Ángel Víctor Torres announced in the middle of the electoral debate the decision of the 27 member states of the European Council to exempt the archipelago from this measure.
The news broke in the middle of the electoral debate, when Ángel Víctor Torres surprised the spectators and the rest of the candidates by announcing that the European Council, in its most recent meeting, had agreed to exclude the Canary Islands from the kerosene tax, also known as the green tax. .
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The kerosene tax or green tax is a tax on the fuel used by airplanes and maritime transport, a measure that seeks sustainability but would also directly affect the outermost regions such as the Canary Islands, both for its internal and external connections and for the main economic engine of the islands: tourism.
This has been the main struggle of Ángel Víctor Torres and his team during the last months of this legislature, a tug of war with the European institutions to take into account the geographical location of the Canary Islands.
The measure, had it been implemented in the archipelago, would have led to higher airfares. According to a study by the auditing firm Deloitte entitled "Flying Towards a Sustainable Future," applying the measure in the Canary Islands would have resulted in a loss of nearly one million tourists and more than 40.000 jobs in 2023.
The Canary Islands thus get rid of one of the main headaches for their leaders in recent months. However, the need to redirect the tourism industry towards green and sustainable energies is increasingly urgent, something that is already being worked on so that the archipelago becomes a benchmark on the path towards green hydrogen.
