SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated this Wednesday, during the Debate on the status of nationality, that the so-called ‘Meditor case’ cannot be “a Roman circus” or a “media spectacle” in which people like Antonio Tacoronte, presumed mediator of the plot, can question the honor of public officials. “When there is an accusation, let it be proven,” he stressed.
“You cannot have a double standard and accuse others of issues that you have to make yourself look at. This is not a Roman circus in which anyone can turn the finger against any public representative,” said the president regarding to Antonio Tacoronte’s interventions in the media.
Ángel Víctor Torres strongly criticized that this individual is going to the media and that “without any evidence” he is “laminating the morale, honor, honesty and honesty” of other people, and he also regretted that there are those who are giving him ” pabulo” to all this. “Whoever fuels it, participates,” he added.
In the same way, he regretted that there are representatives of political parties who are saying in the media that with this plot “tremendous damage has been done to the public resources of the community”, when, as he recalled, a legal report from the legal services of the Government concludes that it cannot be a person in the case because, until now, no such damage has been detected.
“What is happening is shameful and embarrassing, it undermines the work that we public representatives do, it demands a high vision from everyone and it doesn’t matter if we have the elections in ninety days,” said the president, who warned that on many occasions “this is come back a boomerang”.
Ángel Víctor Torres acknowledged that on some occasion he had already had to go to the Prosecutor’s Office when he had evidence of some illegality and considered that this should always be the behavior of all people who are in the public sphere.
He also reiterated that in the ‘Mediator case’ all responsibilities that may exist must be assumed and the investigation must go to the end, but he wanted to make it clear that no member of the Government of the Canary Islands is being investigated for this alleged corruption plot.
