Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The PSOE of the Canary Islands has appointed this Monday Sebastián Franquis as the parliamentary spokesman for this legislature and has agreed that Gustavo Matos and Patricia Hernández be the candidates for the Regional Chamber Board, in the two positions that correspond to the socialists.
The current president of Parliament, Gustavo Matos will be, based on parliamentary balances, the next second vice president while Patricia Hernández will once again be secretary, a position she held from July 2018 until the end of the legislature in 2019.
As for the leadership of the parliamentary group, which will be chaired by Torres himself, Franquis is accompanied as deputy spokespersons by the Secretary for Regional Organization and deputy for Tenerife, Nira Fierro, and the deputy for Fuerteventura, Rosa Bella Cabrera.
Completing the group’s scheme are Palmer deputy Manuel Abrante as treasurer and regional constituency deputy Alicia Pérez as secretary.
In statements to journalists after a meeting with the Executive of the Canary Islands PSOE, the acting Secretary General and President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has promised a “rigorous, strict, serious and coherent” opposition that defends the general interest.
In this sense, he has assured that he will support all those initiatives that “are good for the Canary Islands”.
“We will demand that there be a government in the Canary Islands that is clear about what to do and that it delivers a better Canary Islands than the one it receives in 2023, which is what the PSOE did, improving employment, exports, investment or education indicators”, Ángel stressed. Victor Torres.
The still president of the autonomous community has said that he “hopes” that the new Government will deliver these good data in 2027, “although what happens on a day-to-day basis is something else.”
“We are going to be very on top of them and that is the reason why I have decided together with my colleagues to stay in the Canary Islands Parliament exclusively,” he insisted.
ELECTION REFORM
Asked about his intention to reopen the debate on the electoral law and if he regrets not having been more ambitious during the 2018 reform, Torres recalled that some of the postulates raised by his party were not accepted by the Canary Coalition or the Association Socialist Gomera and that, for this reason, they had to reach a “minimum agreement”.
“But without renouncing the proposal that we have historically defended, but a clear, calm and calm reflection must be raised on, for example, the levels of abstention”, has deepened the secretary of the Canarian Socialists.
In his opinion, “it cannot be that 50% of the canaries stay at home”.
In addition, he recalled that in these elections it was the second time that two ballot boxes have been voted, with a ballot that weighs 12% of the total number of seats to be chosen.
“On that list are those who seek to be president and all the islands vote. That ballot weighs 12% and the rest is made up of islands. We believe that this is not a logical balance of what the canaries have stated”, declared Torres, who believes that this may be one of the reasons why people stop going to vote, because in the composition of the Government “there is no the expressed will is reflected”.
In any case, Ángel Víctor Torres has said that this must be done together with the rest of the political forces and has recognized that although the development of the electoral law had to be undertaken in this legislature, “the pandemic prevented it”, he concluded. EFE