus another six million for housing.
It has also stressed that the social nature of the state accounts, with more funds for scholarships and a rise in pensions, in accordance with the revaluation of the CPI, which is going to leave almost 500 million more among the pensioners of the islands, which confirms that The Government is committed to defending the most vulnerable people to face the increase in the price of the shopping basket.
Torres thanked the minister for his two-day visit to the archipelago, which “has shown its face” when there were problems with the attention to migrants and has now continued “solving problems” such as the hiring of additional personnel to reinforce the Security offices. Social.
Regarding the 50% subsidy for land transport by bus and tram, the commitment of the central government, made public yesterday, to extend the measure on the islands throughout 2023, something that despite the “skeptics”, was highlighted. will ratify before the end of this exercise.
He recalled that extending it to 2023 was the starting position of the Canarian Government if the consequences derived from high inflation, the increase in the price of raw materials and the war in Ukraine persisted and he has stressed that on the Peninsula only free for 10% of public transport users since the AVE and the metro are left out, for example, and the buses only receive 30%.
“You can’t compare chestnuts with eggs,” he pointed out in reference to the comparison made by the Canarian opposition between buses and trains, at the same time that it also made him ugly that in the last plenary session they rejected an amendment by the groups of the ‘Pact of the Flores’ to request that the 50% discount be extended to all of 2023.
