SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 17. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands and PSOE candidate for re-election, Ángel Víctor Torres, met this Wednesday with representatives of CEOE-Tenerife and offered to increase “public-private collaboration” to boost economic growth on the islands.
In statements to journalists before the meeting, he pointed out that in the Legislature that has just finished the provision “has been excellent”, giving as an example the approval of the Reactiva Canarias Plan, the additional provision for the islands in the ERTE, the almost 1,500 million in direct aid to companies and the self-employed or the progress made in the Advisory Council through “consensus and unanimity”.
Likewise, it has advanced “new proposals” for the next legislature such as the one-year zero quota for new self-employed workers.
Torres recalled that during the pandemic more than 20,000 companies and the self-employed were helped with direct aid that, if not delivered, many “would have closed.”
Thus, he has detailed that hotel companies today present “big data”, which “demonstrates the strength” of the Canary Islands, which has closed the first quarter of the year with the highest tourist spending in its history and “more people working than ever”, some 75,000 than in 2019, while also remarking that foreign investment was a “record” in 2022.
The Canarian president has also valued the “fiscal effort” made by the Government to “relieve” the cost of the shopping basket but has made it clear that “the best thing” is to have an income through employment or, failing that, with the “shield social” that has taken hold in the last four years.
Along these lines, he has highlighted that it has gone from 4,000 families protected through the PCI (Canary Islands Insertion Benefit) to more than 50,000 with all the mechanisms unemployed by the regional and national Government.
However, he has pointed out that the pandemic has shown that if you walk “hand in hand and with loyalty” the economic results of the island “are better.”
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife and candidate for re-election, Pedro Martín, has highlighted that 2022 ended as the year with the highest budget execution for the corporation, with 858 million, which means “invigorating the economy”.
He has also had an impact on the development of plans to promote employment and aid to companies and has recognized his “illusion” in the execution of the “major infrastructures” pending on the island and that they are going to generate a “very powerful activity”.
Martín has valued that there is “more employment” now than at the beginning of the mandate –28,000 more workers– and has defended that work is being done “on the right path” to promote and develop the island.
