The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, said today that the judicial decisions against measures adopted by the Canary Islands Government at this time of the pandemic, are not a blow to its Executive, but "a blow to the fight against the pandemic and the long term recovery of the economy."
"The ruling of the TSJC is a blow to the fight against the pandemic, it is not a blow to the Government," Torres said in statements prior to the plenary session of the conference of presidents, adding that "the measures are the same that they have been proposing since acting against the coronavirus pandemic and that they have been recognized as effective by society and by political groups of the Parliament of the Canary Islands.”
"I do not understand and do not agree with why we are told no to a curfew when there are ones in Catalonia, Cantabria, Valencia or Navarra, with hundreds of municipalities with lower incidences than some in the Canary Islands", he asserted.
He explained that is why he defended a "unification of criteria" and considered "that it is not a political issue, but a judicial one." For Torres, the Canary Islands “have been harmed” and he is happy for the regions that have been able to apply restrictions such as the curfew: “I am happy for them, not for the ruling of the TSJC”.
CANARIES ARE ANALYZING WHAT APPEAL TO GIVE TO THE LATEST RULINGS:
Torres recalled that they are "analyzing the latest rulings" and maintained that they will make "decisions they deem appropriate”, and in the field of health measures, those which have been successful so far.
"If we want to bend the curve we must preserve some of these measures, we have a lot at stake in the economy of the Canary Islands. In Tenerife, the occupancy of ICUs due to Covid is over 25%, when at the height of the pandemic last year we didn’t exceed 18%. We do not want to have a collapse and we want to have an open economy as much as possible, but with the fewest possible infections," he said.
