CC gives the green light to the electoral alliance with the PNV for the European Elections
The National Political Council approved this Friday the campaign team for some elections in which "the Canary Islands are playing to have a voice in Europe"
Canary Islands, March 8, 2024
Coalición Canaria (CC) and Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) will compete together in the Elections to the European Parliament to be held next June. It was the national Secretary of Organization of CC, David Toledo, who announced this Friday on the unanimous agreement of the National Political Council, the highest body between Congresses, in favor of the nationalist alliance.
In this regard, Toledo stressed that "the Canary Islands are playing to have a voice in Europe at a key moment." He also recalled that "in recent years the voice of the archipelago has been diluted in Europe, jeopardizing consolidated rights as an outermost region" and cited as an example "the European restrictions on air and sea transport derived from green taxes or the lack of EU responses to the migratory emergency in what is the southern gateway to Europe."
The nationalist leader assured that this alliance with the PNV "allows us to join efforts so that the Canary Islands continue to have a voice" and announced that "from today we will redouble efforts to raise awareness among Canarians about the importance of this appointment with the polls next June." The campaign committee, which will be led by José Miguel Barragán as general coordinator, and David Toledo as general coordinator in the islands, was also ratified today by the National Political Council.
The CPN analyzed the management of the first seven months of the Government presided over by Fernando Clavijo, who will face next week the first Debate on the State of the Canarian Nationality, DEN, of the Legislature. In this regard, the nationalists recognized "the management of a Government that has once again put the Canarians at the center of the policies and to recover the dialogue and consensus in the decision-making"
Toledo pointed to major agreements such as the signing of the Canarian Pact for Migration, signed by the vast majority of forces with representation in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, and which aims to demand from the State Government and the EU "diligence" in the management of a migratory crisis that "needs answers and that the archipelago cannot continue to face alone." The decree law of measures for the social and economic recovery of La Palma "in record time" is another of the challenges highlighted by the nationalists.
Likewise, the CPN unanimously supported the decision of the National Executive Commission and the Canarian Nationalist Group to promote a commission of inquiry into the plot known as the 'Koldo case' and its implication in the Canary Islands. Toledo stressed "that citizens deserve to know if there are connections or not between this case and the management of the previous Government of the Canary Islands presided over by the current Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres" and assured that "we are not doing anything that CC did not do in the previous legislature with the 'masks' case and it is nothing more than demanding transparency."
