SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acting president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, criticized today Monday that the new government formed by the Canary Islands Coalition (CC), the Popular Party (PP), AHI and ASG is going to involve “much more public spending” by increasing the number of ministries and create the figure of the commissioner of the REF.
In statements to the media, Ángel Víctor Torres drew attention to the fact that the outgoing government is going to give way to an Executive “with more ministries, with more public spending and, therefore, contrary to what was said that they were going to to slim down the Administration”.
Torres pointed out that these days there is a lot of debate about what responsibility or chair one or another political force will occupy, but he reiterated that from the outset “there will be more seats occupied, more public spending and I think that this is not good.”
The acting president avoided assessing the profiles that are being considered for the ministries but did demand that the new Government within four years “deliver a better Canary Islands than the one it receives”, that is, “with more people working, less poverty and better relations with the Government of Spain”.
He also advanced that the socialist parliamentary group, which will be the majority with 23 seats, will develop a “rigorous, coherent, responsible opposition, far from populism, demagogy, with a choice of government and very demanding.”
Questioned about the beginning of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU, Ángel Víctor Torres wanted to recall that in these six months there will be important meetings of both the ORs and the ministers of the different countries of the European Union in the Canary Islands, and he will to coincide also with the last six months of the presidency of the Canary Islands of the Outermost Regions.
For this reason, he appealed to the next president of the Canary Islands to “take the reins” of what has been achieved in all this time from the ORs (…) so that the archipelago is the headquarters of the European Tourism Agency and there is a asylum and migration pact that makes the 27 Member States have a mandatory co-responsibility in the distribution of migration.
