SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Agrupación Herreña de Independientes (AHI) has agreed not to renew the electoral alliance with the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) and will run alone in the next regional and local elections in May.
This decision, advanced by ‘diarioelhierro.com’, has been confirmed to Europa Press by the regional deputy Narvay Quintero, who, however, has specified that this change is made by “mutual agreement” with CC and the result of an “internal reflection ” after the “bad results” obtained in some institutions in the 2019 elections.
He has said that there are no “disagreements or discussions” with CC since it has complied with the agreements at all times, giving as an example that in the last Legislature they were part of the Government of the Canary Islands holding the Ministry of Agriculture.
Quintero believes that this decision “is good for the party and good for the island” although he makes it clear that they will “preferably” listen to CC in the event of post-electoral alliances since they are two “nationalist” formations.
It has not hidden that AHI has looked in the mirror of the Agrupación Socialista Gomera (ASG), with three deputies in Parliament, given that politics is “numerical” and the sum must be “find” to guarantee governability, beyond of ideological positions. “Although we do not like it, it is reality”, she has detailed her.
Along these lines, he has pointed out that in some way it returns to the historical position of AHI, which at certain times had “the key” to the regional government and knew how to assert the foundations of the non-capital islands.
Quintero hopes to return to being “the hegemonic party” in El Hierro, although he understands that “you have to work” to maintain the current seat because “nothing has been won” even though the presence of AHI in the Chamber has been beneficial for the island.
Faced with the electoral list, he has shown himself willing to lead it “if the party deems it convenient and the assembly ratifies it” –even any other institution–, a process that will be completed by the end of February.
