Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The former secretary of Organization of Podemos Alberto Rodríguez will stand in the regional elections on May 28 as a candidate for president of the Canary Islands at the head of the coalition formed by Drago, Equo and Los Verdes, with lists to all the islands, except La Gomera.
“The current Pact of Flowers (the agreement between PSOE, NC, Podemos and Agrupación Socialista Gomera that supports the Government of the Canary Islands) has served not only to whiten the caciquismo of La Gomera, but also to export it to the rest of the archipelago and to do more It is difficult for the people who are there, suffering from it, to fight it”, said Alberto Rodríguez, in his formal presentation as a candidate for president, at the head of the regional list of Drago Verdes Canarias.
This new formation, which defines itself as “of Canarian obedience”, environmentalist, feminist and defender of public services, will not register any candidacy for the Parliament for La Gomera, for the island’s Cabildo or for its six town halls, as a gesture of solidarity with “the titanic struggle that the members of the Iniciativa por La Gomera party are waging in a caciquil context, against what, in their opinion, the president of the Cabildo and ASG leader, Casimiro Curbelo, represents.
Alberto Rodríguez has announced his candidacy in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in front of the Atis Tirma monument (the symbol of the last aboriginal resistance to the Castilian Conquest), flanked by members of his candidacy for Parliament from Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
Rodríguez has specified that he will compete on the “national or archipelagic” list, as his party prefers to refer to the regional list, because in Drago Verdes Canarias they defend that the candidate for president must be voted for in all the islands, although this may represent a greater risk than doing it for his native island Tenerife, where six more seats are elected (15, compared to nine).
The leader of Drago Verdes Canarias has been very critical of the Pacto de las Flores (PSOE, Podemos, NC and Agrupación Socialista Gomera), because he considers that those who “said they were coming to change everything” have offered “more of the same” and They do not have “the courage to raise their voices against corruption or to ask, for example, where the four million euros of the masks are.”
In his presentation, he was flanked by Yurena Ramírez, number 2 on the regional list, and the candidates for Gran Canaria, Pedro Pablo Medina; for Tenerife, Carmen Peña; for La Palma, Sara Hernández; for Fuerteventura, Aceysele Chacón; and for Lanzarote, Rafael Jiménez. In El Hierro, Drago Verdes Canarias is still working on the list.
The six candidates have exposed some of the proposals or approaches defended by the formation: they are opposed to the construction of Salto de Chira, they want a different model of green energy, they will defend that “not one meter more” of territory be occupied with the model current tourism, demand that citizens be heard in the reconstruction of La Palma and advocate a primary sector with fair prices for farmers and ranchers. EFE