Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (EFE).- The general secretary of the Canarian PSOE, Ángel Víctor Torres, said on Tuesday that “borders, records and the impossible are there to be broken” when referring to the possibility of his party achieving a absolute majority this 28M in the islands.
Before participating, together with socialist institutional representatives, in the traditional floral offering to the party’s founder, Pablo Iglesias, on the occasion of his 144th anniversary, the also candidate for re-election as president of the Canary Islands Government has alluded to the present pre-election situation, which , as he has said, his formation faces the purpose of once again being the first force of the islands, as he achieved in 2019 by obtaining 25 deputies, on this occasion, “with better results”, without ruling out an absolute majority.
Regarding this last scenario, Torres has admitted that “it has never been achieved” in the Canary Islands, although he has estimated that “borders, records and the impossible are there to be broken.”
“What we have to do is get the greatest citizen support, so that they know what we have done in this time and what is at risk if we do not continue in governments who defend the social majority. They have us by their side, like one more neighbor or a canary who tries to improve the lives of their people and, therefore, we aspire to the maximum ”, she asserted.
When asked about the distances that Podemos marks these days with the PSOE, both nationally and regionally, the leader of the Canarian socialists has opined that “what all the political forces have to do now is try to get the best possible result and then the days and weeks will come when everyone will sit down”, including his party, “to share with those who share his ideological program, his government action and his clear proposal that whoever has more contributes to those who need it most ”.
To this socialist objective he has added those of “there being social justice in the Canary Islands and a balance between the islands, that we walk, as we are doing, with the Minimum Vital Income and a more dignified Minimum Interprofessional Wage, to have a much fairer society that, in addition, is committed to environmental, social and economic sustainability”.
Torres commemorated this Tuesday the 144th anniversary of the PSOE “renewing his conviction that we must move forward to have a better Canary Islands, where there are more jobs, the wage gap between men and women is eliminated, we have more scholarship policies and more opportunities for youth and where we walk towards a socioeconomic balance”.
In his opinion, all this “has been fulfilled in these years in the administrations where the socialists are, such as the Government of Spain, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and also in the Government of the Canary Islands” . EFE