LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, 31 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Coalition (CC) and the Popular Party (PP) will begin the official meetings this Thursday to confirm the Government of the Canary Islands and they will do so in Santa Cruz de Tenerife –in the parliamentary group starting at 10:00 a.m.– after holding telephone conversations .
This is how they have advanced, in statements to journalists, the national secretary of the Canary Islands Coalition Organization (CC), David Toledo, and the campaign manager, José Miguel Barragán, who together with the secretary of CC de La Palma, Nieves Lady Barreto , are the members of the negotiating commission approved by the National Executive Committee of CC.
All this, he said, Toledo after studying “in depth” the electoral programs of the different formations, with the exception of VOX, in order to see with whom they have “similarities and differences” in order to reach agreements in an “easier way”. .
For his part, the CC campaign manager, José Miguel Barragán, has qualified that the first meeting is with the Popular Party to explore the “first real possibility of reaching an agreement”, since after not adding the so-called ‘pact of las flores’, CC is “in a position to form a majority and will try.”
In any case, he pointed out that this “does not mean that obviously courtesy and the need” to know the other interlocutors “forces us to talk to everyone”, although he stressed that what CC is working on and exploring are what axes they could form part of a government program, for which reason he indicated that after this first meeting, a future calendar will be announced.
Although, he advanced, that before the announcement of the general elections for July 23 and that the institutions begin to be constituted as of June 17, it is intended to reach a government agreement in the Canary Islands “before reaching that date” , either for them or “if the PSOE succeeds, then the PSOE, but let the agreement be quick” so that he can also dedicate himself to the general election campaign.
Questioned if there have been official contacts with the PSOE, he has admitted that yes, but since they are the ones who have announced it, he understands that they are the ones who must indicate if they want them “informal, official, whatever they decide. That is their agenda” to add that from the CC they are reporting is theirs, that “it is public”, and he pointed out that “they do not” rule out “anyone” to speak.
“STABLE” MAJORITY
Barragán has stressed that the first meeting is with the PP to find out if an agreement can be reached and from there it will be seen “how to articulate meetings with the Agrupación Socialista Gomera (ASG) or with the Agrupación Herreña Independiente (AHI) or with both to continue advancing so that there is a stable majority”.
In any case, he added that there is also a piece of data pending official scrutiny to find out how the map of the autonomous Parliament in the autonomous constituency of Lanzarote will be definitively configured, where the PP has that “reasonable doubt that it can improve” its data, although he added that “needing or not needing more than one party in a pact– is a matter of which there is nothing written.”
In the meeting with the PP, he has admitted that they will also analyze the possibilities of reaching an agreement in town halls, although he stressed that “everything is open, it is the first official meeting.”
Asked if a possible pact between PP and VOX in Spain would affect a government in the Canary Islands between CC and PP, he said “no” because it is as if the nationalist formation “told the PP that it has to agree with the PNV because if the PNV later decides to support a government or such, then, I support the government depending on who it supports.”
In any case, he pointed out that the latter in Spain is a “hypothesis” and added that CC has put the “red lines to VOX” but the nationalist formation “is not” going to enter the Government of Spain.
