SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has guaranteed this Tuesday that the regional administration is making embargoes to try to recover the 4 million euros lost in the purchase of false masks at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
“There are embargo orders, but we cannot publicize which ones,” the president asserted to questions from the president and spokesman for the PP of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez, during the control session with the Government in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
Torres remarked that the Canary Islands are working “in this recovery process”, “unlike other governments”, in reference to the City Council and the Community of Madrid, both of the PP, and their alleged excessive commissions on the purchase of masks.
Domínguez (PP) accused the current government of “bad management” and of being a “bad government”, inviting Torres to get “his head out of that hole in which he has been for so long”. For all this, he maintained that his Executive “should resign en bloc because of the image that they have transferred from this land.” “They are capable of anything to maintain power,” he added.
The spokesman and president of the Gomera Socialist Association (ASG), Casimiro Curbelo, asked about the Spanish-Portuguese summit, from which Torres highlighted that issues such as the cap on gas will be discussed, positions on migration policies in Europe and also on rules will be approached. fiscal for the countries most affected by the coronavirus crisis.
During the session, the Podemos deputy, Manuel Marrero, celebrated the dependency data on the islands, which is managed by his party, to which Torres added that “when there is a government that is committed to people, fair employment is also generated”, in in relation to the creation of jobs related to dependency.
On behalf of CC, the deputy Pablo Rodríguez made ugly to the regional president the non-updating of the costs in the subsidies for the transport of merchandise, to which Torres replied that on March 23 the mixed commission of the Canary Islands-State will raise a proposal to remedy it . “It’s the difference between those of us who seek conflict and those of us who work to find solutions,” he said. Socialist deputy Nira Fierro remarked that in this legislature “everything has happened”, but “everything has been overcome” thanks to a government that deals with problems.
