Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Canary Islands Coalition believes that it could obtain four deputies in Congress if the local forces that accompany it in the general elections on the platform that it leads once again arouse the same support at the polls on July 23 than in the regional and local elections on May 28: 80,000 votes.
This was stated this Monday in an informative meeting organized by the newspapers “La Provincia” and “El Día”, the head of the list of this electoral board for Las Palmas, María Fernández, who has based her speech on the importance of her party “is” in Madrid to prevent state parties “despise” the islands in the 30 votes that take place a week in the Lower House.
With the “red line” of not supporting a government where Vox appears, Fernández, who has been a national parliamentarian in the last legislature under the alternation agreement signed in 2019 with Nueva Canarias, which now runs alone, has assured that it that he intends to continue defending in Madrid, more than a Canarian agenda, is a feeling: “to project the Canary Islands in a global framework without discarding the roots and the past of the islands, which is what moves CC”.
And she will do it, she said, while maintaining her position as adviser to the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, where the nationalists have their own group after 28M, an election that, in her opinion, has shown that “they have come back stronger than never”, after the PSOE, “which is now calling for an electoral reform”, did everything possible in 2019 to “throw them out” of the island institutions.
María Fernández has stressed that, now that CC has the responsibility of running the Canary Islands, it will fight more than ever not to adapt to what others impose from the State, aware of its duty to shape the future of the islands from the archipelago itself. For this reason, her objective in these general elections will be “to be the vehicle for change in the society in which she lives and loves,” she said.
Having “free voices of the Canary Islands in Madrid so that no one treats those of us who are different in the same way” or “if we are not here, the Canary Islands will not be”, were the proclamations launched by Fernández in this informative meeting, which was attended by the next president from the autonomous community, Fernando Clavijo, and some of the people who appear in the pools to be in his government, such as Pablo Rodríguez or Esther Monzón, as well as a broad business representation of the archipelago.
Fernández has opined that both the PP and the PSOE have forgotten the Canary Islands “as long as they have not needed the CC”, which, in his opinion, shows that “Madrid is increasingly far from the Canary Islands”, something that was verified when the Populares withdrew “all” the bilateral agreements with the islands, such as the road agreement, or when the Socialists allowed the Arguineguín dock to become a “jail” for immigrants.
For this reason, CC goes to these elections in order to be “the corrective vote of the statist parties.”
“We do not want to govern Spain, yet, but we do want to condition who is going to do it”, asserted the candidate, who stressed that CC “is the only guarantee of the legal security of the REF”, a message that she has asked to be shared to that “nobody wipe the islands off the map” or “question their rights”.
For María Fernández, 23J “is at stake for the Canary Islands”, not CC, which has already “won” on the islands after 28M. EFE