The Electoral Board of the Canary Islands (JEC) has dismissed the complaint filed by Coalición Canaria against the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Councilor of Public Administrations, Justice and Security, Julio Pérez, for violation of the Electoral Law.
According to the writing that La Voz has had access to, Coalición denounced the regional president and the Executive spokesperson on April 20 for the publication of some tweets announcing the creation of social housing in Lanzarote after 27 years without new works.
A day later, Ángel Víctor Torres presented allegations against the complaint and requested its dismissal. In addition, the socialist withdrew from his personal profile, from the institutional one and from the profile of the Councilor of Public Administrations.
"The published messages that are the subject of the complaint have already been eliminated, voluntarily and cautiously," the Electoral Board began in its resolution. Despite this, it made an exhaustive analysis of the tweets published by the Canarian president. In them, Torres would have echoed the construction of 134 social houses in Maneje.
The tweets published on his personal account were understood by the Electoral Board as "freedom of expression", considering that there were no links to the government website, nor that the president's personal profile was financed with public money.
Regarding the publication of the information through the official social networks of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, it is framed within the institutional communication "of objective data deductible" after an agreement of the Governing Council.
Despite dismissing the complaint, the Canary Islands Electoral Board stressed that public authorities must agree to "extreme their duty of diligence within the framework of their institutional interventions, avoiding issuing statements that could reflect electoral connotations, as they may compromise their constitutional duty of neutrality."