Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE) Its legal services are looking for possible avenues of appeal against this “maneuver” that “distorts” the elections in the province.
The one who was going to be the head of the list for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alejandro Gómez, has acknowledged in statements to the media that they still do not know what has happened and they are also unaware of “what this maneuver is due to or who benefits” against “the only party politician who has strongly opposed Pedro Sánchez and his government”.
According to what the newspaper El Día published on Tuesday, Vox’s candidacy for Congress was not proclaimed because several of the members of the list resigned a few hours before the deadline established by the Provincial Electoral Board to correct errors and make modifications, with which the party did not have time to react.
This resignation of candidates, according to the information published, is related to the decision of the national leadership of the party not to include Rubén Darío Vega in the candidacy, the provincial deputy of Vox in the legislature that is now ending, to place Alejandro Gómez, currently councilor in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
However, Gómez has insisted in his statements that the party still does not know what has happened, although he has shown his “dismay” that “the third Spanish political force” is left out of the race.
“Legally, we are left in a position of total defenselessness, because we have found out everything from the press and we have not had the capacity to react,” he stated.
“And politically, a very serious situation is opening up, because in a context of enormous electoral competition, each seat counts and the party affected is Vox. The only thing we have to ask ourselves is who benefits from all this ”, he pointed out.
At the moment “the only thing we can verify is that Vox’s candidacy has not been proclaimed, we do not know the reasons”, but it is “striking and strange”, Gómez insisted.
For now, the party focuses on the electoral campaign without changes, although the visit of the party’s leader, Santiago Abascal, which was scheduled for this coming Sunday, “remains to be seen” and depends on “how events unfold.”
Vox’s legal services are studying possible avenues of appeal in Madrid to avoid their exclusion from the elections in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In the May 28 elections, Vox has entered several institutions on the islands for the first time, including the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council and the Tenerife Cabildo. EFE