SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 14 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced this Tuesday that the planned trip to Morocco will not finally take place this week and will be postponed to March 15 and 16 due to schedule adjustments.
In response to a question from the Popular Group in plenary session of Parliament, he has indicated that he will travel accompanied by some twenty businessmen from the islands in order to strengthen commercial relations and open new business channels.
He has said that he will meet with the president of the Moroccan Parliament, the prime minister and the person in charge of Foreign Action and indicated that this trip responds to a tradition of Canarian presidents -the previous one, Fernando Clavijo, visited Morocco in January 2019, to four months of the elections–.
Faced with criticism from the popular, he pointed out that “perhaps others swallowed more toads” than the Socialists, since of 12 high-level meetings held between Spain and Morocco, six were held with a PP government “and the Government of the Canary Islands was not not once” and there “was no problem.
Torres has criticized the “opportunism and political cynicism” of the PP spokesman, Manuel Domínguez, stressing that “people know where they are” and that of four meetings between delegations from the two countries, the Canarian Executive has been present in three.
“I am concerned and busy working for the well-being of the canaries and their safety,” he added.
Domínguez has ironized that they have “guaranteed” the president “that they will receive him” and they will not give him a “sit-in” like the one Mohammed VI did to the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, although he has said that he will not “Ridicule is worrying” because “the entire Legislature has been swallowing toads” –in reference to the statements of the Socialist MEP, Juan Fernando López Aguilar–.
He has described Torres as the “perfect party man” for Pedro Sánchez because he has not defended the islands “not once” and he has wondered if on the trip to Morocco “he is going to talk” about the territorial waters, the Sahara, the sovereignty or immigration.
He has also indicated that “his stomach has shown that he has enough” because he has not done “anything” in the face of the “shame” that Pedro Sánchez “has folded” against Morocco. “They have sold us, they have humiliated us and they continue in a passive position,” he commented.
Domínguez has reported that the central government allocates 122 million to border control and there have already been “more than 4,000 deaths” trying to reach the Canary Islands, so he believes that “it is time to stop wasting money and make a show.”
“There have been four years of nonsense, of humiliation, and they are not going to correct it in three months, he still has time to leave,” he snapped at the president.
