The spokespersons of the negotiating committees of the Canarian Coalition (CC) and the Popular Party (PP), José Miguel Barragán and Larry Álvarez, announced this Thursday that the agreement between the two political formations that will give stability to the Government of the Canary Islands in the next four years will be signed in Madrid before Thursday, July 5.
Both Álvarez and Barragán - at the end of the fifth meeting of the negotiating committees, held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife - indicated that they hope that tomorrow's meeting in Las Palmas, starting at 11:00 a.m., will be one of the last, if not the last, so that this weekend the presidents of CC, Paulino Rivero, and the PP, José Manuel Soria, meet and divide the ministries of the new regional Executive.
In tomorrow's meeting, they will address the pending issues: tourism, the autonomous police, "some loose ends" that remain from health and education issues, and they will consider how the parliamentary groups of the PP and CC should function in the next legislature. As Larry Álvarez stated at a press conference, in today's meeting there has been "harmony" in the topics discussed: equality policies, youth, culture and sports, and it has been agreed to carry out a diagnosis on population growth in the Canary Islands.
Likewise, the two committees have decided that the amendments that PP and CC will jointly present tomorrow to the statutory proposal in Congress, "form part of the agreement". In addition, the popular representatives have proposed that laws that "currently do not fulfill any purpose in the Autonomous Community" be modified and repealed, including the modification of the Territorial Planning Guidelines. The objective of this measure would be to "simplify the procedures in the autonomous Administration", Álvarez specified.
ACN Press