Santa Cruz De Tenerife (EFE).- The NC-BC candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands, Román Rodríguez, is willing to negotiate progressive majorities after the regional elections because “people do not want to return to the past” and he will put the right in the opposition, where CC will continue because “if it doesn’t wake up, it will go to the third” political force of the archipelago.
Román Rodríguez has pronounced himself in this way in statements to the media after registering, before the Electoral Board of the Canary Islands, the regional list with which Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC) contests the regional elections on the 28th of May.
In this regard, Román Rodríguez recalled that “it took decades to conquer” the autonomous constituency because “there was a lot of resistance” and yet, he continued, it is the one that expresses well “what we are: eight inhabited islands but one people, one country, one common project”.
For this reason, NC-BC concurs with a programmatic proposal “of the country, of the future” since the citizens of the Canary Islands do not want to “go back to the past but to continue advancing”, so that the candidate for the regional Presidency has no doubt that on 28 May will revalidate popular support for progressive ideas.
It has been four difficult years in which the leadership, management and defense capacity of the Canary Islands has been demonstrated in Madrid and Brussels, in addition to contributing experience and capacity to respond “in the face of the imponderables that were imposed”, Rodríguez continued.
In NC “we have been absolutely loyal because we have put the general interest before any other consideration” and for this reason it now presents “a proposal that is not a program, but a country project for the Canary Islands to grow better”.
For this, it responds to the historical challenges and the new ones, among them, a second transformation of the health system to professionalize the management, continue advancing in public, universal and free education, promote the housing plan with at least 5,000 new buildings and incorporate another 40,000 family units to the Canary Islands citizenship income.
And in a special way, added Román Rodríguez, NC-BC presents a proposal to rethink the growth model because “this cannot grow to infinity”, and this means recovering the planning and guidelines “that, de facto, others repealed”.
There are islands that have not had an insular management plan for 32 years, and the future cannot be projected without knowing “what is going to happen in your territory”, explained Román Rodríguez, adding that containing the growth model does not mean economic decline but grow better.
Regarding the criticisms made by the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) of the management carried out by the current Canarian Executive, Román Rodríguez has said that there are parties that have lost centrality and CC “it is clear that it has lost it”, to consider that its leaders are “nervous and worried” because they have gone from first to second political force “and if they don’t wake up, they go to the third.”
This generates “instability, nerves and insecurities” because, in addition, the NC leader has no doubt that on May 28 the progressive parties will have a “clear” majority at the polls and the right-wing parties “in the that CC is here” they will continue in the opposition.
Likewise, he has indicated that although the NC is not going to attack anyone, it is not going to accept foolishness either and there is an “indisputable” fact, such as the fact that during the period 2020-2023 more than 40,000 million euros have been put at the service of the health, education, housing and roads. EFE