The National Executive of Nueva Canarias- Bloque Canarista (NC-BC) confirms that in its last meeting it has ratified Belén Machín as candidate to the Senate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa and Carmen Gámiz as candidate number 3 on the list of the Canaristas to the Congress of Deputies for the province of Las Palmas, a list that will be headed by the autonomous deputy Luis Campos followed in the second position by Teodoro
Sosa, mayor of Gáldar.
Both Machín and Gámiz, who in the last elections of May 28 ran as candidates on the lists of the Canaristas to the City Council of Teguise and the Island Council, respectively, have thanked the National Executive and the party colleagues in Lanzarote for the trust placed in them as candidates for the Upper House and the Lower House in the general elections of July 23.
“It is a true honor and responsibility to lead this nationalist and progressive candidacy, with the conviction that the island territories must have a mechanism and a space to channel the demands and problems that affect us,” said Belén Machín. “And even more so if we take into account the fact of double insularity, a condition that Lanzarote has, or the triple insularity that La Graciosa suffers,” he pointed out.
For her part, Carmen Gámiz has stressed that she is “taking a step forward with a clear idea: Nueva Canarias is the only political formation in Lanzarote that can bring together those who believe that the parties of Canarian obedience are the ones that best represent this people in Madrid; and those who believe that it is not enough to represent the Canary Islands and have their own voice, but that it is essential to fight for democracy, the freedoms won and the rights of the most vulnerable.”
Therefore, both candidates appeal to the vote of the entire society of Lanzarote, but especially, “to all those who consider it necessary to have a voice in Madrid and stop a possible ultra-centralizing and ultra-Spanish government.” Thus, they make a call “to the progressive voters of a lifetime who once voted for Alternativa Ciudadana; for Podemos; for Somos Lanzarote; or recently for Lanzarote en Pie or Más País.” In short, a call “to the doubly useful vote, of Canarian and progressive obedience of Lanzarote.”
“I also make a call to the voter who has always defended the vote for our people, for those from here, for the parties of the Canary Islands,” says Belén Machín as a candidate for the Senate. “We are the only party that truly defends the Canary Islands; the only formation that is truly consistent with nationalist values,” says the candidate for the Senate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa. “No vote for Nueva Canarias will serve to take the Spanish State back 45 years. On July 23 we choose the Canary Islands, we choose Lanzarote and La Graciosa,” she stresses.
