SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The head of Sumar’s list for the Santa Cruz de Tenerife constituency, Alberto Rodríguez, announced this Thursday that if he is elected deputy in the General Elections he will resign “after 585 days”, just the time that, in his opinion, the “theft of the seat” by the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, in application of a sentence of the Supreme Court.
In a press conference in which he appeared accompanied by the number two of the candidacy, Carmen Pestano, he commented that in the recently ended Legislature “the votes that gave him his act were stolen and usurped from a part of the Canarian society” in Congress, specifically between October 22, 2021 and May 29.
Rodríguez has insisted that “they prevented different voices from being heard in an undemocratic way” and thus “managed to stop and silence” various initiatives related to the Canary Islands such as touristification, the search for tellurium, early attention, claims in the field, spills on the coasts, “human rights violations” among migrants or access to housing.
Along these lines, he has commented that it was an “unprecedented decision without legal support” and that caused “many issues to be forgotten in a drawer”, and for this reason, his current candidacy also responds to the fulfillment of a promise that was “to give the a tireless battle, legally and politically, to recover the voice of the Canary Islands”.
“We are people of our word, the people elected me and it must be the people who say if they want me to be in Congress or not,” he said.
Rodríguez has made it clear that after 585 days he will resign and leave his post to Carmen Pestano and has remarked that “the result is not written” and it is in the hands of the citizens “to look to the future with desire and enthusiasm and avoid a hateful past, cuts and discrimination”.
He also recalled that one of the “premises of Proyecto Drago is to “express and value the maturity of Canarian society”, with “self-esteem and self-love”, stressing that the Canary Islands are a “political subject with full right” to express their demands and “without asking permission”.
For this reason, he commented, they are in a coalition within Sumar, a group that includes “expressions from different peoples” in Spain and that is based on “mutual respect” and “basic lines” of a programmatic agreement.
Pestano, for its part, has shown itself to be “proud” to participate in an “exciting project” like that of Drago and Sumar because the Canary Islands “deserve dignified and fair representation”, warning that the islands and Spain “are no longer reduced to bipartisanship” and it is necessary to configure an institutional policy that “is more like” the people.
“We went out to win,” he added, while highlighting the role of the presidential candidate, Yolanda Díaz, as “the ERTE and data minister” and the one who is capable of reaching “agreements with all parties “.
