Guadalupe González Taño, twice brief

She experiences it as a setback, and in fact it irritated her deeply when she met it, but the truth is that now she almost laughs it off as she reminisces about it. When on Monday, May 29, she was preparing everything to carry out in just a few days the replacement of Oramas, who had won the regional seat the day before, Sánchez announces the immediate dissolution of the Cortes and the call for new generals for almost two months later. González Taño had breakfast with his daughter at his house in The Palm when he found out and was in momentary ‘shock’. The corresponding decree would be published the following day and his return to Madrid was annulled.

Although she had been away from politics for two years, González Taño, who has been president of the Town hall of La Palmaregional deputy during two legislatures and secretary of the Organization of CC, had decided to return to occupy the seat in Congress that corresponded to him as a nationalist number for Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the elections of 10-N of 2019 once Oramas opted to return to regional politics. Political and professional plans were collapsing again. The idea was to remain for the remainder of the theoretical legislature, until December according to Sánchez’s own forecasts, in the seat defending the Canarian agenda until then and in the meantime gain prominence in the face of a possible candidacy as head of the list for Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the next general The electoral advance has deprived him of both objectives, because substitution is no longer possible and because the imminence of 23-J has forced CC to an urgent solution in that candidacy, which has finally fallen to Cristina Valid. Taño, in any case, is outlined as number two on the list with few possibilities of achieving that seat that is so resistant to him.

She now says that she was practicing as a lawyer and since the option to replace Oramas arose, she began a preparatory process. First by fixing the situation with the clients at his law firm, very active in processing aid for those affected by the La Palma volcanoand at the same time taking a position on the political issues on the agenda for her incorporation as a deputy in Congress, where she planned to fight, above all, to demand from the Government the transfer to the Canary Islands of the pending budgetary funds and especially those referring to compensations to her island of origin to alleviate the effects of the volcanic crisis: 100 million investment and 1.5 for mental health of those affected that were achieved in CC’s budget pact with the Government and that, he assures, “they are sleeping the sleep of the just.”

Once he had done the most difficult thing, which was to take the step of returning to politics, he has decided to re-enlist again and wait for the list-making process for 23-J. Although CC has delayed until Friday the decision on the candidates that are not head of the list, it is assumed that González Taño will be second for Santa Cruz de Tenerife and believes that with the concentration of the vote in three large blocs in Canary Islands (socialist, popular and nationalist) have options to get the seat as it already happened in 2019. “I have made myself available to the party for whatever it needs, and in any case I will be fully involved in the electoral campaign,” he highlights before assuring that “he is a deputy that depends on many factors and in the current context, it is feasible” . He does not want to pronounce himself in this sense on the rupture of the negotiations with other nationalist and insularist formations for a common front in Madrid, but he does not see it as an insurmountable handicap to bring CC closer to the second seat for the western province, taking the first one for granted. .

Bibloquism of 2019

In her first experience as a deputy in 2019, everything was marked by political deadlock experienced in that six-month mini-legislature between the April and November elections, when the socialist triumph after the first of them (April 28) did not materialize in the investiture of Sánchez due to the differences between socialists and Podemos in the distribution of government areas. In that failed investiture, on July 23 and 25, González Taño and Ana Oramas voted against and demanded a “State pact” between socialists and the PP to which CC would join. The ‘bibloquism’ remained before the end of the term for another investiture attempt and the constitutional calendar forced new elections on November 10. González Taño’s journey as a deputy ended on September 9 with the automatic dissolution of the Parliament as no investiture had prospered. The complicated second seat of CC in the April elections was therefore inoperative since it vanished in in the following elections, where CC only managed a single position for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, staying her, as second on the list, quite a distance from repeating.

In the previous period he stood out for his activity during the barely six months that that frustrated legislature lasted and She is in seventh place as a deputy with the most initiatives and interventions. For the new time that he has not managed to start, he is aware that all parliamentary activity was going to be very marked by the elections that were going to be held in December and by the political dynamics resulting from the results of 28-M. “It was going to be a six-month electoral campaign,” he admits, but insisting that he would give himself fully, along with his partner Maria Fernandez (who is still a deputy for having replaced Oramas, she did, in the Permanent Deputation), in demanding compliance with the Canarian agenda and the Government’s budgetary commitments. But none of this has been possible given the evidence and the imminence of a 23-J that has disrupted the plans of all parties.