Santa Cruz De Tenerife (EFE).- The ASG leader, Casimiro Curbelo, stated on Tuesday that parliamentary logic suggests that the force that won the most seats in the regional elections, the PSOE, should begin negotiations to form a government ” but that does not mean in any way that they will bear fruit”.
In statements to journalists after the inauguration of the expansion of the headquarters of the Canary Islands Parliament, the leader of Agrupación Socialista Gomera (ASG) stressed that, after the elections on May 28, the “pact of flowers” had “a a certain shipwreck in one part” and now we have to conform to the majorities.
The key to these majorities is held by the deputies, continued Casimiro Curbelo, for whom ASG “are important, undoubtedly, but so are the rest”.
In the 2019 elections ASG obtained three deputies, which it has revalidated four years later, and then they spoke “with both political forces”, alluding to PSOE and CC, and a government pact for the Canary Islands was made with the former.
Now, again with three parliamentarians, “they will call us these days and we will speak to form a parliamentary majority and that the Canary Islands have the certainty that they have a government that intends to work for the future of the citizens”, he added.
Asked about the possibility that the PSOE, the majority force in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, governs in a minority, Curbelo pointed out that the Autonomous Community “is lucky, because diversity and political plurality is good, that there has never been a an absolute majority, nor will there be one for a long time”.
The PSOE has won more seats than any other force, 23, although it has dropped two, and parliamentary logic suggests that the one with the majority will start the negotiations “but that does not mean in any way that they will bear fruit,” he stressed. the ASG leader.
In fact, “it is public and I am not inventing anything” that there is a parliamentary majority that is trying to settle with meetings between the Canary Islands Coalition and the Popular Party, Curbelo pointed out.
Asked if ASG would join this alliance, Casimiro Curbelo stated that “we have to get used to” the fact that parliamentary majorities conform according to “what comes out of the ballot box, and what came out of the ballot box came out: United Yes We Can disappears, NC-BC achieves 5 deputies, the PSOE drops 2 and the only political force of the outgoing government pact that remains is ASG, with 3 deputies”.
“We were useful at the time for the construction of a better Canary Islands, undoubtedly, and we can be so in the future. We are going to see what the negotiations are and what each political force is proposing”, he pointed out.
In a plural, diverse and extraordinary region like the Canary Islands, citizens “voted more deputies from the center right than from the center left, that is the reality that we have to accept with pain or without pain and from there we have to work from any sphere”, has continued Casimiro Curbelo.
Asked if he is in favor of establishing vetoes in political contacts, Curbelo recalled that “some at the time put red lines to United Sí Podemos and others to Vox” but he maintains that what he may not share is the strategy of a political party , for example when it rejects autonomy, decentralization and the formation of a plural State.
“Now, from the moment the rules of the game are defined and the citizens vote, there is no longer anything to say. Therefore, the red lines seem to me to be unfortunate from a democratic point of view ”, she underlined.
Regarding the advancement to July 23 of the general elections, Casimiro Curbelo has pointed out that it will precipitate “everything”, such as the inauguration of the autonomous parliaments and local corporations, and has assured that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “caught everyone with the wrong foot, including their own.”
Pedro Sánchez’s decision is legitimate because he has the powers to do so “but now we all have to run”, the ASG leader concluded. EFE