The negotiating committees of Coalición Canaria (CC) and Partido Popular (PP) have advanced this Thursday in the formation of a government pact in the Canary Islands, in which the nationalist Fernando Clavijo would be the president and Manuel Domínguez the vice president.
The regional elections were won by the PSOE but without an absolute majority and without the possibility of re-editing the progressive pact led by Ángel Víctor Torres Torres, in the face of which CC and PP, the second and third political forces, have begun negotiations to form a government agreement.
Together they add 34 of the 70 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, two short of an absolute majority, but they trust in the support of the parliamentarian of Agrupación Herreña Independiente (AHI), a traditional ally of CC, and eventually of the Agrupación Socialista Gomera, which was part of the previous executive.
The PP is awaiting the possibility of obtaining one more seat in the Lanzarote constituency in the final count, in which case ASG, the party led by Casimiro Curbelo, would no longer be essential for an absolute majority.
In the event that the PP adds that seat, it is still not clear whether both parties would invite ASG to join.
Asked about this possibility, José Miguel Barragán, one of the CC negotiators, said: "It's a good question for which I don't have an answer now."
Nor was Poli Suárez, PP negotiator, explicit, but he said: "Let's not fool ourselves, things could change."
The two parties have agreed in their first meeting that in a possible Government the leader of CC, Fernando Clavijo, would be the president, and the president of the PP of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez, the vice president.
They have also expressed their willingness to include in the agreements the governability of the island and local institutions in which they have an absolute majority.
The other point of agreement has been the axes of the eventual common program: education, the REF, a "progressive" tax policy that helps to "relieve" family economies, territorial and energy sustainability, develop the new Statute of Autonomy and self-government and simplify bureaucracy.
Neither the structure of the Government nor the presidency of the Parliament are yet agreed, issues that will be cleared up in the meetings that the two delegations will hold next week.
