The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, hopes that the Government of the Canary Islands and the Government of Spain will reach some agreements on Coastal matters, but sees it as "complicated" to reach them in the transitional regime provisions.
The minister responded to the media after a visit to the Casa de Galicia in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria that there are several requests from different autonomous communities to hold bilateral meetings on Coastal matters and boasted about the 15 agreements that the Government and the regions have reached since he assumed the portfolio in November.
In the case of the Canary Islands, he has acknowledged that there is an "absolutely conflicting position" between the autonomous and state governments, specifically the Ministry for Ecological Transition, which is competent in the matter, and hopes that an agreement can be reached between both parties "on some issues that have not been possible until now".
The Government of the Canary Islands requested in December the convocation of the bilateral commission with the State to 'renegotiate' the Coastal transfers that the previous Executive achieved and that the current Government considers "partial" and under "State tutelage".
Torres has indicated that "the best possible transfer" of powers in Coastal matters was made, and that it was the "best document that can be had", recalling that he himself was president of the Canary Islands when said transfer was executed.
"And if it is criticized now, you can also renounce those powers, start again, but I think that a great job was done after three years of negotiation and everything can be improved, undoubtedly, and we will sit down with the Government of the Canary Islands, but in the specific matter of the transitional regime provisions I see it complicated that an agreement can be reached," he explained.
Despite this, he has expressed his desire to mediate, as Minister of Territorial Policy, in the conflict to avoid having to go to the Constitutional Court.
Although he has insisted that the "will" to reach that agreement does not depend on his Ministry, but on the autonomous communities and the state department that has the powers in this matter, in this case Ecological Transition.