Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- Nueva Canarias (NC) will present 72 candidacies and more than 700 candidates for the next municipal and regional elections on May 28, with an electoral program that represents a “country proposal for a better Canary Islands ” with which to improve public services and recover sustainability criteria.
The program and the candidacies have been unanimously approved this Saturday by the party’s political council, its leader and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Román Rodríguez, who has insisted that NC-Bloque Canarista and NC Frente Amplio Canarista – “brands” with which it contests the elections to the Parliament and to the councils and municipalities, respectively – expects to obtain historic results.
Rodríguez has stressed that his party aspires to achieve in the next elections between five and seven regional deputies, at least 18 mayors (now they govern in 13), 200 councilors and revalidate the presidency of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, as well as obtain representation in those of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and even Tenerife, if he manages to close agreements that are still being negotiated on that island, since nominations can be submitted until April 24.
The political council has also decided to create a local electoral commission, has authorized the double presence in more than one list to seven of its candidates and has delegated to the national executive of NC the candidacies pending approval, explained Rodríguez.
Regarding the 83-page electoral program, he stressed that it responds to the challenges of the Canary Islands vis-a-vis Europe and the State, and defends the Economic and Fiscal Regime, the Statute of Autonomy and the character of the Outermost Region.
After having governed these four years in coalition with the PSOE, Podemos and the Gomera Socialist Group and assuming the vice-presidency of the Executive and the Ministry of Finance, Budgets and European Affairs, he has said that it has been a “difficult” legislative period due to different circumstances that they have already passed, so the party must now face the future with determination.
The leader of NC has recognized that there have been matters that have been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances and that therefore “it is time” to focus on the defense and improvement of public services, on Health, on the housing plan, and on developing a la income and citizenship law that reaches 40,000 family units and thus combat social exclusion and poverty on the islands.
Rodríguez has also stressed that it is necessary to recover sustainability criteria and bet on green hydrogen trains on the most populated islands, and that it will be essential to change the land law because the population in the Canary Islands cannot continue to grow at the rate of the last 25 years in which its population has increased more than double that of Spain as a whole and seven times more than Euskadi.
The way to stop this growth goes through the planning of the territory and having a development model, Rodríguez has had an impact on the problems of lack of services and resources that are already present on islands such as Lanzarote, where the population has increased by 111 percent. , or Fuerteventura, 180 percent, in these 25 years.
“The land law was approved by a majority and there are the consequences”, compared to the laws of the territory, of natural spaces and of guidelines, which went ahead unanimously, he recalled.
He has defended that the growth model must be “contained and sustainable” with policies such as those applied in the Veneguera ravine, in Gran Canaria, 27 years ago, when thousands of tourist beds were declassified to preserve that area, highlighted the NC leader. EFE