Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Central Electoral Board (JEC) recognizes that the Canarian Nationalist Party (PNC) obtained a deputy in 2019 in the Parliament of the Canary Islands as part of the alliance of political forces headed by CC, with the rights that this entails for their candidates in the May 28 elections.
The JEC has resolved in this way the appeal that the Canary Islands Coalition had filed against the decision of the Electoral Board of the Canary Islands to recognize the PNC a position in the Radio and Television Control Commission during these elections, because it understood that it did not correspond to it, since who has broken the agreements that united both parties until just a few months ago and now presents himself alone.
“Having abandoned that federation, the Canarian Nationalist Party can stand in the elections but taking into account that it did not have representation in the last equivalent elections,” argued the lawyers of the party led by Fernando Clavijo.
However, the Central Electoral Board coincides with that of the Canary Islands: not only does the PNC acronym expressly appear in the name of the coalition registered for the 2019 elections, CC-PNC, but also its President, Juan Manuel García Ramos, was elected deputy as the fifth member of the nationalist candidacy for the Tenerife constituency.
The JEC examines these facts in light of the 2022 Law that regulates the Elections to the Parliament of the Canary Islands, according to which “only those parties, federations, coalitions or groups that, in addition to contesting the elections, obtained representation in the Parliament of The Canary Islands in the last elections have the right to be part of that Commission” (the Radio and Television Control Commission).
In his opinion, “the interpretation made by the Electoral Board of the Canary Islands is reasonable and, in accordance with the principle of interpretation of the legal system in the most favorable sense to the exercise of fundamental rights, as is also invoked in the report (of the Canary Islands Board ), reason for which the appeal must be dismissed and the agreement of the Electoral Board of the Canary Islands confirmed.
In the same meeting in which it made that decision, the JEC has examined two other appeals against the distribution of posts in the Radio and Television Control Commission in the elections to the Parliament of the Canary Islands, one from Vox and the other from Drago, formations that were left out of that body and requested to be represented.
Santiago Abascal’s party maintained that, even if it did not win a seat in the 2019 Canarian Parliament elections, Vox received 12.5% of the votes in the general elections that same year and became the third national political force.
For its part, the new formation led by Alberto Rodríguez claimed for Drago Verdes Canarias the rights that he believed corresponded to Equo, which in 2019 formed part of a coalition that did obtain deputies in the autonomous Parliament: Sí Podemos Canarias.
The JEC rejected the two challenges: that of Vox, because that party did not get deputies in the Parliament of the Canary Islands in 2019, and that of Drago, because there is no record that any of the deputies of Sí Podemos Canarias in the legislature that has just ended outside member of Equo, unlike the situation posed by the PNC. EFE