Ángel Víctor Torres dismisses the Minister of Health of the Canary Islands

The final trigger was Teresa Cruz's refusal to accept that the Health Emergency Management Committee take over the coronavirus crisis.

March 25 2020 (22:14 WET)
Ángel Víctor Torres dismisses the Minister of Health of the Canary Islands
Ángel Víctor Torres dismisses the Minister of Health of the Canary Islands

The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has dismissed the Minister of Health and fellow Socialist Party member, Teresa Cruz Oval. The final trigger was the minister's refusal to accept that the Health Emergency Management Committee, created and chaired by Torres himself, take over the coronavirus crisis, following the numerous complaints received about the minister's actions from health professionals, unions, and even parties that support the flower pact, such as Nueva Canarias and the Agrupación Socialista Gomera.

The straw that broke the camel's back in keeping her in office, more than anything to avoid tensions in the Government at such a delicate moment as the resolution of this emergency and due to pressure from the PSOE of Tenerife - mainly from the sector of Patricia Hernández who wanted to keep her in office - has been the public disapproval of the minister of the functions of this committee that her own president is leading.

Teresa Cruz has described it as a mere advisory body, when the president has publicly said that this committee will manage the crisis from its creation last Friday and that it will be coordinated by the current general technical secretary of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Conrado Domínguez, former director of the Canarian Health Service. In this regard, Cruz went so far as to say that Domínguez would only be an advisor and that she would continue to manage the area, thus ignoring the president's own order.

Faced with this, Torres, who refused to dismiss the minister despite being asked to do so on other occasions, due to her management of personnel competitions, has decided to remove her from office on the afternoon of this Wednesday, so that the committee can work without interference.

 

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