The Deputy Secretary for Implementation, Zósimo Darias, admits “disagreements” with CC but understands that the link will continue in 2023
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canarian Nationalist Party (PNC) warns that Canarian nationalism “has lost strength and political weight” in recent years, especially as a result of the division that led to the birth of Nueva Canarias (NC), with a drop in votes accumulated since the year 2000.
This is explained to Europa Press by Zósimo Darias, Deputy Secretary for Implementation, who points out that there is also a “loss of nationalist sentiment” in Canarian society that points to future prospects that “are not at all promising.”
For this reason, he understands that “it is very necessary” for nationalism to unite and work towards the next elections, first through an electoral coalition with CC and NC, which “is easy and can be reached”, and in the medium and long term, with the formation of a single party.
Darias points out that “we have to start working” and that is why, in the last PNC convention held a couple of weeks ago it was proposed that on each island there should be a representation of the party, “not to compete” with other nationalist parties but to that “this embryo begins to generate nationalist consciousness” and in the future a single federal political force can be formed that brings together all nationalist forces.
ORAMAS AND QUEVEDO “VAN POR LIBRE” AT THE CONGRESS
However, the last precedent of an electoral coalition, the last generals with CC and NC, “was not positive” because the two deputies, Ana Oramas (CC) and Pedro Quevedo (NC), “go for free” and the agreements ” they must be more serious “so that citizens respect political formations.
Darias understands that the electoral unity agreement “is possible, it only takes will and a work agenda” and that the three political forces feel “around a common program” that the PNC proposes to be the ‘New Century Manifesto’.
Regarding the absence at the convention of the secretary general of CC, Fernando Clavijo, or the president of NC, Román Rodríguez, he states that it was a meeting of “personalities” linked to nationalism and not political parties, and which was attended by, among others, the regional deputy Juan Manuel García Ramos, the former president of the Canary Islands Paulino Rivero or the president of AHI and regional deputy, Narvay Quintero.
Along these lines, he points out that the objective of the summit was to listen to “valid opinions” and with “freedom”, and they understood that those who are in a political organization in prominent positions “are more limited” – the former presidents of the councils of El Hierro and La Palma, Tomás Padrón and José Luis Perestelo, for example.
Regarding the PNC’s relationship with CC, he points out that they have been in an electoral coalition since 2006, although the integration agreement, signed in 2016, “is suspended,” although relations “are good” and it is normal for them to come together again in the next autonomous elections.
“We will have to call the congresses and see what path we take, but it is most likely that this agreement will be maintained,” he says.
MORE PROFITABILITY FROM GARCÍA RAMOS’S DEPUTY ACT
Darias does not hide that there are “agreements and disagreements” with CC, especially due to proposals and ideology and the demands of the bases themselves, “which demand more courage in defending nationalist approaches, including in the use of language, since sometimes they are used terms closer to regionalism “.
However, he believes that “the important thing is the Canary Islands, beyond the parties” and for that reason, although now “it has not been possible” and the integration between PNC and CC has not taken shape, he believes that “much progress has been made” in the face of to the future.
In addition, questioned about the role that García Ramos plays in the Canary Islands Parliament, he points out that he does “commendable political work” and “perhaps could be more profitable” although he understands that he must submit to the organization of the Nationalist Group.
“We continue to believe that it is one of the main assets of nationalism, it continues to have a lot of potential and any project would be proud to have it,” he says.
