The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has assured that the judicial rulings against measures adopted by the Government of the Canary Islands at this time of the pandemic are not a setback for his Executive but "a setback for the fight against the pandemic."
"The ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) is a setback for the fight against the pandemic, it is not a setback for the Government," Torres asserted in statements prior to the plenary session of the conference of presidents.
The Canarian president defended that "the measures are the same" that they have been proposing since action was taken against the coronavirus pandemic and that they have been "recognized as effective by society and by the political groups" of the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
"I don't understand and I don't share how we are told no to the Canary Islands with the curfew, when there is one in Catalonia, Cantabria, Valencia or Navarra, with hundreds of municipalities with lower incidences than some in the Canary Islands," he asserted.
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 "has 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 TSJC ruling."
Analyzing the response to the latest orders
Torres recalled that they are still "analyzing the latest orders" known this Thursday and pointed out that they will take "the decisions" they deem appropriate, also in the field of health measures, which he considered "successful."
"If we want to bend the curve we must preserve some of those measures, we are risking a lot in the economy of the Canary Islands. In Tenerife, the occupation of ICUs by covid is 25 percent, when in the worst moments of last year we did not exceed 18 percent. We do not want to have a collapse and we want to have an economy open to the maximum possible, but with the fewest possible infections," he asserted.
Torres concluded by assuring that it has been "17 hard months," but insisted that the "measures have worked" and argued that if now some political parties "deviate from the coherence" maintained these months ago, they will be the ones who "will have to explain it."
