SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the PSOE Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has demanded the vice president of the regional government and head of the Popular Party in the islands, Manuel Domínguez, to “strongly” reject the PP’s attacks on the referral of migrants to the Peninsula, to At the same time, he has called it “unpresentable” that leaders like Isabel Díaz Ayuso compare migrants “with burdens” and that there are mayors or councilors of the party who say that “they are going to carry diseases.”
Ángel Víctor Torres considers that these statements require that Manolo Domínguez distance himself from them “today, now” and reject them “strongly” because with “his silence he will be complicit.” “Does Manolo Domínguez agree that immigrants stay in the Canary Islands or does he support the Government of Spain so that they are transferred to the rest of the autonomous communities even if it bothers his colleagues in the Popular Party?” Torres asked the leader of the popular Canary Islands.
The former president of the Canary Islands also wanted to remember that it was his Government who, at the Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence, closed a biannual plan that allowed the reception of more than 700 unaccompanied minors arriving in the Canary Islands from other autonomous communities, and influenced that it was the Pact of the Flowers that achieved, for the first time, that they take charge of the guard, custody and guardianship of the minors, accompanied by all economic and financial records.
For this reason, he questioned the president and vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo and Manolo Domínguez, why they did not take advantage of the second meeting of the Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence to increase this figure. “There were the eleven communities governed by the Popular Party, so why did they not add another 300 to the more than 300 minors that we had closed with Minister Ione Belarra?” He asked himself.
In this regard, Ángel Víctor Torres recalled that as mayor of Arucas he welcomed migrant minors in his municipality when asked by the then president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Adán Martín, and made it clear that he will not make political use of immigration, just as he will not allow others to do so. “Therefore, Manolo Domínguez is taking a long time to reject the statements of his party colleagues and his lack of solidarity,” he added.
The socialist leader emphasized that if Manolo Domínguez does not make statements today it is because he “shares the statements of the Popular Party, which does not want the immigrants who arrive in the Canary Islands in their autonomous communities. Or he is clear and forceful and supports to the Government of the Canary Islands and the Government of Spain or will be complicit in submissive surrender to their political organization”.
Finally, he reminded Domínguez that he is the vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands and not just the leader of the Popular Party on the islands. “Therefore, he is in an administration and in an institution that forces him to demonstrate. Either he agrees or disagrees, but if he remains silent, his silence will make him an accomplice.”
