SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 9. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Coalition candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has rejected the ecotax announced by the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, because “it will reduce competitiveness and employment and puts the economic engine of the Islands against the ropes, especially when the The European Union has on the table the imposition of new taxes such as the green tax or emission rights”.
The leader of the Canarian nationalists reproached Torres for returning “to pull the eco-tax as he did four years ago, in the last electoral campaign, only that in this case the occurrence seems to respond more to the imposition of his partners from United We Can, than has already begun to mark the tourist agenda for the PSOE”.
For the leader of the Canary Islands Coalition, the PSOE’s electoral program “is not only unrealistic or credible, but it is also completely inconsistent; they cannot be defending that the Canary Islands get rid of taxes on air transport and put in their electoral program a tourist tax.
Clavijo insisted that “it cannot be said that you defend the exception of the Canary Islands from the green tax, as President Torres has stated, even though he has not done the task within the EU to do so, endangering 40,000 jobs and one million tourists, and now defend here the imposition of an eco-tax that would reduce competitiveness and employment in the Canarian tourism sector and make accommodation prices more expensive at the worst moment and with the rise of direct competitors such as Morocco”.
Fernando Clavijo warned that the proposal of the Canarian PSOE is “irresponsible”, although he acknowledged that it has “more electoral propaganda than a serious proposal, since in the same electoral program of the Socialists they recognize that they will agree with the tourism sector because they do not even have made”.
The CC candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands also pointed to other measures in the electoral program of the Socialists such as incentives to reduce accommodation beds in exchange for improving the category of establishments. “It is a hodgepodge of unconnected measures that do not think of a model or a plan for the tourism sector, so that the Canary Islands continue to be a leading destination,” he asserted.
Clavijo assured today in Lanzarote that it is not possible to govern “at the stroke of a whim or with the polls in hand, you have to govern seriously and rigorously.” For the candidate, the measure announced by Torres to tax tourism “is evidence that the Canarian PSOE has no project for the Island or the Canary Islands and that we are in the hands of people who have no sense of loyalty or commitment to the Canary Islands nor with the tourism sector” something that he assured “we are convinced that we will change the Canarian nationalists on May 28 because it is more necessary than ever.”
