Santa Cruz de Tenerife, (EFE) and Manuel Domínguez the vice president.
The regional elections were won by the PSOE but without an absolute majority and without the possibility of reissuing the progressive pact led by Ángel Víctor Torres Torres, before which the CC and PP, the second and third political forces, have begun negotiations to form a government agreement.
Both add up to 34 of the 70 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, to two of the absolute majority, but they trust the support of the parliamentarian of the Agrupación Herreña Independiente (AHI), a traditional ally of the CC, and eventually of the Agrupación Socialista Gomera, which was part of from the previous executive.
The PP is awaiting the possibility of obtaining one more seat in the Lanzarote constituency in the final count, in which case ASG, the party led by Casimiro Curbelo, would no longer be essential for an absolute majority.
In the event that the PP adds that seat, it is still not clear if both parties would invite ASG to join.
Asked about this possibility, José Miguel Barragán, one of CC’s negotiators said: “It’s a good question for which I don’t have an answer right now.”
Nor was Poli Suárez, the PP negotiator, explicit, but he said: “We are not going to fool ourselves, things could change.”
The two parties have agreed in their first meeting that in an eventual government the CC leader, Fernando Clavijo, would be the president, and the president of the PP of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez, the vice-president.
They have also shown their willingness to include in the agreements the governance of insular and local institutions in which they have an absolute majority.
The other point of agreement has been the axes of the eventual common program: education, the REF, a “progressive” tax policy that helps to “relieve” family economies, territorial and energy sustainability, developing the new Statute of Autonomy and the self-government and simplify bureaucracy.
Neither the structure of the Government nor the presidency of Parliament have yet been agreed, issues that will be cleared up in the meetings that the two delegations will hold next week. EFE