Coalición Canaria officially opened this Saturday the procedure for the election of the candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands for the 2027 regional elections. The National Political Council (CPN), the highest body of the Canarian nationalists between Congresses, approved the calendar that will regulate this internal process and which will culminate on October 3 with the election of the candidacy for the Presidency of the Government.
The national organization secretary of Coalición Canaria, David Toledo, stated that “Coalición Canaria today activates the process to elect the person who will lead the nationalist project for the Presidency of the Canary Islands in 2027, with a regulated, transparent procedure open to the organization’s bodies”.
David Toledo stressed that “the Canarian nationalists face this calendar with responsibility and commitment because the Canary Islands need a strong, own political project capable of defending this land against those who continue to treat it as an administrative periphery”.
The agreement approved by the CPN develops the procedure set out in the Statutes of Coalición Canaria and the Regulations that develop them. The calendar establishes that candidacy proposals can be formalized until September 28, 2026. Candidates must have the endorsement of at least 20% of the members of the National Political Council or, where appropriate, the support of the absolute majority of one or more Insular Political Councils.
The CPN will hold the session on October 3 for the election of the candidate for the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands. The vote will be secret and the elected person must obtain the support of three-fifths of the members of the National Political Council. Once the candidacy is proclaimed, Coalición Canaria will begin its electoral pre-campaign for the 2027 regional elections.
In the same meeting, the nationalists also approved the working team for the local and regional elections, which will have the secretary of Political and Electoral Strategy, José Miguel Barragán, as general campaign coordinator.
Unanimous support for Fernando Clavijo for the MV Hondius cruise ship
The National Political Council also showed its unanimous support for the national general secretary of Coalición Canaria and president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, for his management during the MV Hondius crisis. The nationalists endorsed the firm defense by the Canarian president of the interests of the Canary Islands and of Canarians in the face of an action by the State Government marked "by imposition and the absence of institutional loyalty".
David Toledo stated that "Fernando Clavijo defended the Canary Islands while others bowed their heads". The national organization secretary affirmed that "the president of the Canary Islands acted with responsibility, with firmness, and with the democratic obligation to prioritize the interests of this land over any political calculation by the State Government".
CC reproached the state Executive for acting "with an eye on how the world viewed us, but not on the Canary Islands" and denounced that a decision was intended to be imposed on the Canarian institutions without respect for the Government of the Canary Islands. David Toledo denounced that "the State tried to impose its criteria on the Canary Islands without dialogue, without institutional loyalty, and without the minimum respect for the institutions of this land".
The nationalists were especially critical of the Canarian minister Ángel Víctor Torres, whom they accused of having been part of the "disregard" for the Canary Islands. David Toledo maintained that "Ángel Víctor Torres not only allowed the contempt for the Canary Islands, but was part of it".
CC empowers its National Executive to make decisions in the face of "the crisis" with the State
The second-in-command of the Canarian nationalists warned that relations with the PSOE and the State Government are going through "a critical point" after the latest episodes of "disdain, snubbing, and lack of respect" towards the Canary Islands, its institutions, and the autonomous government.
The national secretary of Coalición Canaria stated that "the gravity of what has happened forces Coalición Canaria to analyze all scenarios and to act with the responsibility required by the defense of the Canary Islands." David Toledo assured that the CPN empowered the National Executive of Coalición Canaria this Saturday to adopt "any type of decision in the coming days," depending on the evolution of events and the response of the State Government.
Toledo pointed out that "Coalición Canaria will not look the other way in the face of a State Government that has crossed lines it should never have crossed." The national secretary added that "the coming days will be decisive to see if the PSOE rectifies or if it confirms that it has chosen the path of institutional contempt for the Canary Islands."
However, the national secretary of Organization recalled that CC already argued months ago that Pedro Sánchez should submit to a vote of confidence.
The nationalist leader stated that "the most convenient thing would be for the President of the State Government to submit to a vote of confidence to know if there is a legislature or not," something they are once again demanding after the investigations surrounding former socialist president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
"The Statute does not speak of aerodromes, it speaks of airport co-management"
Coalición Canaria rejected, in this same context, that the State Government uses the transfer of aerodromes as an excuse not to develop the Canary Islands' Statute of Autonomy. The nationalists denounced that the PSOE intends to "disguise as statutory compliance" a proposal that has nothing to do with airport co-management included in the basic institutional norm of the Canary Islands.
David Toledo stressed that "the PSOE knows perfectly well that the Statute of Autonomy does not talk about aerodromes, it talks about airport co-management." Thus, he assured that "the Canary Islands do not claim empty headlines or maneuvers to appear compliant, the Canary Islands demand seriousness and respect from the State for this land." The nationalist leader added that "the State Government is once again looking for a shortcut to not comply with the Canary Islands and to avoid the real development of our self-government."
In this way, he concluded that "the Canary Islands do not ask for privileges, they demand respect." The national organization secretary of CC affirmed that "the State Government does not dare to do with Catalonia or Euskadi what it intends to do with the Canary Islands," and warned that the Canarian nationalists "are not going to allow our self-government to be lowered by a millimeter."
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