The president of Coalición Canaria in Gran Canaria, Fernando González, considers that the possible candidacy of Juan Fernando López Aguilar for the Presidency of the Canary Islands Government is an "imposition" of the Spanish Socialist Party, "a decision announced long in advance and against which the Canary Islands Socialist Party has had no capacity to respond".
The island president of CC stated that not only is it not the preferred candidacy for the Canary Islands Socialist Party, but "not even Juan Fernando López Aguilar himself was interested in being the candidate".
The President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, assured last Saturday, during his speech at the rally he offered at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, that because he is an "honest, sensible and brilliant" person, he will not allow "Juan Fernando López Aguilar to leave the Government except for the Canary Islands". Although he did not formally announce his candidacy, the head of the Spanish Executive expressed his intention that this election be, "democratic, like the rest of those adopted, because it is a formation where everyone chooses one and not one chooses the others".
The candidacy of the current Minister of Justice "is an idea that had been rolling around for some time", and that according to González has had "some reluctance from the Canary Islands PSOE", but that in the end "has been imposed because whoever commands, commands". González could not explain what this "imposition" is due to, whether to "internal reasons of Zapatero's government's own recomposition or to other types of reasons".
ADVANTAGE FOR NATIONALISM
In any case, "if it is definitively confirmed" that López Aguilar will be the socialist candidate for the regional government, Fernando González assured that this candidacy would give "some advantage" to Coalición Canaria, since the minister "gives the impression that he is going to represent the state position of the Socialist Party" and that, "nationalism gives it more possibilities, leaving it ample room to defend the positions of the Canary Islands, which is ours".
In that sense, from an electoral point of view, CC "benefits from a candidate like Juan Fernando López Aguilar who is obviously going to dispute the most Spanish electorate and, in the nationalist field, leaves the space more open".
González clarified that Coalición Canaria is indifferent to the socialist candidate for the Canary Islands Presidency, although he was surprised by "the imposition strategy that has been imposed from Madrid on the Canary Islands Socialist Party". "But that is a problem for the PSOE that we do not want to enter," he added.
The island president of CC recalled that Coalición Canaria is responsible for choosing a candidacy in the month of December, in a process in which the corresponding decisions will be made. Until then "we are not going to advance any type of piece," he stated.
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