Torres: "The Canary Islands are not going to fire any of the 10,000 teachers and health workers in the archipelago"

Torres: "The Canary Islands are not going to fire any of the 10,000 teachers and health workers in the archipelago"

Escrivá and Torres in the CANARIAS7. / Arcadio Suarez

The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, assures that the community budgets will include incentives, deductions and support for medium and low incomes

Silvia Fernandez

The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced yesterday that the Canary Islands «
not going to fire anyone" of the 10,000 teachers and health workers that the archipelago has after the pandemic has been overcome.

During his speech at the conference organized by the Association for the Progress of Management (APD) at the headquarters of CANARIAS7 and with the presence of the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, the president pointed out that the next
autonomous community budgets "They will be consistent" with the ideology of the parties that make up the Government (PSOE, UP, NC and ASG) and will be "progressive policies", with investment in public education and health.

“We have problems in education and health because we have few teachers and we are eight islands. This implies a structural expense but we have to do it", said Torres, who assured that in 2023
budgets will have "more resources than ever."

President Torres announced that the budgets of the Canary Islands will be
deductions, incentives, direct aid and support for the working middle class and low income. «If we see the rates with respect to the different sections in the Canary Islands, the one who has the most can pay between 2 and 4 points more than in the state section. The regional section promotes the lowest incomes and is much more demanding with the high ones, but there will be a package of measures that will complement those of the central government, "he said.

On the other hand, Torres made himself available to the businessmen to negotiate with the businessmen in order to avoid situations of
clash between public and private companies. As he pointed out, there have been occasions in which there have been frictions with companies when administrations resort to organizations such as Gesplan or Tragsa to carry out works that compete with the private sector. "We are willing to walk hand in hand," she said. He also supported public-private collaboration.