The president of the Canary Islands Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, has shown his support this Monday for arbitrating legislative modifications so that the autonomous communities can bring forward the curfew. Currently, that nocturnal restriction of circulation can begin at the latest at 10 p.m., which is when it starts in Lanzarote since last Friday, but Castilla y León has brought it forward without the approval of the central government. As a result of that disagreement - which has been appealed in the Courts - and the request of other communities, the Minister of Health has opened the door to negotiating a new schedule (currently regional governments can set the start of the curfew between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m.).
In statements to journalists after attending the start of the demolition works of the Las Chumberas urbanization, Torres commented that each autonomous community makes the decisions it believes are "best" to combat the pandemic, but made it clear that "they are taxed" in the state of alarm and Covid-19 "does not distinguish" between autonomous communities.
Torres has admitted that many decisions "are hard", such as the interior closure of bars or gyms and has defended that the Canary Islands, for example, "always advances", which has allowed, among other things, to have the best data at the national level.
The president has valued the "will" of each autonomous community to improve the response to the pandemic but believes that decisions about the state of alarm must be separated from the "political struggle", as they are not "capricious".
He also highlighted "social responsibility" in Tenerife and La Gomera in recent weeks, which has allowed to lower the alert level and believes that "the same will happen" in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, which have raised it.
Torres also believes that the evolution of the pandemic "is going to improve" in the coming weeks as Christmas has already passed and normality has been restored in schools and the workplace. "Let's respect the rules, and in the case of the islands that have risen in level, if things are done well, in 14 days they will no longer be so," he stressed.
