The Canary Islands PP It has been forced to reduce its regional congress to Sunday morning and telematically due to the restrictions of the pandemic. The new regional president of the formation, Manuel Dominguez, will be elected on the fast track by the delegates who will vote online both the report of the outgoing board of directors, as well as the presentation of the congress and the list that Domínguez presents to direct the popular canaries in the coming years. The regional conclave will thus follow in the footsteps of the island congresses that were held in 2021 and that were either telematic or mixed, that is, with part face-to-face and part through virtual formats.
When the congress was convened at the beginning of December, there was hope that the Covid would give a respite and could be face-to-face. The call is for 590 delegates, of which 472 are elected and 188 ex officio. But the unstoppable number of infections and the level 4 health alert in Tenerife, the island where the congress meeting is being held, has changed all forecasts and an eminently telematic congress has been organized in which they will only be in a hotel in the South of Tenerife the members of the organizing table and the leaders who are going to intervene, while the delegates and guests will connect via telematics to listen to the speeches and vote.
The president of the organizing committee of the congress, Helper Perez, assures that a change of dates had not been proposed, but rather to adapt the meeting to the health guidelines based on the evolution of the pandemic. “The most important thing is the safety and health of the attendees and that is why it will be done telematically despite the fact that our intention was to do it in person,” adds Pérez. When the Covid pandemic began, the PP approved specific regulations for the organization of congresses and telematic meetings and guarantee the validity of the vote of the delegates and delegates. In fact, all the games have had to adapt to this type of format forced by the Covid.
The members of the organizing committee, the table and the speakers will be at the hotel in the south of Tenerife where the congress was to be held. The forecast is that the regional president of New generations, Alexander Sanchez, and the outgoing general secretary, Pedro Suárez, that will take stock of the management report of the outgoing board of directors. Below are the authors of the paper Treatment for a dying economy, Carlos Ester and Gustavo Gonzalez, both former presidents of the free zones of the two capital islands, will present the conclusions of the same. After the presentation, the national general secretary of the PP will speak, Teodoro Garcia Egea, which has not yet officially confirmed whether it will come to the Islands or will intervene telematically. He will be followed in speaking by the outgoing regional president, Australia Navarro, and then the candidate to preside over the party, Manuel Domínguez, will present his project for the party and to the members of its board of directors. Once the delegates vote for Domínguez’s plan, he will close the congress as the new regional president and the conclave will be closed by the national president of the PP, Paul Married. Both in the case of García Egea and Casado, the organization is waiting for the two to move to the Islands, in the event that they are not in person, both will intervene by videoconference.
The delegates will have to vote four times: the members of the congress table, the management report of the outgoing executive, the paper and the members of the new party leadership: 22 for the regional executive committee and 10 for the Board of Directors . The guests – social organizations, unions, businessmen and other political parties – will be able to connect to hear the final speeches by Domínguez and Casado.
under the motto ready for change the PP opens a new stage in the Canary Islands after the convulsive presidency of Asier Antona and the interim of Australia Navarro, who has stepped aside because the national leadership of Genoa has opted for Manuel Domínguez to lead the party and prepare it for the 2023 electoral appointment. As number two, the best placed candidate is Poly Suarez, current insular president of Gran Canaria. Both have as their main challenge to recover a party that is not going through its best moment from the electoral point of view and that wants to consolidate itself as a benchmark for the center-right in the Archipelago.
