The Minister of Territorial Policy and General Secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, this Saturday called for “preserving rights” by supporting the Partido Socialista in the electoral appointment of next 29N. In relation to the current migration crisis facing the Canary Islands, he stressed that, if it is intended to guarantee the transfer and relocation to the Peninsula of the unaccompanied migrant minors who are in the islands, “there is only one option: vote for the Partido Socialista”.
Torres warned that “we are facing, I have said on many occasions, that for the first time, and after the restoration of democracy, there could be an ultraright party in the Government of Spain. We have to be absolutely clear”. These statements were made to the media during an act of the PSOE in Lanzarote, where he insisted on the importance of concentrating the vote on the socialist candidacy in the next election to the polls.
The socialist leader cited as an example that, in the Congress, through the Standing Committee, this week the decree ‘Maricarmen’ has been ratified, which “prevents evictions and which also controls and contains the price of rents”. He also highlighted the push for housing construction that, as he said, takes place when “there is a socialist government”. In this line, he stressed: “If we want there to be housing, we have to vote for the PSOE, and we have to govern in our country”.
The General Secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands also emphasized the need to ensure the continuity of the 1.300 million annual amount derived from the agreement on the new proposal for regional financing for the Canary Islands approved in the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF), “closed between the central Government and the regional one”, and he stressed that “it will only be saved if the Partido Socialista wins and the Partido Socialista governs”.
On migration matters, he reiterated that “also, if we want the unaccompanied minors who arrive in Lanzarote to continue their return or to be able to move toward relocation across the whole country, in the Peninsula, there is only one option: vote for the Partido Socialista and for the Partido Socialista to govern. And if we want to bet on public healthcare, public education, dependency, there is only one option, and that is to vote for the Partido Socialista”.
Torres has warned that, if the "far right comes to Government, it will push back rights" both of the people of the Canary Islands and of the whole of the citizens in Spain. He has finished his intervention by assuring: "We are going to preserve rights and we are going to reduce the differences that the polls say exist with the right and the far right. Every day we reduce more differences, every day it is more evident that we will preserve those rights. We will win again and we will return to govern."