The PSOE of the Canary Islands has also requested the resignation of the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism in functions of the Government of Spain, José Manuel Soria, after learning this Monday that his name appears in the so-called 'Panama Papers' as administrator of an 'offshore' company in the Bahamas, "through which he would avoid paying taxes" in the 90s. "Soria has not brought anything good to the Canary Islands, but quite the opposite: he has tarnished its name wherever he has gone, especially in these four years as minister", says the regional secretary of Organization of the party, Julio Cruz. The party's spokesman in Congress and Pedro Sánchez himself have also requested Soria's resignation.
He also recalls that the acting minister himself said last week that whoever appeared in the documentation "would have to come out and explain it". "But he has preferred to wait for it to be made public by other means while and has remained silent, perhaps with the confidence that nothing would happen, thus demonstrating his lack of ethics and morals", add the socialists.
Julio Cruz regrets that the Canarian minister "has not given a single joy to the archipelago in these more than four years, and when his name has been linked to that of the Canary Islands, we have started to tremble because we have always known that it would not be for anything good". "Strange promotion campaign that the Minister of Tourism has made of his land, because now, in addition to the Canarian minister who says yes to oil, he is also the Canarian minister with companies in Panama", adds the Secretary of Organization of the socialists.
Cruz wonders if Mariano Rajoy will now say to Soria "the same thing that he once said to Bárcenas, that of 'ésé strong'" and emphasizes that "the Popular Party is already taking too long to step aside so that regeneration in Spain can be a reality".
Likewise, he indicates that the Socialist Parliamentary Group has announced that it will register this Monday the request for the creation of a commission of investigation in the Congress of Deputies on the documentation that is being known and also on the tax amnesty of the PP Government, as the PSOE spokesman in Congress, Antonio Hernando, had already announced.
Finally, the PSOE senator for the Autonomous Community also recalls that the Popular Parliamentary Group of the Canary Islands plans to ask the regional Government this Tuesday, in plenary session, if it has "the will to join measures of political and institutional regeneration in the Canary Islands within the scope of its regulatory framework". Cruz believes that "it would not hurt if the Canarian 'populars' directed this same question to Minister Soria and the acting Government of Mariano Rajoy".