Santa Cruz De Tenerife (EFE) forces that “try to give lessons” and in the face of alleged corruption “hide”.
Ángel Víctor Torres has spoken in this way in statements to journalists at the end of the extraordinary regional committee held this Saturday in which the PSOE of the Canary Islands has unanimously approved the electoral lists for the local, island and regional elections on May 28.
Torres had previously indicated before the committee that the party has witnessed “very hard, very difficult” weeks in the face of “abhorrent, abominable, reprehensible and absolutely repugnant human behavior that does not fit into the perception of the human being and does not fit, in any case, , in the PSOE”.
Faced with these facts, “we must apologize to the public” because it is about behaviors for which there is no room for more than the complaint and when it comes to the PSOE, it has continued, what must be done is to act “immediately, forcefully, breaking with what deviates from the ethical and moral code” of the organization.
Torres, who at no time has expressly alluded to the Mediator case, recalled that on February 14 there were arrests “and in 8 hours” the PSOE had suspended those investigated from militancy and removed them from the organization, an immediate action that responds “to what the citizens ask for: zero tolerance for those who become corrupt and stray from the laws.”
He has criticized that in the face of this forcefulness other political organizations “hide” or separate colleagues who denounce alleged cases of corruption “and that is the difference” with a PSOE that has warned that action will be taken “whoever falls and whoever it is” before those who deviate from the law.
Facing governments or parties “that do not tell the truth” and therefore do not deserve to be in the institutions, Torres continued, recalling the commemoration this Saturday of the attacks of March 11, the PSOE “will always tell the truth” because It is an “honest party, of serious, hard-working, humble and responsible people who show their faces.”
For this reason, the also president of the Canary Islands has been convinced that in the electoral campaign and after a four-year management, the citizens will know how to “separate” these “individual” behaviors because, he has said, in an “absolutely indisputable” way, today the Canary Islands are better off than in 2019 due “to the footprint of a progressive government with a preponderant and fundamental role of the PSOE.”
Ángel Víctor Torres also thanked “the generosity” of the party’s island leaderships and of the people who this year have given up their position in the candidacies, something that always generates “a great debate” and that nevertheless on this occasion has been agreed unanimously.
This demonstrates “the strength” of a united party that faces the electoral appointment as a “fundamental, structural and essential” force in Canary Islands politics because when the PSOE is in opposition it exercises it responsibly and when it is in the Government As in this legislature, Torres has continued, he has managed to “turn around” the situation of the archipelago.
According to the lists approved this Saturday, the general secretary and candidate for re-election as president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, will lead the candidacy for the regional constituency, followed by Yaiza López Landi, Jorge González and Alicia Pérez.
The regional list is completed by Rafael Nogales, Leticia Armas de Guzmán, Damián Pérez, Eva de Anta and José Matías Ayala.
For her part, the Secretary of Organization of the Canarian PSOE, Nira Fierro, will lead the Tenerife list accompanied by Gustavo Matos, Patricia Hernández, Manuel Fumero and Tamara Raya, while Sebastián Franquis will lead the Gran Canaria list ahead of Elena Máñez, Miguel Ángel Pérez del Pino, Nayra Alemán and Gustavo Santana.
Dolores Corujo, Marcos Hernandez and Lucía Olga Tejera will go for Lanzarote and Alicia Vanoostende, Manuel Abrante and Carmen Acosta will go for La Palma.
Manuel Ramón Plasencia will lead the candidacy for the regional Chamber for La Gomera and Manuel Hernández Cerezo, Rosa Bella Cabrera and Pedro Sosa for Fuerteventura. The El Hierro list will be headed by Lucía Fuentes Mesa.
The extraordinary regional committee of this Saturday has also approved the opinion of the commission of lists on the candidacies in the municipalities between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants.
All the candidacies will now be ratified by the Federal Commission of Lists and, later, by the federal executive committee, at its meeting on March 18 in Madrid. EFE