SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has acknowledged this Tuesday in the plenary session of the Canary Islands Parliament that the islands have suffered a “bad month” in terms of inflation, but has denied the ability of the PP to give lessons on how keep it low.
Torres asked that the interannual Consumer Price Index (CPI) be also valued, which with an increase of 4.6 percent is “better” than many other regions of the country despite its remoteness and insularity.
Thus, he said that the 2022 budget contemplates measures to alleviate the effects of these increases and said he expects the support of the PP to move it forward.
The spokeswoman for the popular, María Australia Navarro, described the price increase as “runaway” and said that inflation is the
“tax of the poor”.
Thus, he said that the rise in electricity or gasoline has a strong impact on families and companies in the Canary Islands, which are “poorer every day.” “We have a lot of difficulties getting to the end of the month,” he said.
Navarro accused Torres of using “a lot of verbiage” while he is “with his arms crossed” in the face of the “steepest rise in prices since 2008”, when, he recalled, the Socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ruled.
He also snapped at him for his “lack of empathy” one that “instead of blood has horchata” and ordered him to “lower taxes to compensate.”
The president, on the other hand, rejected that from popular recipes nothing can be made clear to keep prices stable and blamed you for the electricity tariff system or the taxes on the generation of solar energy.
In addition, he culminated by citing the increase in the CPI in communities where the PP governs, such as Castilla y León, with a growth of 6.2 percent, or Madrid, with an increase of 5.3 percent, both higher to the canary data.
