The spokesperson and Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Security of the Government of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, defended this Thursday the 75 percent bonus for resident transport, although "anomalies that may have occurred in prices or in the use of this bonus" should be "corrected".
In this way, Pérez referred in the press conference after the Governing Council to the conclusions of the study 'Transport infrastructures' that has been presented this Thursday by the Independent Authority of Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) and in which it was stated that the prices of tickets between the Canary Islands and the Peninsula had increased by 12 percent with the entry into force of said bonus, while proposing to limit the subsidy based on the income of travelers or establishing a maximum bonus price.
The spokesperson for the Canarian Government has stated that they do not yet have an official communication, although he has stressed that the position of the regional Executive in this regard "is intangible" in relation to this bonus.
However, he has pointed out that "maybe we should think" about linking some part of the subsidy to certain income levels, a question that he recalled has already been raised on other occasions. "Does it make sense to finance both the first class ticket and the tourist ticket? It is a question that is reasonable to ask," he posed.
In relation to the conclusions of the AIRef, Julio Pérez considered it "evident" that "whoever travels more, has more money and that, therefore, those who travel more, who are those who have more money, have a greater participation in the subsidy." In fact, he pointed out that for that conclusion "it is not necessary to do a study."
Finally, he highlighted as "positive" the information that it collects that prices in the inter-island market "has been maintained, this is important."
