The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has stated that his Executive will approve in the coming weeks a legislative norm that seeks to have legal coverage with different anti-covid measures in case its application is necessary.
"The regional government is working on a norm that we will take to the Governing Council. We are polishing the text, clearing up some doubts and doing it together with the Ministry of Health, because we have to question various aspects," he said on Sunday in statements to the media.
In this sense, he placed special emphasis on the fact that what is sought is that whenever it is necessary to make decisions on restrictions and of another nature, the Executive has legal coverage "and is not at the mercy of judicial failures so that we have these norms once there is no state of alarm."
Torres explained that these are measures and norms that have worked during the previous months. "We believe that it is necessary to be able to bring all that together in a legislative norm," he specified.
Regarding the content of the same, the president commented that these are measures that have been adopted on other occasions and that with the end of the state of alarm there are difficulties to be able to adopt them. "There cannot be 17 different criteria according to the TSJ of one autonomous community or another. That is not good and I believe that it is not a political issue, but rather a judicial one," he defended.
However, he was convinced that with the already close objective of 70% of the population over twelve years of age vaccinated, mechanisms will be arbitrated so that there is certification inside the premises and other mandatory rules, all this "so that health security is a value, which it will be even for tourism."
