The elected president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Peter Martinhas asked the PSOE to present him as a candidate for the Senate for the island in the elections generals on July 23, while Minister Héctor Gómez has offered to lead the list to Congress for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In an internal document to which EFE has had access, the PSOE of the Canary Islands informs its militants that the process for electing candidates for Congress and the Senate and advances the names of a series of militants and public officials who are interested in having “their names proposed.”
The option that Héctor Gómez repeat as head of the list for Santa Cruz de Tenerife was taken for granted in the socialist ranks and, in fact, in recent weeks the minister has made several visits to the islands of the western province both in institutional and party acts.
AND Pedro Martín’s interest in running for the Senate may respond to the risk he runs of Canarian Coalition and the PP agree to govern together not only the Government of the Canary Islands, but also the Cabildo de Tenerifewhich would make his second presidency in the insular corporation ephemeral, of only a few weeks, the ones that nationalists and popular people need to articulate a motion of censure and convene the plenary session in which to vote.
Martín himself has assured on his Twitter account that his intention is to combine activity in the Cabildo de Tenerife, where he will foreseeably act as spokesperson, with that of senator, if he is elected.
“My intention is to combine the -parliamentary- activity with the work in the Cabildo and contribute everything I can to a project in which I believe despite the difficulties, that of the PSOE”, said Martín.
Congress
In the case of Congress, They have offered to go on the PSOE list for the province of Santa Cruz together with Héctor Gómez the former Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Theresa Cross Ovalwho was dismissed at the beginning of the covid pandemic; Alicia Alvarez Gonzalez, Deputy Minister of Public Administrations of the autonomous community; and Margarita Pena Machinspecial delegate of the State of the Free Zone of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Also immaculate lionspokesperson for the PSOE in the Los Silos City Council until this last term; Alonso Suárez Lecuona and Luis Fajardo López.
Senate
As for the Senate, in addition to Pedro Martín, are interested in being candidates of the PSOE on 23J José Antonio ValbuenaMinister of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands; Isabel Garcia Hernandez, Counselor for Natural Environment Management of the Cabildo de Tenerife; the surgeon Jose Vicente Gonzalez Bethencourt, who was already a senator from 2004 to 2008 and from 2011 to 2015; and Jose Antonio Estevez Cabreracouncilor of El Rosario (Tenerife).
Also the current senator olivia delgado and the Director General of the Canary Islands Government Dependency, Marta Arocha Correa; as well as José Antonio González Torres and, again, Luis Fajardo.
In the province of Las Palmas, the PSOE has not transferred to its groups a document like the one that has been sent in Santa Cruz de Tenerife with leaders interested in going on the lists.
But it is taken for granted that Luc André Diouf (who was number 2 on the list headed by Caroline Dariaswho is emerging as mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the support of Nueva Canarias and Unidas Sí Podemos) and Ramón Morales will do the same to the Senate.
The name for the Senate list of Marta Saavedra, general director of Transparency and Citizen Participation in the Government of the Canary Islands, also sounds.
AND It remains to clear up the unknown of what he will do Angel Victor Torres in the event that, as it seems, a pact between the CC and the PP prevents him from continuing to preside over the Government of the Canary Islands: if he will accept the general offer of Pedro Sánchez to the regional presidents who do not repeat having a place in the lists of the Cortes Generales or if he will choose to lead the opposition in the regional Parliament.
In his first statements on the matter after the elections, a few weeks ago, Torres said that he would continue in the Parliament of the Canary Islands even if he becomes an opposition deputy.
