The mayor of Arrecife and island president of the PP, Ástrid Pérez, has shown her rejection of the decision of the Government of the Canary Islands to appeal to the Supreme Court the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands annulling two of the regulations that the regional Executive intended to maintain after the end of the state of alarm.
For Pérez, "it makes no sense for the Government of the Canary Islands to try to impose a curfew without having the legal coverage of the State of alarm, which ended this past weekend." "The Government can, as ratified by the TSJC order, apply measures of a sanitary nature and control of capacity and schedules in certain establishments, but it must desist from applying the curfew," demands the island president of the PP, who has requested that Pedro Sánchez convene the sectoral meeting of regional presidents to agree on measures before the abolition of the State of Alarm.
The statement from the president of the PP in Lanzarote coincides with another sent by the spokesperson for the Popular Parliamentary Group and president of the Popular Party in the Islands, Australia Navarro, who has stated that she shares the TSJC's criteria and considers it “unnecessary and disproportionate” to prolong the curfew.
“You cannot lock two million Canarians in their homes every night because a few do not comply with the rules. What the Government of the Canary Islands has to do is demand the assistance of the State Security Forces and Corps to enforce the law,” said Australia Navarro.
"From the state of alarm to the state of confusion"
“The Popular Party of the Canary Islands does not support the maintenance of a measure as drastic as the curfew, which President Torres intends to maintain against the criteria of the Superior Court of Justice, because as the magistrates argue, there are sufficient administrative and legal tools to prevent the irresponsible behavior of those who meet in public without respecting health measures,” said the leader of the Canarian Popular Party.
After meeting this morning with the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, Australia Navarro assured that “we have gone from the state of alarm to the state of confusion and chaos, and the person directly responsible is Pedro Sánchez, for refusing to agree with the Popular Party and the autonomous communities on a plan B”.
The Popular Party insists that the lifting of the state of alarm "should have been carried out with a legislative change, which would allow the autonomous administrations to continue taking health measures to fight against the pandemic in a coordinated manner, with legal certainty and without putting the fundamental rights of citizens at risk."
In addition, Navarro has questioned that the meeting to which the opposition spokespersons have been summoned this Monday by President Torres "is late and bad". "Instead of agreeing on the measures beforehand, the PSOE and its partners launched themselves to implement them without entrusting themselves to anyone, and when the TSJ shoots them down, they call the opposition to try to whitewash this judicial setback,” she reproached.
Finally, Navarro recalled that the virus continues to be transmitted and that the risk continues, and she criticized the uncivil behaviors that endanger public health. “The citizens who have taken to the streets this weekend skipping the most basic health measures are irresponsible, but even more irresponsible is Pedro Sánchez for generating this chaos and confusion,” said Navarro, for whom the President of the Government “should show his face, instead of hiding in La Moncloa, he should sit down with the opposition and negotiate the legal Plan B that we have presented again in the Cortes Generales, because it is the only way to end this legal chaos and not transfer more confusion to the citizens”