Still pending in the Canary Islands the formation of the island councils and the regional government after 28M, the electoral machinery of the different political parties of the Islands returns to pick up pace for the general elections on July 23. The formations have already registered the lists of island candidates for the Congress of Deputies and the Senatewith a total of 460 names -247 holders and 213 substitutes-, who present themselves to the battle for one of the 26 Canary Islands seats that are at stake in the General cuts. The candidacies, published yesterday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) by the provincial electoral boards, are composed of some repeaters and by numerous debutants that try to bring a renewed air to the XV Legislature. Among the most persevering candidates is Carmelo Suárez, head of the list of the Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC), who has run for deputy without interruption since 1982, already adding 14 appointments to the polls.
In this call, 40.5% of the lists of candidates for Congress and the Senate are led by women. Most of the candidates are concentrated on the plates of the province of Las Palmas for the lower house, where seven of the eleven parties that compete have opted for a female to head the lists.
88 applicants for the province of Las Palmas and 77 for that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife are running for the Congress of Deputies, seeking to occupy one of the 15 seats in the chamber that correspond to the Archipelago – eight from the eastern province and seven from the western -. He PSOE He heads his list for Santa Cruz de Tenerife with Héctor Gómez, current Minister of Industry and who was spokesman for the Socialists in the Lower House for a little less than a year; while for Las Palmas he presents Dolores Corujo, who lost the Presidency of the Cabildo de Lanzarote in the last regional elections after the pact between CC and PP. Corujo is followed by Luc André Diouf, who has already held a seat in Congress, and in third and fourth place are two new faces on this list: Ada Santana, secretary of the Socialist Youth of the Canary Islands, and the former leader of the UGT and Deputy Minister of Employment of the Regional Government Gustavo Santana.
40.5% of the lists of candidates for Congress and the Senate are led by women
the plate of People’s Party In Las Palmas it is led by the former candidate for mayor of the Gran Canaria capital, Jimena Delgado, accompanied by Guillermo Mariscal as number two, until now general secretary of the PP in Congress. For Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the popular ones opted for José Antonio Rojas and Asier Antona, who is a senator by autonomous designation in this legislature. Vox returns to put Alberto Rodríguez in the starting position of the formation in Las Palmas in order to repeat the results of the 2019 elections, when he managed to win a seat. However, the Vox deputy for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rubén Darío, does not repeat this time and gives way to Alejandro Gómez.
For his part, Canary and New Canary Islands Coalition they failed to reach an agreement to repeat the electoral alliance they signed in the previous state elections with a view to joining forces. On this occasion, for the province of Las Palmas, CC turns to María Fernández, who was number two on the coalition list and agreed to the seat in the middle of the legislature, replacing Pedro Quevedo. For Santa Cruz de Tenerife CC registers Cristina Valido, a veteran militant of the nationalists who has replaced Ana Oramas and who is aspiring for a seat in Congress for the first time in her career. For their part, the Canaristas head the list in the eastern province with Luis Campos, who takes over from Quevado after renouncing to run again to dedicate himself fully to the Department of Tourism and Beaches of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council.
Add breaks into the political scene in this appointment with the polls with two Canarian candidates who come from Can: Alberto Rodríguez, who leads dragon project, and Noemí Santana, who remains in the purple formation and is now trying to make the leap into national politics after passing through the Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands. If the movement promoted by Yolanda Díaz reaps good results in the western province, Rodríguez would return to Congress after the president of the Chamber, Meritxel Batet, withdrew his deputy act in October 2021, after a Supreme Court ruling for some attacks on a police officer during a demonstration that took place in La Laguna in 2014, an act that Rodríguez has always denied.
In the territorial chamber The Canary Islands will have 11 senators -plus three of autonomous designation- for which 82 candidates are presented. For the Gran Canaria constituency, the PSOE repeats with Ramón Morales as head of the list and the Popular Party with Sergio Ramos, who failed to win the mayoralty of Telde on 28M. For Tenerife, the socialists turn to Pedro Manuel Martín, former president of the island council.
