Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The minister spokesperson for the Government of Spain, Isabel Rodríguez, affirmed this Thursday that the Canarian president Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE) has managed in this legislature to position the islands and show their “strengths” and it “deserves” to obtain a majority in the regional Parliament on May 28.
Rodríguez has taken part in the “Political Dialogues” organized by the newspaper Tiempo de Canarias together with the socialist candidate for the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council, whom he has also supported as a future mayoress, in a forum where he has highlighted that the Canary Islands have been on the agenda of Spain in these last five years of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
And this, he said, is demonstrated in the aid he has received to overcome the crisis caused by the pandemic, as well as in the support given to La Palma due to the eruption of the volcano, an island that had the presence of the president from day one Pedro Sánchez and to which the Government has allocated more than 500 million to the recovery of the island, in which it continues to work.
The management to deal with this drama has been a “successful and impeccable”, said Rodríguez, who has valued the collaboration of all the administrations to deal with this emergency.
Rodríguez has also emphasized that the Sánchez Government “has respected” the Canary Islands Economic and Fiscal Regime, which has allowed the islands to receive more than 2,500 million euros per year in the last three State budgets, 2,800 million in the of 2022.
According to the minister spokesperson, Ángel Víctor Torres has known how to take advantage of the opportunity that the National Government was from his own party and “has asserted himself calmly and with a stable relationship” with all the members of his cabinet, which has made it possible to “position the Canary Islands as an element of strength”.
The former Minister of Health and candidate for mayor has elaborated on the sensitivity that her party has shown towards the Canary Islands when she has governed Spain and has also insisted on how the administration’s response time has been reduced not only to the emergency in La Palma, but to deal with the bankruptcy of the tour operator Thomas Cook, the consequences of the war in Ukraine and overcoming the crisis.
Rodríguez has defended the work of the Government headed by Sánchez and the response given by the public administration, which was “dismantled” in the previous economic crisis and “now it is beginning to recover.”
“It cannot be denied that the PSOE has shown its face” and it has done so where it has governed and has shown that despite the difficulties that Spain has had to overcome “is better off”, he has defended.
The average salary has increased by 345 euros, pensions have risen 200 euros since 2018, it has managed to attract “a lot of foreign investment” and the country has developed, highlighted Rodríguez, who also alluded to the EPA data known this Thursday that the number of people employed in Spain is estimated at 20.5 million, and especially more women incorporated into the labor market.
“There is still inequality and problems” but it has improved, said the minister spokesperson, who has considered important the next local and regional elections in which she believes it is necessary to avoid coalitions such as the one in Castilla y León, where the PP governs with the support of of Vox, because the extreme right “does not believe in the state of autonomies” and is “harmful to democracy.”
He has maintained that the PSOE has teams, projects and resources and leadership, and that is perceived, as is the case of the candidacy headed by Carolina Darias, who has predicted that it will obtain a good result, like Ángel Víctor Torres, and Augusto Hidalgo in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. EFE
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