The president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, received the New Year in Gran Canaria and did it after arriving at the archipelago in Ryanair regular flight, as OK Diario has published, among other media.The national press has highlighted this austerity, describing his attitude as “very different from that of the head of the Government of the Nation, Pedro Sánchez, who is in Lanzarote after landing with the Falcon, the presidential aircraft belonging to the Force. Spanish air and paid with money from all taxpayers.
OKDIARIO published last Saturday exclusively the image of Sanchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, their two daughters and their little dog Turca, getting off the official plane at the Lanzarote airport. That same day Moncloa reported that the president had moved “with his family” to this island, where “spend a few days of vacation in the official residence of La Mareta.”
A day before Sánchez, on December 28, the president of Ireland also flew to the Canary Islands and did so accompanied by his wife, Sabina Coyne, on a regular Ryanair flight, according to The Irish Sun. This newspaper reports that Higgins was seen inside the plane by other compatriots, who were surprised to see him aboard this low-cost airline.
Likewise, it states that the president instead of using the Learjet 45 of the Irish Air Corps, as he “often does on official matters”, traveled on an “economic airline, sitting next to other tourists”. According to ‘The Irish Sun’, a passenger told this newspaper that “Sabina (for Higgins’ wife) was also there. The last one arrived and then the first one came on arrival. A car was waiting for him on the track. ”
This fact, that is to say, that the security of the Irish president and his wife were guaranteed at all times dismantles the main argument of the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Moncloa maintains that the private trips of the chief executive must make them in the Falcon of the Air Force for security reasons. This happened, for example, with the wedding of his brother-in-law in La Rioja last July, to which he also flew on a private flight charged to the public treasury.
On the other hand, from the tourism sector they are very satisfied with the presence of the President of the Government of Spain in Lanzarote. They do not go into assessing internal issues of the trip, but believe that aspects of the trip that are considered secondary are being magnified.
